Help students learn the crucial reading strategy of visualizing. Visualizing is a key component of learning to infer from a text. Kids will love using their imagination and drawing pictures of their visualizations.

Help students enrich their informational writing by learning to use text features.

What are the five senses and how do we use them everyday? Students get a chance to practice using sensory language as they think about the world around them. Can be used as a stand alone or support for the Writing a Five Senses Poem lesson.

Your students will love learning all about the playful characters in a classic read-aloud text while digging into what makes characters unique. Use as a stand-alone or support lesson for the How to Analyze a Character lesson plan.

Students can use their play skills to demonstrate subtraction. In this lesson, your students will use a familiar rhyme to practice subtraction.

Use this lesson plan as a stand alone or support lesson to introduce or review how to read and use sight words to your ELs.

Being a fluent reader means being able to use different strategies to figure out unknown words. In this lesson, students learn how to use pictures and context clues.

This is a great introductory lesson to teach students about the importance of illustrations when reading. It can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Introducing Reader's Workshop lesson plan.

In this lesson, students use descriptive adjectives to write interesting sentences and create pictures.

In this leafy, plant-themed lesson, students will use leaves as they practice recognizing various numbers from 1 to 15. This lesson can be easily adapted for use with specific ranges of numbers.

Students will use paper to create eye-popping texture and form with these self-portraits.

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

What says St. Patrick’s Day more than leprechauns? After reading a story, get students to use recycled materials to make their their own leprechaun traps. They will use the story's setting as inspiration for their projects!

Use a fun card game to practice adding numbers in this fun hands-on addition lesson!

Use Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" to inspire a fun watercolor resist painting with your students!

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

Use this introductory lesson on comparison to provide students with practice identifying groups of more and less.

Use a scavenger hunt, art activity, and stickers to help kindergarteners understand shapes and positional language.

Students will have oceans of fun as they use manipulatives to create math stories about subtraction.

Use this lesson to introduce, review, and teach pronouns! Your students will get to practice using these words and build their reading and language skills.

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles!

Use hands-on activities involving play dough to show your students the layers of the Earth!

Your students will use primary and their own mixed secondary colors to paint a beautiful still life.

Use this beginning of the year activity to practice counting! Students solidify an understanding of one-to-one correspondence as they compete to fill three towers. Use this EL Support Lesson alone, or alongside the lesson plan Counting Collections.

Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.

Use this engaging mystery bag lesson to practice addition patterns of one more with your curious kindergarteners!

Use this lesson plan that incorporates the classic Bingo game to reinforce number recognition from zero to 20!

Use a fun letter writing activity to help your students read and spell words containing -k and -ck endings.

Engage students in learning about data by analyzing picture graphs, then collecting data from classmates and making their own graphs!

Use this alphabet-focused lesson plan to teach your ELs all about beginning letter sounds.