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- Tacky the Penguin
- After reading the story, Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester, the students will write their own Tacky story. The students will brainstorm ideas before getting started. Next each student will write a rough draft. After the rough draft, the students will proofread and edit their work. Then the students will type their story and illustrate the pictures.
- Author: Tonya Williams
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Butterfly cycle
- Students will understand the life cycle of the butterfly and create various art activities that would model metamorphosis.
- Author: Becky Woolard
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- Fairy tales: Another point of view
- This lesson is on comparing and contrasting (alike and different) two different versions of The Three Little Pigs. Students will use the original fairy tale The Three Little Pigs previously learned in the lesson “Fairy Tales” and compare it to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This story gives the wolf's point of view.
- Author: Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- The Farm Concert
- This lesson teaches basic print awareness along with animal names and sounds through guided reading and the use of a graphic organizer.
- Author: Kelly Brandon
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–1)
- Inching Through Oral Language for ESOL Students
- This lesson will use the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to help the student use clear and precise language to demonstrate comprehension.
- Author: Angela Goldberg
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–1)
- The Little Yellow Chicken
- The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.
- Author: diane williams
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Lucky Ladybug Doubles
- This lesson will involve students in using symmetry and doubling of numbers 1 through 7 to make ladybugs.
- Author: Alta Allen
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–1)
- Mixing colors with Little Blue and Little Yellow
- This is an integrated lesson based on a French book entitled Petit Bleu et Petit Jaune (Little Blue and Little Yellow) by Leo Lionni. Within the lesson, students will experiment with various colors to create new colors and eventually write their own version of this story.
- Author: Lisa Tartaglia
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–1)
- Odd & Even Exploration
- This lesson will involve students in using manipulatives to explore even and odd numbers.
- Author: Alta Allen
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Snakes are cool
- This lesson begins with a reading of Verdi by Janell Cannon. It integrates science with language arts as the students learn about snakes and write about their findings.
- Author: Marcia Reich
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- "Three Cool Kids"
- After reading "Three Cool Kids", by Rebecca Emberley, students will discuss literary elements: characters, setting, problem and solution. The teacher will record using the Inspiration software what students say, making a web that shows the different elements of the story.
- Author: Genevieve Kiser
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- This lesson plan focuses on a English Language Arts objectives: similarity and difference. Students compare the story The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Students will work collaboratively in small heterogeneous groups to apply strategies for comprehension and vocabulary.
- Author: Betty Coleman-Canty and Michelle Swain
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- What's Happening Now?
- This comprehension and writing lesson helps the student develop skills in predicting what will happen next and sequencing. It also develops the ability to answer what, where, when, and how questions. It can also include a writing activity that teaches writing in a newspaper format by answering the "W" questions and creating a class newspaper book.
- Author: Nancy McGowan
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Comparing fiction and nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" text sets
- In this lesson, students explore similarities and differences among various versions of “Little Red Riding Hood.”
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Comparing Tales through Performance
- Students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and a contemporary version of The Three Little Pigs.
- Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–4)
- Deeper reading response: A template for teachers
- Details the five expressive and performative engagements for responding to text, as identified by Lawrence R. Sipe.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Digging up details on worms: Using the language of science in an inquiry study
- In this lesson, students explore science vocabulary as they research worms in order to plan and build a classroom worm habitat.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Integrating Language Arts Using "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
- This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine word-skill work with prediction and sequencing practice.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- It Doesn't Have to End That Way: Using Prediction Strategies with Literature
- Enhances story time by encouraging students to reflect on and respond to literature.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- A journal for Corduroy: Responding to literature
- This lesson from ReadWriteThink leads first-grade students to reflect on and respond to literature through journal writing. Students read books in the Corduroy record their own adventures with Corduroy, share their stories with the class, and create a class book using the computer.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)