In this lesson, students learn about multicultural holidays celebrated in winter: Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year. Students will document their experiences in a journal. A lengthy list of books for each holiday is provided.
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As some of the foundational texts for beginning readers, fairy tales are a staple of many classrooms. This lesson allows students to engage with fairy tales from different regions around the world and compare important cultural elements of these stories.
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In this lesson, students will begin to understand the concept of maps by describing the path that Little Red Riding Hood took on the way to Grandma's house.
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This lesson will incorporate the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are, student research on wild animal environments, and green screen technology.
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In this lesson, students read a folktale. The teacher models the thinking and work required to recount the story and determine the lesson. Students create story maps of the text that show the major events and the lesson in the text.
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Students will learn how to do basic research on animals that they have read about in a Jan Brett book.*remix includes her website, comp question, and Pebble Go research
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In this lesson, students will use the acronym FANBOYS to recall the coordinating conjunctions and practice using them to create compound sentences in order to master this technique in their writing.
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Students will examine several documents related to the life of Solomon Northup, whose life story is told in his autobiography Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River in Louisiana.
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