Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts — Kindergarten

LEARN NC

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

Goal 3

The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.

Objective 3.03

Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.

Resources aligned to this objective

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