Y to i - Students read and sort words that involve changing y to i.
Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic - This lesson, conducted in a workshop format, helps young writers bring greater focus to their writing. Students use a timeline to break a larger topic into several events or moments; then, each student selects an event to write about from the timeline. Students first work with a whole-class topic, then apply this strategy to self-selected topics. Students share their writing and respond constructively to one another's efforts. Finally, teacher–student conferences help students incorporate feedback and work on specific weaknesses.
Writing Our Story Using a Flow Map - In this lesson, students will write details that support a main idea to develop their informational paragraphs using information from their research.
Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing - In this lesson, students will finish putting together their informational paragraph using a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. Then SWBAT use peer editing to improve each other's work.
Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing - In this lesson, students put together thier informational paragraphs using a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. Then use peer editing to improve each other's work.
Writing Our Own Stories - In this lesson, students take their research from their Tree Maps and Circle Maps and use it to create their own piece of expository text on sharks.
Writing An Opinion Based on Facts From a Text - Students will answer questions about key details in an informational text; Students will develop an opinion based on key details in an informational text; Students plan a paragraph that states their opinion and cites evidence to justify their opinion about an informational text.
Writing An Opinion Based on Facts From a Text - In this lesson, students learn how to start writing opinions by using facts from the story. This lesson is laying the foundation for citing evidence from the story.
Writing a Friendly Letter to Our Favorite Author - Students implement peer editing strategies when writing a friendly letter to a famous author.
Work Out Together - Students determine the author's point and identify reasons the author gives to support his or her point.
Word Wizards: Students Making Words - This lesson begins with a read-aloud of Word Wizard by Cathryn Falwell, and then guides students through an active, hands-on activity in which they learn how to look for patterns in words and are encouraged to become "word wizards" themselves, making new words by adding letters or changing the sequence of letters.
Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers - This lesson provides a framework for introducing students to short-vowel word families.
Word Play (PBS) - Students put a new word on the stage and act out three ways to use it.
Word Families Song by Jack Hartman - Fun, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic word families song by Jack Hartman that focuses on blending and word families.
Word Detective - In this lesson, students will find words following certain spelling patterns and sort them.
Who Stole the Cookies From the Cookie Jar? - Students indicate the proper punctuation for each sentence in a song. Students will tell which punctuation mark belongs at the end of the sentence and recall the names and sounds of letters.
Where did you learn that? - Students sort information that was obtained from pictures and diagrams, from that obtained from text when reading an informational piece.
What playground toy should the principal buy for us? - Students use a graph as evidence in a persuasive letter. SWBAT evaluate statements to determine which statement is true, citing evidence in the graph.
What Do I Do With A Verb - In this lesson, students do an activity where they use the correct form of a verb to convey the right tense in a sentence. Proper use of verbs and verb endings to convey tense is a huge issue in first grade, and this lesson is designed to help students learn how to use verbs.
What Are The Six Syllable Types ? - Students identify which type of syllable a particular word is and then be able to sort those words into the correct category on a tree map.
What's for Dinner? - Students identify the author's point and the reasons that support the point in the text.
We Like to Move it Move it - Students identify the author's point and their reasons for the point.
Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction - This research project is designed for primary students to engage in nonfiction text, in both print and digital format. Students begin by formulating questions on a subject (in this case, weather), then classify questions into topic areas.
Water, Water, Everywhere - Students use several comprehension strategies in order to better understand the text.
Vocabulary Lesson - This lesson teaches students in first grade new oral vocabulary, increased word recognition, and correct spelling of words.
Using Personal Connections to Build an Understanding of Emotions - Students begin making connections to emotions by verbally expressing personal experiences that have evoked happiness or sadness. Subsequent discussions encourage them to make more general observations about human emotions; and to identify and express their own current feelings.
Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words - This lesson uses Eric Carle's Have You Seen My Cat? predictable text and a repetitive format to help students learn high-frequency words. Students develop fluency as they participate in a choral reading of the predictable text.
