English Language Arts — Kindergarten

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.

Buy, Sell, and Tell

This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists that incorporates food vocabulary, basic concepts of matching, color, and number, as well as the pragmatic skill of turn taking for language-delayed kindergarten students.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Karen Ring.

Inching Through Oral Language for ESOL Students

This lesson will use the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to help the student use clear and precise language to demonstrate comprehension.

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

By Angela Goldberg.

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.

Painting the Alphabet

After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.

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

By Jackie White, Kathy2 Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.

Thanksgiving story, Stone Soup

This lesson is for K–5 Exceptional Children who are mild to moderately disabled. This lesson will incorporate listening, daily living, fine motor, and augmentive communication skills.

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Healthful Living Education)

By Christina Pond and Sarah Boling.

Lesson plans on the web

Action ABC's: Learning vocabulary with verbs

Students review the definition of a verb and then expand their vocabulary by using verbs they already know in sentences. (Learn more)

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

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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

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

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

Boys can dance

Reinforces the idea that dancing is a beneficial activity for both men and women. Students compare the benefits of dance training and sports then watch video clips of famous male dancers. (Learn more)

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

Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Collaborating on a class book: Exploring before-during-after sequences

Students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity focusing on a basic before-during-after sequence of events. (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

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

Dog gone job!

Students watch a video of a workers at a kennel and talk about the types of jobs that they saw. (Learn more)

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

Provider: National Council on Economic Education

Ferocious fighting fish: An ocean unit exploring beginning word sounds

Students focus on alliteration while exploring an ocean theme. (Learn more)

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

Provider: IRA/NCTE

Giant story problems: Reading comprehension through math problem solving

Students use drawings, equations, and written responses to solve single story problems with enlarged print. (Learn more)

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

Provider: IRA/NCTE

Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy

Students learn shape names, locate shapes in their environment, practice spelling out the names of items and shapes they locate, and reflect, in writing, on the process. (Learn more)

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

Provider: IRA/NCTE