Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts — Grade 1

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Primary: K | 1 | 2
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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)
Fairy Tales: This lesson will begin a unit on fairy tales for young learners. It will begin with assessing what first graders know about fairy tales. Children will learn about the original version of The Three Little Pigs.

There is a second lesson linked to this lesson - Fairy Tales - Another Point of View. This second lesson presents another point of view of the original version of the fairy tale.; Author: Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages; Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
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)
Thanksgiving story, Stone Soup: This lesson is for K–5 Exceptional Children who are mild to moderately disabled. This lesson will incorporate listening, daily living, fine motor, and augmentive communication skills.; Author: Christina Pond and Sarah Boling; Format: lesson plan (grades K–1)
Who's Your Mama? A Family Who's Who: This is the first of two lessons that can be used with Cynthia Rylant's book, The Relatives Came. Students will read, draw, role-play and sing about family roles and titles.; Author: Laura Bahlmann and Mary Lail; Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
Catching the bug for reading through interactive read-alouds: Helps students learn reading strategies and how to prevent the spread of germs in their classroom.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
Choosing one word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein's “Sick”: This lesson uses Shel Silverstein's poem “Sick” to challenge emergent readers to select the most important word in a text and to justify their selection.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
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)
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)
Readers theatre with Jan Brett: In this ReadWriteThink lesson, first- or second-grade students interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Readers Theatre experience that is performed for other groups of students.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
Reading informational texts using the 3-2-1 strategy: In this lesson, students in grades K–2 learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy, which involves writing about three things they discovered, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
Weather: A journey in nonfiction: This research project is designed for primary students to engage in nonfiction text. Students formulate questions and research information on a subject.; Provider: IRA/NCTE; Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)