We've got a bunch going all at once, here: learn to tell the differences between these eight frequently-confused words.
Students will explore the outdoor classroom finding objects and determining the first sound.
This resource was created by Jill Anderson, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.
Students will explore the outdoor classroom finding objects and determining the first sound.
Is it okay to begin a sentence with a conjunction like "but" or "because"? Yes. David explains why.
In this lesson, students make a choice about what they want to eat for dinner, but then they are asked to trade with a partner and discuss whether they like their new dinner better. Based on this discussion, they learn about preferences and how they help us make choices. Students then hear a story about a little bear who looks at many hats to see if he can find a new one he likes. Students will relate key concepts from the lesson to the story and create a hat to discuss their own choices and preferences with the class.
In this lesson, students hear a story about two little bears whose parents use several figures of speech relating to money. Students draw a picture of a bank and write a caption explaining their illustration. Students follow along with the story by listening for additional figures of speech and how they relate to the concepts of banks and interest. The students also construct a story map of an event in the story relating to why people choose to keep their money in banks.
Go Away, Big Green Monster! Ed Emberley's tale about a scary, multicolored monster is used to help students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills. In this lesson, students chorally read the story and then point out familiar color words or sight words that appear in the story. After finishing the story, students are introduced to four different literacy center activities that include participating in a read along, building word families with story words, playing a memory game with color words from the story, and retelling story events using sentence strips. In the sessions that follow, students create their own artwork of the big green monster and use that artwork to help them write a story. Students use both self- and peer-editing to improve their writing. Completed stories are either published on the Internet or in a class book.
Within this collection you will find lessons, videos, handouts, and teacher guides you can use in your classroom. You will also find a brief summary of each resource with the source sited for further exploration, appropriate grade level, approximate lesson length, and learning standards.
Students will discuss the definition of a biography and determine what elements it contains. They will research a famous person and create a web graphic organizer with key achievements and personal information from their life. Peer feedback will be given on the web creation and then an oral presentation will be given.
3, 2, 1... Blast off! Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon, read-alouds, creating a picture dictionary, and completing a final writing activity.
The Storm of the Century: The Blizzard of 49 is a WyomingPBS documentary. This documentary tells the story of the worst series of storms in Wyoming's history. But for all the tragedy and loss, suffering, and death, there was hope and heroism, unselfish sacrifice, and generosity. Students will learn about the Blizzard of 1949 and how the State of Wyoming and the Civil Air Patrol responded.
The resource videos are based on this documentary and include associated lesson plans. There are three video clips. Clip one starts at the beginning and ends at 2:50 minutes, Clip two begins at 3:50 minutes and ends at 5:50 minutes, clip three begins at 6:00 minutes and ends at 8:41 minutes.
Sensitive: This resource contains material that may be sensitive for some students. Teachers should exercise discretion in evaluating whether this resource is suitable for their class.
Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.
Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts.
Students utilize their reading and writing skills as they think critically in order to sort books in multiple ways.
Needing a book talk lesson for students in grades 1-2? Any teacher or substitute can use this lesson as a Language Arts project. This book talk for Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr./Eric Carle will have students thinking of animals and their unique sounds to include in their own book., which they will think of on their own, and put into a book format. To take it a step further, students can read their books in front of the class or in rotating partners or small groups, when their books are completed.
Needing a quick book talk library lesson for children K-2? This book talk for Go, Dog. Go! P.D. Eastman’s Book of Things That Go by P.D. Eastman will have children following all types of dogs on an adventure to a dog party. Later, they can apply what they've learned and thought about to create a party of their own.
Needing a quick book talk lesson for children K-1? Here is a quick lesson that any teacher or substitute could use to fill in some language arts time. This book talk for Go, Dog. Go! P.D. Eastman’s Book of Things That Go by P.D. Eastman will have children following all types of dogs on an adventure to a dog party. Have fun and Enjoy :)
Needing a quick book talk library lesson for children K-2? This book talk for Go, Dog. Go! P.D. Eastman’s Book of Things That Go by P.D. Eastman will have children following all types of dogs on an adventure to a dog party. Later, they can apply what they've learned and thought about to create a party of their own.