Understanding Vocabulary Instruction - This module shows the nature of vocabulary, how to select words to teach, and some evidence-based approaches for teaching them.
Theme Poems: Using the Five Senses - Students will use sensory language while writing poems to accurately convey to the reader what they are experiencing Analyze their use of sensory language by incorporating peer feedback in response to their theme poems
Theme in Princess and the Pea - Students will get exposure to a folktale and determine the theme in Princess and the Pea.
The Little Red Hen and Beginning, Middle, and End - In this lesson, students are practicing their listening skills as the teacher reads the story. The students will then make a matchbook activity where they write about the events in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts - Students will find out in this lesson in which they examine their prior knowledge about frogs, make predictions, and verify their predictions through research on the Internet.
The Central Message in a Swedish Folktale - In this lesson, students will engage in a cultural experience as they look for the central message in a Swedish Folktale.
The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing - Go Away, Big Green Monster!—Ed Emberley’s tale about a scary, multicolored monster—is used to help students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills.
The Best Day Ever - Students write an engaging personal narrative using temporal words.
Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World - Students will respond to open-ended questions using support from language in the read aloud text.
Teach Your Monster to Read (Letter sounds, blending, & reading sentences) - A progression from letter recognition and sounds to reading sentences. An interactive game to help students learn letter sounds, to blend words, and to read sentences.
Teacher Modeled Shared Reading Video - Teacher models how to appropriately administer shared reading
Teacher Modeled Interactive Read Aloud Video - Teacher models how to appropriately administer interactive read alouds
Teacher Modeled Blends & Digraphs Video - Teacher models differentiation instruction for teaching blends & digraphs
Teacher Conferences and Writing Our Good Copies - In this lesson, students will be able to take and implement feedback from the teacher in order to improve their writing.
Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images - In this lesson, students begin by exploring a familiar character (Curious George) by using books, a website, and a graphic organizer.
Syllable Dividing Rules For Multisyllabic Words - Students divide a multisyllabic word into its syllables based on syllable dividing rules.
Stretching Sentences - Students use silly bands to expand sentences by adding details and by using correct punctuation and grammar.
Stories Read Aloud by Accomplished Actors and Actresses - Developed by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favorite children’s books. Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube. Students are able to hear and view stories.
Speaking and Listening While Learning Sight Words - In this lesson, students will be able to decode and spell their sight words as well as learn the meaning of the word and use the words in a speaking and listening activity.
Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences - In this lesson, students will use the information from their double bubble map to write complex contrasting sentences using a connecting word.
Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences - Students will use the information from their double bubble map to write complex contrasting sentences using a connecting word
Spacing Between Letters and Words - Graph Paper Activity - In this lesson, students improve ability to space evenly between letters and words.
Singular or Plural - In this lesson, students will use correct subject-verb agreement in a sentence.
Similarities and Differences in Two Text About Deserts - Students locate similarities and differences between the author's perspective in two text about the desert.
Similarities and Differences in Two Text about American Leaders - Students identify similarities and differences regarding the author's perspective on two text about the same topic.
Similarities and Differences in Text about Apples - Students determine similarities and differences in the authors' perspectives when reading two text about apples.
Silent e - Interactive lesson that helps students recognize short and long vowels that have the silent e.
Shhh! Bear's Sleeping: Learning About Nonfiction and Fiction Using Read-Alouds - Students will gain knowledge by learning about the hibernation of bears and by exploring the differences between fiction and nonfiction
Seven Fat Cats - While reading the story "Seven Fat Cats", students will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences - Students will use prior knowledge to categorize words as parts of speech.
Segmenting with a Bead Train - Current reading research says that children need to practice segmenting and blending every day in order to become an effective reader. This lesson will show you how to incorporate segmenting into your daily phonics lesson.
Scientists Sort/Categorize: Living or Non-Living? - In this lesson, Scientists Sort/Categorize: Living or Non-Living?
Scientists Sort/Categorize: Living or Non-Living? - In this lesson, studnetsuse their observations of plants and animals to sort items into the categories living and nonliving.
Scientists Share Their Learning - In this lesson, students learn to effectively communicate an example of how an animal uses an external part to meet its needs.
School House Rock Prepositions - School House Rock Video on Prepositions.
Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar - Unpack Your Adjectives Music Video - Classic Adjective Song from Schoolhouse Rock.
Rude Giants / Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series. - In this lesson, students use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Retelling Stories Using Key Details - Lesson Plan for Retelling Stories Using Key Details for Miss Nelson has a Field Day.
Recognizing syllables by counting vowel sounds - In this lesson students will learn how to recognize syllables by counting the vowel sounds.
Reading the Character’s Emotion - In this lesson, students identify both words and word phrases in a literary text which suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Reading the Character’s Emotion - In this lesson, students will identify both words and word phrases in a literary text which suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy - Students will demonstrate comprehension of an informational article read from a magazine using the 3-2-1 strategy.
Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts - This lesson teaches students how to formulate research questions and write letters. The lesson uses the nonfiction picture book Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies to present factual information about blue whales and the fiction picture book Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James to demonstrate how a letter can be used to ask questions and foster inquiry about blue whales.
Readers Theatre With Jan Brett - In this lesson, students interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Readers Theatre that is performed for an audience. Students make predictions about the story prior to reading and listen to a read-aloud of the story. Postreading, they make observations about the characters, setting, and plot.
Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays - Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. Great fluency practice.
R-Controlled Vowels - Modules that target how to teach r-controlled vowels.
Prepositions Sing Along Song - Catchy song that teaches students about prepositions.
Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts - This lesson supports teachers in introducing nonfiction to their students and using it for informational purposes. Students develop an understanding of nonfiction through peer interaction and hands-on experiences with books.
Poetry Playground - Poetry Playground created by poet, Kenn Nesbitt. You will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, classic children’s poetry, games, poetry lessons and activities, plus a rhyming dictionary, and videos.
Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum - This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson are taken from the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes.
Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum - This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. Authentic literature provides an excellent framework for teaching decoding and spelling. The words for this lesson are taken from the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Students practice the generalizations by reading nursery rhymes that include words with the same vowel pairs. Students then make words from the book in an online activity.
Pasture - In this lesson, students identify the feeling or senses suggested by words or phrases in a poem.
Oral Reading Fluency Passages for Progress Monitoring - Ongoing Progress Monitoring in Oral Reading Fluency for Grades 1-5.
Nouns - In this lesson, students will use nouns in a sentence.
Nonfiction Interactive Read Aloud - Modules targeting read alouds which are an essential strategy for building knowledge of the world and of author's craft.
My Report About Frogs - Read alouds and structured conversations are used to guide students in the process of using an informational text as a learning tool (i.e., gathering facts from what an author has written). Students then use what they have learned from a mentor text to create their own “teaching text.”
My Favorite Word: Fabulous - This video segment from Between the Lions is a table top puppetry song that illustrates synonyms for the word “good” using a stage setting and opera singers. The featured synonyms for the word “good” include: fabulous, marvelous, splendid, fantastic, terrific, and swell. The soloist's favorite from this list is fabulous. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Vocabulary, Language and Vocabulary Development, and Phonological Awareness.
MobyMax Early Reading Skills and Stories - Adaptive progression through skills for students with individualized plans of instruction. Starts with reading skills and progresses through early stories.
Miss Nelson is Missing-Key Details - This lesson uses the book Miss Nelson is Missing to locate and record key details about story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme) in the story.
Medial Sound Sorting - Students sound-out CVC words and sort the words by the medial vowels.
Main Idea and Supporting Details - Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in the story Counting on the Woods to better understand and summarize what they are reading.
Look Who's Talking - Point of View - This is an introductory lesson to learning who is speaking in a story.
Long u - Students read, sort, and use long u words in a sentence.
Location - Students will use prepositions to write complete sentences describing location of objects.
Literature Response in Primary Classrooms - This is a five step guide for setting up a framework for ongoing written literature response with primary students, designed to help teachers “set the stage” for ongoing literature response, the procedure begins with drawing/labeling and moves through increasingly complex writing requirements that address higher-order thinking skills and foster student creativity.
