English Language Arts — Kindergarten

Do Spiders Live on the World Wide Web?

Through use of a fun and informative online story, students will explore the parts of the computer, as well as discover that words have multiple meanings.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)

By Amy Langston.

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.

Letter Books

Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple." In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Clara McKenzie.

Lesson plans on the web

Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon

Students engage in word recognition activities using character names and high-frequency words from the predictable texts of nursery rhymes and the big book The Enormous Watermelon. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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

As slippery as an eel: An ocean unit exploring simile and metaphor

Students explore simile and metaphor in fiction and nonfiction ocean books. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)

Provider: IRA/NCTE

Building a matrix for Leo Lionni books: An author study

Students listen to books by author Leo Lionni and create and organizing information on a large matrix which depicts the main elements of that day's story. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)

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

Click, clack, moo: Reading word family words

Teachers use Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin to teach students word identification strategies. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)

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

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

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

Fact or fiction: Learning about worms using diary of a worm

Students develop strategies for differentiating fact from fiction in other books. (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

Improving fluency through group literary performance

Bill Martin Jr.'s picture books provide opportunities for students to hear fluent reading modeled then to join in the readings through literary performance. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)

Provider: IRA/NCTE

Junie B. Jones introduces literacy mystery boxes

Students discuss the text Junie B., First Grader (at last!) with a partner, and then individually record key events from the story. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)

Provider: IRA/NCTE

Note writing in the primary classroom

Invites students to write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment, providing many natural opportunities for meaningful writing and lots of practice in encoding/decoding written text. (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

Pioneer America: Legendary westerners

Students study legendary westerners during the period of westward expansion in U.S. history. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 English Language Arts)

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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