English Language Arts — Kindergarten

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.

Kindergarten Students Learn About Ezra Jack Keats

Students will learn about Ezra Jack Keats using a variety of resources in the media center.

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

By Brittany Basinger, Jenni Conine, and Vickie Mcmillan.

"Luscious Lollipops" and Other Adjectives

The students will become familiar with adjectives by reading Ruth Heller's book about adjectives, "Luscious Lollipops". They will also be able to use adjectives to describe an object in their own writing.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)

By Pat DeMello.

Make That Chocolate Sundae

The student will write detailed directions for making and eating a chocolate sundae. S/he will then create and eat a sundae.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 English Language Arts)

By Landa Latta.

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.

Surprise Box Descriptions

Students will learn to give oral definitions and descriptions. Each student will take a turn describing the contents of a plastic egg with a category plus attribute format. Other members in the group will have an opprtunity to guess the contents of the egg after listening to the description.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Information Skills and English Language Arts)

By Susan Karcher.

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.

Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone

Students will experience the joys of acting out the story using simple props. Students will enjoy eating pie, and completing a bubble map and class graph.

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

By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.

Lesson plans on the web

Adjective Monster

Students explore the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. (Learn more)

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

Provider: ARTSEDGE: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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

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 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

Elephant seals on the beach

Introduces students to the habitat and life patterns of Elephant Seals. (Learn more)

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

Provider: National Geographic

Eureka!

Students will look at how inventions such as plastic have changed our lives and how they are changing the future of living in space. (Learn more)

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

Provider: National Council on Economic Education

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

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

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