LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.

Objective 1.04

Apply knowledge of all sources of information (meaning, language, graphophonics) to read a new text silently and independently.

Resources aligned to this objective

The Second Grade World of Louis Armstrong
Second grade students will explore the music of Louis Armstrong via booktalks, compact disc recordings, digital video disc recordings, and may pursue internet web-questing through Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org) and http://www.redhotjazz.com as a bonus!
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Music Education)
By Dirk Robertson.

Lesson plans on the web

Comparing Tales through Performance
Students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and a contemporary version of The Three Little Pigs. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 English Language Arts)
Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Connect with low-literate families: A three-tiered approach
This ReadWriteThink lesson involves giving children from low-literate families stories to read at home to enhance the home-school connection. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–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
Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"
Uses an active, hands-on activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter "M"
Students will learn about phonics by participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Play with words: Rhyme & verse
Students will listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They will also use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
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. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Teaching audience through interactive writing
Students work together to create an invitation letter for a group of their peers. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Word study with "Henry and Mudge"
This lesson applies Cynthia Rylant's Henry and Mudge and the small-group differentiated reading model to a systematic word study of the past tense marker -ed. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Word wizards: Students making words
This lesson uses an active, hands-on activity in which students learn how to look for patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE