Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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A Birthday Basket For Tia: This lesson will provide your students with an opportunity to brainstorm, predict, and check for understanding throughout this wonderful story about a little girl, Cecilia, who is preparing a special birthday gift for her 90 year-old Aunt Tia. Cecilia collects objects that represent her favorite memories with her aunt. Many uses of technology are suggested to integrate math and science with language and reading.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Mathematics); By Jenny Walters.

The Farm Concert: This lesson teaches basic print awareness along with animal names and sounds through guided reading and the use of a graphic organizer.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Kelly Brandon.

Itsy, Bitsy Spider: The learner will use the words of the fingerplay Itsy, Bitsy Spider to create a book.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By JanetD White.

Learning Language Strategies Through Repeated Readings of Storybooks: This lesson will guide and teach students how to process and produce language at higher levels through meaningful, redundant, contextually appropriate, and intrinsically rewarding center-based activities related to a storybook theme.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Information Skills and English Language Arts); By Elizabeth Winborne.

Life cycle of painted lady butterflies: Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, Computer Technology Skills, and Science); By Anne Allen.

Look and listen: Exploring the five senses: This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Lisa Wallace.

Monstrous Masks: Teacher will read the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Children will create monster masks to associate the letter m and the phonemic sound of m to the masks.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Olivia Hyatt.

My Favorite Women/Great-Aunt Arizona: These three (or four) 45-minute lessons will introduce Kindergarteners and first graders to "Women's History Month." The students listen to the story of author Gloria Houston's great-aunt, Arizona Houston Hughes. During and following the listening and viewing experiences, the students will discuss their experiences with women in their own history who are helping them become good citizens and grow up well.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills); By Floanna Long.

Picture, Letter, Word: A lesson designed to engage pre-emergent readers in an activity which will enable them to identify pictures, letters, and words in books. It will provide an opportuntiy for them to work in a small group setting to develop a product and enhance their learning; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Linda Kinnamon.

Sentence Scramble: Students will learn concepts about print including print directionality and the understanding that written print contains a message.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Cathy Chianese.

To eat or not to eat: After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will sort the foods the caterpillar ate by foods they need or don't need for their body.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, Social Studies, and Mathematics); By Karlyn Sugg.

The big green monster teaches phonics in reading and writing: Students examine onset/rime patterns by generating word families, review sight words in the story, and play a card game to reinforce high-frequency vocabulary. This writing exploration allows an integrated application of phonics. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 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

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

Playing Name Bingo with "Chrysanthemum": Students listen to Chrysanthemum and discuss the importance of a name. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Information Skills and English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Shared poetry reading: Teaching print concepts, rhyme, and vocabulary: This lesson teaches the acquisition of vocabulary, one-to-one matching, left-to-right directionality, and awareness of rhyme. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Shhh! Bear's sleeping: learning about nonfiction and fiction using read-alouds: In this lesson, students explore the distinction between fiction and nonfiction through read-alouds of Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky, as well as poems and songs. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Stop signs, McDonald's, and Cheerios: Writing with environmental print: In this lesson, students read words found on everyday objects and use them to identify individual letters. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 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

Using repetition and picture cues to foster independent young readers: Invites kindergartners to share their knowledge of letters and sounds in a large group setting. Each student contributes a page to make a classroom book. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE