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- An American hero: Harriet Tubman
- In this lesson, the school librarian and classroom teacher should work together to teach students about the life of Harriet Tubman in recognition of African-American History and Cultural Heritage Month.
- Author: Floanna Long
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Arctic Animals
- This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists incorporating listening comprehension, categorizing, following verbal directions, and basic vocabulary and language concepts for First grade students.
- Author: Susan Ayers
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Bugs, bugs, bugs
- This lesson integrates writing and the study of insects by creating an innovation to the text of the book How Many Bugs in a Box? by David A. Carter
- Author: Vicki Rivenbark
- 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)
- Grocery store matter
- The lesson stimulates students' thought processes and makes students aware of the things around them by teaching them about the three kinds of matter and their properties.
- Author: Indiana Jennette
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Healthy foods = super kids
- This lesson focuses on how the foods we eat affect our bodies in both beneficial and harmful ways. Students will learn that grains provide energy; vegetables are needed for healthy skin, hair and eyes; fruits help the body heal, milk builds strong bones and teeth; meat builds muscle and gives strength; and sweets, fats, and oils are high in calories and give few vitamins and minerals and do little to help our bodies grow.
- Author: Phyllis Bass and Rubetta Carr
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1)
- Is it living?
- Students will identify living and nonliving things.
- Author: Genita Powell
- 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)
- Book sorting: Using observation and comprehension to categorize books
- Students choose books from the classroom library, then use their observation skills to sort them into categories while discussing the content and illustrations.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- 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)
- 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)
- Creating class rules: A beginning to creating community
- Students are led through a discussion designed to establish goals and needs for the classroom.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Creating question and answer books through guided research
- Focuses on a “learn by doing” series of reading and writing activities designed to teach research strategies.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–1)
- 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)
- Diagram it! Identifying, comparing, and writing about nonfiction texts
- Students explore a variety of nonfiction books and compare them to fiction.
- 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)
- Dog gone job!
- Students watch a video of a workers at a kennel and talk about the types of jobs that they saw.
- Provider: National Council on Economic Education
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Improving fluency through group literary performance
- Bill Martin Jr.'s picture books provide opportunities for students to hear fluent reading modeled then to join in the readings through literary performance.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)