Listen To and Follow Directions - In this lesson, students listen to and follow directions to create a project.
Listen! - Students self-monitor their reading with a plastic pipe "telephone".
Lights, Camera, Action! - In this lesson, students will identify the verb in a sentence and formulate their own complete sentence when given a verb.
Let’s Build a Snowman - In this lesson, students will learn that building a snowman is one way to provide food for birds and animals during the winter.To continue to build students' knowledge of the topic, they listen to additional fiction and nonfiction books and view a website about animals in winter.
Letters from Characters - In this lesson, students will write a convincing opinion piece by stating a character's opinion, supporting the opinion with details, and providing a closing statement to show their comprehension of the characters' point of view.
Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion With Amazing Grace - Students will have a conversation about Amazing Grace in small groups. Students will follow guidelines for their conversations, such as listening while others are speaking, respecting opinions and ideas of classmates, following the conversation and responding appropriately, disagreeing politely, and finding evidence in the book to support their answers.
Let's Plant a Garden with Frog & Toad - Students will discuss, compare, and contrast the differences of toads attempt to plant a garden to the actual needs of a developing seed.
Let's learn together - Students will collaborate in a research project and publish their information in a book.
Let's Describe! (Adjectives Lesson) - Students will learn what an adjective is and how to categorize adjectives using an interactive sorting game.
Lessons about Making Predictions with Informational Text - In this lesson, students make predictions from the headings used in informational text. Students then use the text and pictures to confirm their predictions.
Lesson Plans for NOISE IN THE NIGHT level L - Students will read words with inflectional endings through Guided Reading.
Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs - In this lesson, students will recognize and use strong verbs in their reading and writing.
Learning to Recognize and Use Strong Verbs - In this lesson, students will recognize and use strong verbs in their reading and writing.
Learning to Infer Using Pictures - In this lesson, students will make inferences using picture prompts and an anchor chart with clue vocabulary.
Learning the Difference Between Common and Proper Nouns - In this lesson, students will differentiate between common and proper nouns as well as write those nouns correctly.
Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo - This lesson uses the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin to teach students word identification strategies. Students learn to identify rimes or word families and apply their knowledge to the decoding of new words.
Learning About Subheadings and Bold Words (Nonfiction Informational Texts) - In this lesson, students use subheadings to find the main idea and SWBAT use context clues to determine the meaning of bold words in the text.
Junie B. Jones Introduces Literacy Mystery Boxes - In this unit, the teacher reads aloud selections from Junie B., First Grader (at last!). Students discuss the text with a partner and then individually compose sentences about key events from the story. Each student also creates and adds items to a mystery box, or a box that holds items or pictures referenced in the story. After students have listened to the entire story, they use their mystery boxes to retell the story to a classmate.
Jaw Dropping Vowels! - Students determine what their mouth and tongue are doing when forming vowels and become more flexible with using different vowels in words.
It's All In The Past. - In this lesson, students will say a sentence in the past tense, using regular verbs.
Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research - Through the use of nonfiction, students can be encouraged and challenged to learn more about favorite animals and to document their findings with graphic organizers.
Introduction to the Bridge Map (Analogies) - In this lesson, students write and state analogies using a bridge map.
Introduction to the Bridge Map - Students will write and state analogies using a Bridge Map.
Introduction to Accountable Talk With "Big Anthony and the Magic Ring" - In this lesson, students participate in conversations with diverse partners, follow agreed upon rules for discussion, build on their partners talk through several exchanges, ask questions about key details in the story, and clarify ideas that aren't understood.
Introduction: Reading the Emotion - In this lesson, students identify opposite feeling words from a literary text which suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Introducing Practice with TH and TH! - Students differentiate between the most common digraphs and will be able to create the sounds appropriately when reading or writing.
Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine word-skill work with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues.
Improving Poor Spacing Between Letters and Words - Suggestions and activities for improving poor spacing between letters and words.
Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance - Students will participate in shared and choral reading. The lesson provides students the chance to focus on their fluency and comprehension.
http://betterlesson.com/lesson/615214/presenting-the-patterns-sharing-our-products - Students will look for patterns in the sky and create a digital product and share their work with one another.
http://betterlesson.com/lesson/555514/student-teacher-conferences-and-writing-our-good-copies - In this lesson, students implement edits to strengthen their informational paragraph writing with guidance and support.
How Do Scientists Observe, Record, and Describe? - In this lesson, students will make and communicate their observations by adding drawings and clarifying ideas.
How Do I Make A Closing Sentence? - In this lesson, students will learn to create a closing sentence and match closing sentences to paragraphs.
Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction - Students practice matching rhyming words using picture cards and apply phonological awareness
Hear It, Think It, Say It - A Blending Activity - In this lesson, hear segmented sounds, blend the sounds together, and state the entire word.
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes - A Phoneme Segmentation Lesson - In this lesson, students use their bodies to tap out and segment words.
Guided Reading Strategies with Henry & Mudge - students read Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night as a whole group. During the whole group instruction, the teacher introduces the story and models a questioning strategy.
Gingerbread Phonics - This lesson uses familiar words from The Gingerbread Man to help early readers learn letter–sound correspondence.
Getting to Know You Bags - In this lesson, student talk about themselves, speaking in complete sentences as they discuss what they've brought in their "Getting to Know You Bag".
Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime - In this lesson, Students will be able to recognize the ig rime in words, find ig words in literature, use the ig words that they learn in their own writing.
From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories - In this lesson, students use factual information gathered from the Internet as the basis for creating a nonfiction story. Story elements, including setting, characters, problem, solution, and endings, are then used as a structure for assembling students' ideas into a fiction story.
Frog and Toad Are Friends - The Letter - Students describe the characters in the story and also write a friendly letter from Frog or Toad's perspective.
Fluency Passages for Progress Monitoring - Student fluency passages that can be used to monitor fluency progress.
Fluency Instructional Routine: Read Irregularly Spelled Words - Students will practice reading irregularly spelled words.
Finger Spaces Between Words - A video to help students learn how to make finger spaces between words when writing and editing writing to double check before publishing writing.
Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm - As students read Doreen Cronin's Diary of a Worm in this lesson, they learn to separate the facts from the fictional details.Students explore the illustrations, fictional details, nonfiction details, and captions and speech bubbles.
Events that Change Characters - In this lesson, students will be able to explain the event that changes the character's behavior in the story.
Easycbm Fluency Progress Tool - Tool for administering benchmarks and progress monitoring for fluency skills.
Down with Nouns - Students will learn nouns by using an interactive sorting game.
Dividing Large Words Using Syllable Dividing Rules - Students decode and spell words based on the rules of syllable dividing.
Digraphs Practice - Students recognize and produce consonant digraphs in words to make decoding faster and more accurate.
Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension - Good readers demonstrate comprehension of text using a wide variety of strategies. Making personal connections to stories is one way to develop deeper understanding of both character and theme.
Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow - Through multimodal activities, students will explore key elements of design such as color, shape, size, texture, density, and layout to understand and appreciate how these elements combine to convey meaning in Little Blue and Little Yellow, by Leo Lionni.
Creating Our Introductory Sentences - In this lesson, students select from a menu of strategies and combine them together in order to create an interesting introduction to their story.
Creating Class Rules: A Beginning to Creating Community - This simple shared-writing activity can establish a foundation for ongoing community-building in the classroom. It engages students in thinking about the process of learning and the behavioral and community needs which support a productive classroom environment.
Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity - Students write simple cinquain of their own as a follow-up to a subject they have been exploring in class. Students will identify words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Comparing Words:Long i and Long u - Students sort long i and long u words.
Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood Text" Sets - This lesson plan features an example of a cumulative literary experience or “literature unit” structured around a text set made up of conceptually-related fiction and nonfiction for reading aloud and for independent reading.
Comparing and Contrasting With "Then and Now" - Students compare and contrast key ideas and details from two informational texts on the same topic. Students write a structured informational paragraph to report out their analysis of the texts.
Comparing and Contrasting the Two Stories using a Double Bubble Map - Analyzing two versions of the same story by comparing and contrasting two Goldilocks stories.
Comparing and Contrasting the Two Stories using a Double Bubble Map - Students are going to be comparing and contrasting two stories using a double bubble map. Students will decide who is telling the story at various points.
Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences - In this classroom project, students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity, focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events.
Choosing One Word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein’s “Sick” - With support, students will read Shel Silverstein's "Sick" aloud and summarize the poem. Students will read and explore different types of poetry
Children Book Read Alouds by Famous Performers - Read to Me features popular children’s books being read by famous performers. There are activity guides with hands-on ideas, discussion questions, and lesson plans that can easily be adapted to the Common Core State Standards. Entirely free, the site is colorful and engaging.
Characters and Setting With "Where The Wild Things Are" - Students will describe the characters and setting in the book "Where The Wild Things Are."
Character and Setting Pyramids - In this lesson, students will practice accountable talk with a partner to describe and write about the characters and setting in a story. Students will create an illustration pyramid to go along with their written work.
Cause and Effect with "Jimmy's Boa" Day One - In this lesson, students will be able to state the cause and effect relationships for the first portion of the story as well as answer questions using text evidence.
Cause and Effect With "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" - This lesson will focus on listening comprehension, speaking and listening, and writing cause and effect relationships. Students will verbalize and will write cause and effect relationships by using the book "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake".
Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds - Students will ask and answer questions about key details during the read-aloud.
Can You Guess the Rhyme with Miss Spider's Tea Party? - In this lesson, students match two words that rhyme. Student-friendly Objective: I can find a word that rhymes with another word.
Building Sight Word Knowledge - Modules that target teaching and providing adequate practice with high frequency words so that they become sight words.
Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation - students engage in games and chants to recognize the same sounds in different words. Students match objects with the same beginning or ending sound, identify whether a given sound occurs at the beginning or ending of a word, and connect phonemes with graphemes.
Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together - Book Buddies is a program which pairs up a child from a primary class and a child from an intermediate class. In this lesson, students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy and publish it using an online tool.
Blends & Digraphs - Differentiated reading instruction modules that targets blends and digraphs.
Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip - This lesson is designed to help students learn new vocabulary by taking them on virtual adventures that replicate field trips.
A Phonics Lesson on Steroids - "The o-e rule" - Students segment and blend words orally with the long o sound and be able to decode and write words with the o-e pattern.
Answers about the Tropics (Informational Text) - In this lesson, students will learn from context and answer questions about what they read.
Animal Study: From Facts to Fiction - This lesson describes how to use selected fiction and nonfiction literature and careful questioning techniques to help students identify factual information about animals.
All About Me - In this lesson, students will create their own autobiography about themselves.
A Funny, Scary, or Sweet Story - Students write a narrative using temporal words.
Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey - These activities provide a foundation for using nonfiction resources for developing and answering questions about gathered information. Using a wide variety of nonfiction literature, students learn to sort, categorize, and read books to begin the information-gathering process.
Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon - Students read rebus versions of nursery rhymes online and identify the main character in each rhyme. Then, during a shared reading of the Big Book The Enormous Watermelon, they locate the nursery rhyme characters within the story.
Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs - This lesson is designed to help students better use their vocabulary by teaching (or reviewing) what verbs are and to then help them access verbs they already know and use them in sentences.
A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry - Students will identify words in read-aloud books that help make the story appealing.
A and An Song - "A and An Song" - English Lesson for "A and An" - Rockin' English Song to help students understand when to use A and when to use An as articles.
"Put 'EmTogether" Song - Conjunctions and Compound Sentences - This is a Grammarheads rock video to help teach about conjunctions and compound sentences. Conjunctions join sentences that are related. The most common conjunctions are listed. This is a great resource to introduce and/or review conjunctions and compound sentences in the elementary classroom.