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Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies
The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial to understanding society around us, as well as making decisions and defending one’s views and opinions. Help your students develop the reading skills that will help them achieve higher in social studies--and in life
Take this course: Begins April 6.

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Reading picture books
Two strategies for helping children understand a story through illustrations.
By Melissa Thibault.
"Kids as Decision Makers" -- Distinguishing between Needs and Wants
The students will have hands-on experiences with sorting pictures into groups according to the social studies objective: The learner will apply basic economic concepts to home and school. This lesson will focus on distinguishing between wants and needs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Social Studies)
By Tonya Kales.
Is it open or closed?
Students will identify and create open and closed figures using labeled cards and pipe cleaners.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Vickie Fender.
Alphabet hunt
Students will find images in our environment which contain letters of the alphabet (either man made or natural) and photograph them so that they appear as the focal point.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education)
By Lee Anne Kitzmiller.
Portrait of a reader: Rosalie
In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.1
I was setting up centers for the first day of class, which was still a week away, when Rosalie and her mother entered the classroom to meet me. Rosalie's mother explained that Rosalie was so excited about school and simply could not wait until the official...
By Jeanne Gunther.
Long and Tall
Teacher and students discuss how some objects are very tall, and some objects are very long. Using long, narrow pieces of paper, students will draw two long objects and two tall objects. This lesson is intended to help children observe what is around them, judge size, and fill the page from top to bottom with the intended object.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
By Jan Kimosh.
More or less
This lesson contains a series of activities on more or less. These activities can be used over several days or combined into a one-day lesson.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Sarah Owens.
Mud feels good!
Students will listen to Mud Walk by Joy Cowley. Students will experience and describe mud using a bubble map to record their responses. Students will create a class book using chocolate pudding to imitate mud.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.
A street in Jaipur, India
A street in Jaipur, India
This is a view of a busy street in Jaipur, India. Several buses, lorries, and vans pass in the street below the building from which the photographer has taken the picture. Behind them, two scooters are parked in a chalked circle in the middle of a huge expanse...
Format: image/photograph
Beary good facts about bear books
Students will begin to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction as general genres.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Floanna Long.
Animals move!
This plan introduces students to the different ways animals move.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living and Mathematics)
By Michelle Tesiero.
Names of farm animals and sounds they make
The teacher will introduce nine animal names and the sounds they make in Spanish. Students will become familiar with the animal names and will begin some language production.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Second Languages)
By Tolitha Prybylinski.
To eat or not to eat
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will sort the foods the caterpillar ate by foods they need or don't need for their body.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
By Karlyn Sugg.
Animals movin' on up
Children will explore animal body parts in animal pictures using the inquiry method. They will discuss their functions in movement and eating. They will also discuss the idea that classifications of animals have similar body parts.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science)
By Anne Allen.
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 English Language Arts)
By Angela Goldberg.
The emperor's prize egg
This lesson will introduce students to the life of a penguin. They will explore penguins' habitats, eating habits, and other unique adaptations that they use to survive in Antarctica.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Science)
By Betty Burleson.
The Red-eyed Tree Frog and Hyperstudio
Students will read The Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley then plan and put together a Hyperstudio which retells the story.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and 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 1 English Language Arts)
By Kelly Brandon.
Features of print
In this lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of gathering information from chapter headings, bold type and other organizational features of print (such as tables of contents) in non-fiction texts in print and online.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Gail Goodling, Susan Lovett, and Sue Versenyi.
Haiku and photography: A natural connection
This lesson will allow students to combine photographing nature with creating a Haiku poem to express what they see in the photograph.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
By steven sather.