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Your students become masters at character analysis as they learn how to describe fictional characters by identifying traits and providing concrete evidence to support their thinking. 

how to analyze a character

How to Analyze a Character

Enhance your child's predictive abilities with this creative reading lesson. By imitating the styles of Eric Carle's Do You Want to Be My Friend?, students will create and share their own mini guessing games.

predicting pictures

Predicting Pictures

This lesson will make solving subtraction word problems fun for students. It includes music and interaction to grab your students' attention.

getting wordy with subtraction

Getting Wordy with Subtraction

Explore a day in the life of a pencil! Your students will practice different points of view by thinking outside the box and writing as though they are something else.

point of view frenzy

Point of View Frenzy

It's rhyme time! Students will color-code rhyming words and put each one in its “word family house” with this fun rhyming mini book and fill in the "stair steps" writing activity page.



rhyming word family fun houses

Rhyming Word Family Fun Houses

Use storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this interactive lesson. 

words that make us feel a lesson on sensory language

Words That Make Us Feel: A Lesson on Sensory Language

Family first! This lesson encourages students to think about families and how diverse families can be.

my family writing practice

My Family: Writing Practice

This quirky lesson will have young readers hungry to identify three and four letter words containing the digraph "th" in Eric Carle's classic The Hungry Caterpillar.

hungry for the digraph th

Hungry for the Digraph Th

Students love comic books! Channel their excitement for this fun genre and get their creative writing juices flowing.  By writing their own comic strips, students will be practicing composing, sequencing, and using dialogue.


bam pow comic strip writing

BAM! POW! Comic Strip Writing

Your students will have loads of fun discovering new words and using them describe the feelings of different characters. Featuring No, David! by David Shannon, this lesson will help kids practice reading and writing.

mad sad happy glad character feelings

Mad, Sad, Happy, Glad: Character Feelings

Addition and language practice go hand in hand in this lesson that uses *The Very Hungry Caterpillar* as an anchor text. Students practice counting on using a number line. This lesson can be used alone or alongside **Math with Bears** lesson.

very hungry addition

Very Hungry Addition

This lesson will take the fear out of writing by allowing your students to write about what makes them happy. It provides a simple way to give young writers creative freedom.

beginning writing all about me

Beginning Writing: All About Me

Build a solid foundation in number sense with this lesson all about the friendly number 10! Students will count with both fingers and base-ten blocks. This lesson can be used alone or with the lesson plan **Place Value Concentration.**

building in baseten

Building in Base-Ten

Every young child (and adult!) loves being an expert in something. By helping students realize that they are experts in many areas, their confidence and writing will expand by leaps and bounds.  

how to do school

How to Do School

Guide students through the challenging task of unpacking the main idea of a text.

whats this all about unpacking the main idea

What’s This All About? Unpacking the Main Idea!

Students blend sounds all the time when they speak, but a whole new level of *ssshhh* is possible through selected literature and picture sorts!

ssshhhh

SSSHHHH….

This bear-y fun lesson will help your students understand addition and subtraction and reward their efforts with a sweet treat!

math with bears

Math With Bears

Which traits do your students share with their favorite characters? Find out as you introduce new adjectives! This lesson can be used alone or with the lesson plan All About Me: Character Traits.

compare with adjectives

Compare with Adjectives

Martin Luther King, Jr. played a big role in shaping America into the country that it is today. This lesson plan will help your students understand how important he was and help them dream as he did.

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I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.

From seed to flower, students will learn all about the life cycle of a plant in this science lesson. Your class will discover what living things need to grow, and learn the various stages of a plant’s life span, with new vocabulary words.

life cycle of a plant

Life Cycle of a Plant

Pick up the phoneme and practice! In this lesson, your students will practice their sense of sound-symbol relationship to develop solid spelling and reading skills.

pick up the phoneme

Pick Up the Phoneme!

Which bugs go on the rug? In this bug-themed lesson, students will look for words that are similar and fit into the -ug word family! By the end of the lesson they will create their own bugs for their uniquely designed rugs!

bugs on a rug

Bugs On a Rug

Get your students excited about adding by introducing them to word problems with three addends! 

adding three is a breeze

Adding Three is a Breeze!

Planning for a substitute in the classroom has never been easier than with this daily sub plan! Your substitute can keep your students learning in your absence by using these lessons, worksheets, and activities.

first grade daily sub plan a

First Grade Daily Sub Plan A

In this lesson, students will learn all about Maria Montessori, a pioneering researcher and teacher, and create their own biographical books about this inspiring woman.

writing about maria montessori

Writing About Maria Montessori

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

wowza word walls

Wowza Word Walls!

Have your students get energized while they learn about animal locomotion and move around like various animals!


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Move Like an Animal!

Let’s get reading and writing! In this lesson, students learn to form and recognize regular plural nouns. But the fun doesn’t stop there. Students will work with counting collections to write sentences about the objects they count.

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More Than One

Drawing on various problem solving techniques, students will challenge themselves to solve word problems involving three whole numbers. Problem solving, critical thinking, and real life applications? This lesson has it all. 

howd you get that many

How'd You Get That Many?

In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of doing one thing at a time and listen to the book *What Does It Mean to Be Present?*. Then, they will experience the inefficiency of multitasking by doing three things at once.

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