Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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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.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills); By Tonya Williams.

Digging up discoveries: The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science); By Alyssa Slater.

Habitat happenings (Lesson five): This is lesson five in the series. During this lesson students will put the things they have learned from previous lessons into a creative writing assignment. The students will choose an animal to be and will describe themselves and their living environment.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science); By Kelly Stewart.

Leapin' Leprechauns: This lesson will allow first graders to use their imagination while practicing newly learned writing skills. The end product will be wonderfully creative Leprechaun stories.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By JoAnn Lazaro.

Oh, the Places I Will Go!: Students will listen to the story by Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go! The students will brainstorm a list of places they would like to go. Places such as nouns and proper nouns will be separated during the listing process. The students will write a response to: "Oh, the places I will go! I will go____________." and illustrate their responses. Each student response will be collected for a class book entitled "Oh, the Places We Will Go!"; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Karen Mercer.

Pets: Students will categorize their family pets and indicate a pet they would like to have. Students will then write sentences about their pets.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Kathy Beck.

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.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science); By Marcia Reich.

Whose Habitat Is That? (Lesson 3): This lesson is designed to help students explore the surroundings animals find in each of the five habitats. This plan is written for the desert habitat but the same plan should be used for the exploration of all five habitat settings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Kelly Stewart.

Action ABC's: Learning vocabulary with verbs: Students review the definition of a verb and then expand their vocabulary by using verbs they already know in sentences. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Dr. Seuss's sound words: Playing with phonics and spelling: By focusing on sound words in Dr. Seuss stories, students develop spelling strategies that help them move from phonemes, the sounds they make, to graphemes, the written representations of those sounds. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

From “Little House” to my house: Exploring history and family roles: This lesson for first and second grade students features two read-aloud sessions of a picture book adaptation of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

From stop signs to the golden arches: Environmental print: Students will help collect examples of environmental print, sort and classify these examples for inclusion in class books, and spend time reading the books as individuals, in pairs, or in groups. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Get Writing with "Weekend News!": Students write about their weekends, using skills they have learned in writing workshop. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy: Students learn shape names, locate shapes in their environment, practice spelling out the names of items and shapes they locate, and reflect, in writing, on the process. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose: Children connect characters with letters of the alphabet, letting them serve as hooks to help children remember the letters and their sounds and use that knowledge in their writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

What's in a Name? Teaching Concepts of Letter and Word: In this lesson, kindergarten children understand the concepts of letter and word by using their names as a starting point. Ideas will also be given to help assess student progress in becoming readers and writers. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Write right back: Recognizing readers' needs and expectations for e-mail replies: In this lesson students explore issues of reply format and content with audience needs and expectations in mind. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE