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English Language Arts — Kindergarten
Goal 3, Objective 3.01
Resources aligned to this objective
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- ABC's by the week
- This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational tasks. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Information Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Karen Dawsey and Sherry Waters.
- Air is All Around Us
- Air is everywhere. It cannot be seen, but it is all around us. This lesson helps students discover that air is everywhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Jan Wuertz.
- 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.
- Bouncing bubbles
- Students will listen to Bubbles Bubbles by Mercer Mayer and a bubble poem before exploring the joys of bubble blowing. Students will observe bubbles, discuss their observations and create illustrations and stories to share.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Karen Rice.
- Bunny Addition
- This lesson integrates language arts, music, and math. The children will listen to the story Count on Bunnies. They will be given the opportunity to act out the story and solve bunny equations. After listening to the song "Five Young Rabbits," the children will take turns being rabbits and pantomiming the actions as the class sings. The children will combine the rabbits at the end of each verse to see how many rabbits have been added. Then they will work in pairs to create their own rabbit equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Information Skills, English Language Arts, Music Education, and Mathematics)
- By Becky Smith.
- Here Comes the Circus
- Boys and girls of all ages love the Circus. This is a lesson from an integrated unit. In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Kindergarten level words from the Dolch Word List.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Penny Stafford.
- Imaginative Writing
- This plan is for Special Needs students, nonreaders with limited writing skills, and reluctant learners.
This lesson was developed for a homebound setting (one-on-one) but could be easily adapted for use in the classroom. This plan addresses emerging writing skills by engaging the student's interest in creating original drawings. - Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Ann Franklin.
- Jelly Beans Count!!!
- Children will fill plastic Easter eggs with the correct number of jelly beans. After they complete the entire dozen, they are allowed to keep the ones they get correct.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Ronnia Frazier.
- 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.
Lesson plans on the web
- Aesop and Anase: Animal fables and trickster tales
- Students become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- An alternative to testing: Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
- Students build on the idea of a vocabulary parade presented in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster in order to create vocabulary lists about a recent unit of study. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- A bear of a poem: Composing and performing found poetry
- In this lesson, students select favorite words from read-alouds of childrens books to create a collective class poem that they will perform for an audience. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- 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. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Healthful Living Education)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- 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.” (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Creating class rules: A beginning to creating community
- Students are led through a discussion designed to establish goals and needs for the classroom. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- 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. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Descriptive writing and the 100th day of school
- Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home. Then students write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Exploring sets through math-related book pairs
- After reading two math-related books, students explore their school and home environments to find and represent their own examples of sets. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE