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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: Learning letters and sounds at a zoom!: This lesson introduces, reviews, and reinforces letter recognition and letter sounds using the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault. Kindergarten children will enjoy this activity! It is appropriate for all academic levels.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Shanna Buckner.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: As an extension of a weather unit, second grade students will use the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett to explore compound words using an introduction to spreadsheet.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Information Skills); By Mary Rizzo.

Dear Peter Rabbit: Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson, and Stephanie Johnson.

Love Letters: Using imagery to convey feelings: After listening to Arnold Adoff's Love Letters, students will write and share their own love letters. This lesson is especially fun around Valentine's Day.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By Jennifer Reid.

Molly's Pilgrim Activity: Using the book by Barbara Cohen, students will respond to the social and historical significance of this portrayal of the Thanksgiving holiday. Students will also participate in constructing a Venn diagram and completing a cloze activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Susan Milholland, Kathy Vaden, and Rita Wilson.

Tacky the Penguin: After reading the story, Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester, the students will write their own Tacky story. The students will brainstorm ideas before getting started. Next each student will write a rough draft. After the rough draft, the students will proofread and edit their work. Then the students will type their story and illustrate the pictures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Tonya Williams.

The Alphabet Tree: After reading The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni to students, the students will retell the events on a flow map. Then using Kid Pix software, each child will choose an event, illustrate it, and write a caption for it. The students will then put their events in order in a Kid Pix Slide Show they can present to the class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Jody Shaughnessy.

The Farm Concert: This lesson teaches basic print awareness along with animal names and sounds through guided reading and the use of a graphic organizer.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Kelly Brandon.

The Legend of the Blue Bonnet: Students will create their own version/retelling of The Legend of the Blue Bonnet by Tomie dePaola; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Shari Peacock.

The Red-eyed Tree Frog and PowerPoint: Students will read The Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley then plan and put together a PowerPoint slideshow which retells the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Science); By Jody Shaughnessy.

The Wish Giver: Cause and effect: Through a discussion of the characters in the novel The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain, the teacher will teach the students to identify and analyze the cause/effect relationship and its importance in reading comprehension.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts); By Becky Ellzey.

Walter the Baker: In this lesson, students will read and discuss Walter the Baker by Eric Carle. They will then create a personal response in words and pictures explaining what they want to be when they grow up.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Teresa Bennett.

A'planting we will go: This lesson is based on the book, The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle. This story will be used to introduce the students to the concept that seeds change and grow into plants when conditions in the environment including temperature, light, water and soil are appropriate. Students will learn that plants produce seeds that can become new plants. Through extended activities, the students will experience first-hand the germination of seeds. They will become familiar with the parts of a plant and learn how each part works to produce a healthy plant.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science); By Karol Schriber.

Along the Trail of Tears: A part of history is often forgotten when teaching younger students. This is the relocation of the Cherokee Indians when the white settlers wanted their property. The US Government moved whole groups of Indians under harsh conditions. This trip became known as the Trail of Tears. Using this as a background students will explore and experiment with persuasive writing as they try to express the position of Cherokee leaders.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Glenda Bullard.

Alphabet animals: Students will use their knowledge of the alphabet and letter sounds to create an alphabet PowerPoint presentation. Each slide will contain a letter of the alphabet, a sentence and the sound that corresponds to that letter.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Information Skills); By Emily Leonard.

Animal adjectives: Students will describe animals as they review nouns and verbs associated with these animals. They will learn to use adjectives as they describe the animals. They will use this knowledge to write their stories about animals.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Anita Baldwin, Ann Loftis, and Genevieve Kiser.

Animals on the move: Students will choose an animal, draw the animal, write a sentence naming their animal and write a sentence about what their animal can do using inventive as well as conventional spelling.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Information Skills); By Anita Baldwin, Ann Loftis, and Genevieve Kiser.

Arctic animals: This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists incorporating listening comprehension, categorizing, following verbal directions, and basic vocabulary and language concepts for First grade students.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science); By Susan Ayers.

Around the world, a multicultural unit: The students will listen to stories from different cultures. They will participate in directed discussion, followed by a related art activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts, Guidance, Healthful Living, and Social Studies); By Judy Cliver.

Awesome action words: Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By DPI Writing Strategies.

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