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Action verbs bring writing to life! After examining different action verbs, students put them to use when writing their own stories about recess.

time for action verbs

Time for Action (Verbs)!

Use this interactive activity to help students learn blends and digraphs and the active reading strategy stop and jot! This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

stop and jot

Stop and Jot!

It’s time to make sentences! At the Sentence Cafe, words come together to build stories. Get ready to learn about different parts of speech such as conjunctions, possessive pronouns, articles, and more in this hands-on lesson. 

sentence cafe

Sentence Cafe

Are your students hooking their readers? Use this creative and imaginative writing exercise that will bring student beginnings to life.

lets hook em

Let's Hook 'Em!

In this lesson your students will find and examine the morals in the classic folktales of "Stone Soup" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

finding the moral

Finding the Moral

In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

the paper bag princess

The Paper Bag Princess

Reflexive pronouns are like mirrors—they both reflect back to the subject! Use this lesson with your students to give them practice correctly using reflexive pronouns in sentences.

reflect with reflexive pronouns

Reflect with Reflexive Pronouns

Help ease your students into the school year with this lesson that helps them share their feelings about the first day of school. 

first day of school with marley

First Day of School with Marley!

In this lesson, students will explore the characteristics of arrays and find out why they are important. Use this lesson independently or alongside Come Array With Us! 

what are arrays

What Are Arrays?

Help your students understand what cause and effect looks like in everyday situations! This hands-on, engaging lesson plan allows students to examine cause and effect in their own lives as well as fictional text! 

learning about cause and effect

Learning About Cause and Effect!

This lesson focuses on the comprehension of fables and folktales in order to identify a moral or lesson.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Finding the Moral lesson plan.

whats the moral

What's the Moral?

Increase student comprehension by teaching your students strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for the Be a Nonfiction Detective lesson.

unknown words

Unknown Words

Introduce the concept of author’s purpose in fiction texts with this fun reading lesson! Students will discuss three examples of fictional texts to determine the purpose of each.

authors purpose in fiction texts

Author’s Purpose in Fiction Texts

This lesson provides teachers with an opportunity to teach students about reading stamina and assess student comprehension during independent reading.

increasing reading stamina and comprehension

Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension

In this literary lesson, students use fairy tales to practice identifying character traits. Students are challenged to justify their reasoning using text based support.

fairy tales character traits

Fairy Tales: Character Traits

Deliberate practice of gratitude is a powerful way to grow happiness and build resilience. In this lesson, students will create a book as a way of reflecting on being human and practicing gratitude.

i am human

I Am Human

Word problems getting you down? Then spread the word on a lesson that will help students decide when to add or subtract, as they identify clue words that aid in solving word problems. 

solving word problems

Solving Word Problems

Get your students excited about telling time with this engaging lesson. Students will practice identifying intervals on an analog clock, and use this knowledge to tell time in 5 minute intervals. 

rock around the clock

Rock Around the Clock

Let Amelia Bedelia introduce figurative language in this fun and interactive lesson that includes a game, group work and a chance for students to shine as idiom authors!

oh my word with amelia bedelia

“Oh, My Word!” with Amelia Bedelia

Use this lesson to help students build their speaking and listening skills as they learn how to critique a flawed response using discussion cards. Use this as a stand-alone support lesson or alongside the activity Break it Down!

think about what went wrong

Think About What Went Wrong!

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

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems.  Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

building fluency with punctuation

Building Fluency with Punctuation

Students will be able to answer questions to show understanding of important details in a text. This can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to be used prior to the Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How? lesson plan.

all about the 5 ws

All About the 5 W's

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

In this fun lesson, students will get to imagine what a day in the life of the Easter Bunny might look like! All the while practicing their narrative writing skills.

a day in the life of the easter bunny

A Day in the Life of the Easter Bunny

Need a promotion? Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you! Give students the opportunity to place teachers in the spotlight, as they persuade others why teachers make the best presidents.

my teacher for president

My Teacher for President!

Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.

whats that number

What's That Number?

This lesson provides students with instruction in strategies based on number sense. Use this lesson alongside Show Me the Money: Understanding Value or as a stand-alone lesson. 

purchasing items and making change

Purchasing Items and Making Change

Students will work together as well as individually to add up coins to a desired amount. This real life skill will be made fun when students get to physically count out their cents!

add it up counting money

Add It Up! Counting Money

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.

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