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Nonfiction texts offer a great lens into cause and effect relationships. Use this lesson plan to teach your class to compare cause-and-effect relationships across texts that share a topic.

Analyzing Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Articles

Students will be jumping with joy after this lesson that helps them practice their subtraction skills with physical activity.

Whole Body Subtraction

Students will use the classroom word wall to read and spell tricky sight words.

Wowza Word Walls!

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

How are quadrilaterals connected? In this lesson, your students will learn about the relationship between quadrilaterals by drawing, defining, and labeling different ones.

Are You Connected to Me?

Teach your students to use an area model to solve multiplication problems with mixed numbers.

Multiplication of Mixed Numbers with Area Models

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women's sports.

Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world. 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

Kids will love learning some fun facts about elephants while developing their reading comprehension skills. Using T-charts and Venn diagrams, they'll analyze stories and explore different characteristics of fiction and nonfiction.

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Is it real or is it fantasy? This lesson introduces students to the literary concepts of realism and fantasy. Readers will practice this skill by using details in texts to distinguish the two genre elements. 

Making Sense of Realism and Fantasy

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson. 

Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Students will learn about three nonfiction text features: charts, graphs, and diagrams. They will analyze and interpret the information represented in these visual forms and discover how they aid in the comprehension of nonfiction texts. 

Charts and Graphs and Diagrams, Oh My!

Every student is unique. This lesson emphasizes that uniqueness by having young learners use similes to share some of the traits that make them special. It features Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood and a fantastic storyboard exercise.

Similes That Describe ME!

In this lesson, your students will explore the library in search of various genres of nonfiction texts. Teach this lesson at the beginning of the year to familiarize your students with the structure and organization of the library. 

Nonfiction Genres

Improve reading comprehension with a lesson on cause and effect! In this lesson, students will use a T-chart to identify examples of cause and effect in and by the end, you’ll all be singing along to the cause and effect song!

Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Students will learn how to identify story elements and create a short and sweet summary. They will fill out a graphic organizer and solidify their understanding by creating illustrations to show major plot points that they find themselves!

Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

That’s right! The theme applies to everyone! Use this interactive lesson to teach your students how to find the theme of a fictional text.

There’s No I in Theme-work!

By analzying picture books, students will make connections between the text and the illustrations of a story. They will compare and contrast the text and the illustrations and reflect upon how they impact their comprehension of a text.

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations

Baby, you're a firework! In this musical lesson, your students will use context clues to determine the meaning of similes and metaphors in popular music. They will then use this knowledge to write their own metaphors and similes.



Soulful Similes and Musical Metaphors

How big is a foot? Students find out to explore how to measure in feet by comparing their own feet to rulers. Then they set off to measure the length and width of the classroom!

Measuring Feet…in Feet!

Pow! Bam! Splat! In this integrated reading and science lesson, students will explore the relationship between cause and effect. They will get creative and create cause-and-effect comic strips! 

Cause and Effect with Comic Strips

In this lesson, students will make bar graphs and interpret data using real-life data from other students. They will get practice writing and answering survey questions.

Bar Graphs: Interpreting Data

Get your students excited about money! Have them make connections between their prior knowledge of base-ten numerals and one, ten, and hundred dollar bills.

Base-Ten Money: Hundreds, Tens, and Ones

Some understandings are revealed through repeated, clear and simple steps. Use this lesson plan to teach your students to illustrate area model for products when multiplying fractions. It’s a four-step adventure!

Area Models and Multiplying Fractions

Double dominoes! Get your students excited to add with dominoes and playing cards. This lesson is a fun way to help your students continue to learn to add.

Adding with Dominoes and Playing Cards

Can you break a ten? An everyday exchange of money can help students think about regrouping to subtract. Students will use bundled popsicle sticks to see how values grouped into tens can be regrouped into ones to allow us to subtract. 



Regrouping with Popsicle Sticks: Double-Digit Subtraction

In this lesson, your students will explore reading with technology with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Students will use a graphic organizer to reflect on this story.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details

Counting collections are a great way to help students practice counting while gaining practice recording and justifying their thinking. Students will work specifically with the numbers 1-30 to develop fluency counting and writing numbers.

Counting Collections

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Get your students moving with this activity that helps them practice their addition skills while having fun hunting for their next problem.

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