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- Story map: The gingerbread manhunt
- The purpose of this lesson is to present a fun, memorable way for children to learn where the secretary, principal, nurse, janitor, cafeteria, playground, and other grade levels are located while matching a face and job with each of these locations and its importance to the functioning of the school.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Social Studies)
- By Tina Baker.
- Counting fun
- This is a lesson on counting that takes 30 minutes. It is a good whole group activity for beginning counting, (forwards and backwards), and numeral recognition 1-10 to use early in the year. It is also good for math in literature. The activity can be extended as a counting game to use individually or small group during work stations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Karen McNeely.
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Doyle.
- Piggies
- This activity is a fun, interactive lesson that integrates children's literature with math. (A great way to integrate author studies!) This activity allows students to be involved in all 4 learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic). I spread this lesson out over two days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Stephanie Hatcher.
- Reading picture books: resources for teachers
- Illustrations, picturebook finding aids, and great picture book websites.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Communicating with parents
- To communicate successfully with parents, be caring, professional, open, and organized.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Polar bears: Keeping warm at the Arctic
- Students will learn about the polar bear's body coverings and how they help it to survive in the Arctic climate. The activities include a trip to the North Carolina Zoological park and a hands-on experiment to facilitate this goal, followed by reflection on and communication of what they have learned using a variety of media including art and literature.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
- By Sandy Hardin.
- Teaching mathematics through literature
- This lesson is a collaborative pair learning activity which uses the book Jumanji to teach Probability.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Brenda Davis.
- "Mice" in the Media Center
- This lesson plan will foster literature appreciation in the Elementary School through sharing a variety of books(fiction and non-fiction) poems, puppets or models, focusing on a mouse or mice as a main character or characters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills)
- Fun with division
- Students will learn division concepts through the use of The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins and a poem entitled "Dividing up Bugs." Students will be involved in hands on activities in order to gain an understanding of division. This lesson plan integrates communication skills, math, and technology.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Grace Blythe.
- Digital literature
- Electronic books offer numerous benefits: They're usually searchable, they can be made instantly accessible to the visually impaired, they're often free, and, perhaps best of all, they're accessible right now. This list compiles some of the best sources for finding great works of literature on the Web.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Reading picture books
- Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Soup's on!
- This lesson integrates children's literature and math. The students will listen to "Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown and bring items from home to make "First Grade Soup." The children will use the items to create a graph and share information about their graphs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Vicki Rivenbark.
- Understanding audience
- This activity is designed to help students identify their audience and determine appropriate language use based on the audience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Bonnie Mcmurray and Julie Joslin.
- Bulletin board of story elements
- This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories
- This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Amber Miller.
- The North Carolina Writers' Network: Literary Hall of Fame
- Find biographical information about North Carolina writers who have been inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame. Periodically, this organization holds teacher workshops, check back often to learn more.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Learning in colonial Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.8
- During the late 1600s and early 1700s, education in Carolina was largely informal. Most children learned by watching and imitating parents and older community members. The sons of the wealthy were sent away to schools in other colonies or in England. The first efforts to provide formal education in Carolina were made by religious groups — the Quakers, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians.
- Format: article
- By Betty Dishong Renfer.
- Apples on parade
- Children will discover the different varieties of apples after listening to a selected story by describing likenesses and differences of apples, sorting apples, graphing apples, eating apples, and creating apple star trees. This unit can be extended to allow children to cook with apples.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Nancy Haley.
- Wet your kinders' chops on the sound "op"!
- Students will explore the sound “Op” with a reading of Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka and a showing of the PBS Between the Lions episode #130 “Be Bop,” which also features the Charlie Parker book and explores the “op” sound.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Dirk Robertson.
