Theme Poems
(View Complete Item Description)Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
All resources in Nebraska K - 3 Reading
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Alphabet Knowledge/ Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
(View Complete Item Description)This Remote Learning Plan is designed for preschool students. This alphabet lesson uses the story Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault as an introduction to alphabet identification. Anticipated lesson length is 30 minutes. Online and offline options are included.
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Animal Note Taking Skills
(View Complete Item Description)Students will read an article on animals. Using the provided worksheet students will take notes on an animal of their choosing. Once they have taken notes, they will be asked to write a new report on their animal.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
K-1 -“See Me” High-Frequency (Sight) Words
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use beginning sight words to confidently read and write. This is meant as a mid to end of the year Kindergarten lesson. It is a beginning of 1st grade lesson meant as a review and/or initial activity for students to then choose to do independently throughout the school year as they learn and add additional High-Frequency words to their base of knowledge.
Material Type: Lesson, Teaching/Learning Strategy
BACK TO SCHOOL- READY OR NOT
(View Complete Item Description)Students will identify with characters in stories to understand that feelings can be shared between themselves, other characters, and other students in our World. Students will also identify the similarities and differences between two different texts in order to understand the main idea.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
“And the Oscar Goes To…” (Lesson/Tools for a Drama Station)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will build fluency skills through a Drama Station where they can choose to perform a Reader’s Theater activity, poetry selection, jokes, a favorite book, or a song.The students will develop their speaking and listening skills and then evaluate themselves using a rubric assessment.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading
Telling a Story About Me: Young Children Write Autobiographies
(View Complete Item Description)Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Unit of Study
Adverbs
(View Complete Item Description)Nebraska Standards: 3.2.2.d, 3.2.1h, 3.2.2.aTarget: Students will review and practice parts of speech, specifically adverbs with self, partners or/and class. When students know how to correctly use adverbs they can enhance thier wrting by making it more interesting, adding details, and using good word choice. Time- 20 minutesMaterials- all optional: paper, pencils, video, partner
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Good sentences and Exclamation Marks
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan was created by Dawn Spurck as part of the 2020 NDE OER Project. The attached lesson plan is designed for Grade K English Language Arts students. Students will demonstrate their understanding that exclamation marks show something very exciting or make a strong statement. Students will also give oral feedback on written sentences. Students will proofread and make edits to sentences they write. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA O1.1.b, NE LA 0.1.1.e, NE LA 0.1.1.f, NE LA 0.2.1 f, and NE LA 0.2.1.h.It is expected that this lesson will take students 15-20 minutes to complete.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
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Kindergarten Station: Building a Sight Word Video: Unit 1 & 2 (Journeys)
(View Complete Item Description)Kindergarten students use various materials to build sight words and create a video to watch as a future review.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
PreK Fall Lang Arts Small Group
(View Complete Item Description)This is a small group emergent reader lesson for the preschool/kindergarten age range. It would be perfect for your Fall/Leaves changing thematic units! Teachers can gather GOLD data on student's knowledge of concepts of print and comfortability navigating the book. Enjoy!
Material Type: Lesson
Pre-K Apple Name Letter Review
(View Complete Item Description)This is a small group lesson plan that gives students practice with name letter recognition and fine motor skills. It would fit great into an apple thematic unit. Enjoy!
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Pre-K Fall - Shared Reading
(View Complete Item Description)This is a whole group shared reading lesson aimed for preschoolers! It is a great resource to model directionality as well as some math concepts. It would fit great into your Fall Thematic Units.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Remote Learning Plan: Listen to a Rhyme (Five Little Monkeys): Kindergarten
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson uses the nursery rhyme, Five Little Monkeys, to teach or supplement the teaching of blending syllables in kindergarten. The lesson includes online and offline resources and extensions.It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 15 minutes to complete. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 0.1.2.d Identify, blend and segment syllable sounds in spoken words (e.g., cupcake, birthday).
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Remote Learning Plan: Listen to a Rhyme (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) : Kindergarten
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson uses the nursery rhyme, Twinkle Twinkle Litte Star, to teach or supplement the teaching of segmenting syllables in kindergarten. The lesson includes online and offline resources and extensions.It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 15 minutes to complete. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 0.1.2.d Identify, blend and segment syllable sounds in spoken words (e.g., cupcake, birthday).
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Counting Words in Nursery Rhyme Sentences
(View Complete Item Description)Sentence segmentation, or counting words in a sentence, is the first step in phonological awareness. Students need to have an understanding that words are made up of letters and sentences are made up of words. This basic skill will help them later with both reading and writing.Objective: I can break and count words in a sentence.Time required: 20 minutes or lesson can be chunked into managable size bits for your students.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
My Home- Writing, Math and High Frequency Words
(View Complete Item Description)Students will use two-dimensional shapes to build a house on a page, then write a sentence using sight words and encodable words such as "I have a little house." They can be required to identify each shape as they remove it from their "house."
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading
Color Your World With Kindness Writing
(View Complete Item Description)Students will get to shake up the day a bit with a writing prompt and video on kindness! Everyone needs a little kindness added to their day, so let's teach our students about it! This lesson focuses on use complete thoughts, but prompts the students with questions on how to write. It can be used anywhere from 1-5 grade and with that comes a little change to the lesson.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
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Preschool Read Aloud: Go, Dog. Go!
(View Complete Item Description)This is a Read Aloud Lesson plan remixed to fit into preschool. It includes possible extension activities that teachers could include in centers or as a seperate whole group/small group lesson.
Material Type: Lesson Plan