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 1.05

Use a variety of strategies and skills to read self-selected texts independently for 20 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.

Resources aligned to this objective

Butterfly cycle
Students will understand the life cycle of the butterfly and create various art activities that would model metamorphosis.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
By Becky Woolard.

Lesson plans on the web

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. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
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
Is this the right book for me? Strategies for beginning readers
In this lesson, students learn to identify purposes for reading and are given strategies to evaluate if the reading level and length of a book is appropriate. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Literature circles with primary students using self-selected reading
Presents a structured guideline for helping students learn to think about the books they read, and to ask questions about books shared by other students. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Mail time! An integrated postcard and geography study
Provides motivation for writing and reading and provides a wonderful opportunity to learn about maps as students discover where their family members and friends live. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Mathematics)
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
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. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Science)
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