ELs will get a chance to practice their listening and reading comprehension skills as they answer questions about the key details in a read-aloud text. Use as a stand-alone or pre-lesson for the Questions for Comprehension lesson plan.

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

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts in this fun under-the-sea-themed lesson plan.

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

Let’s share about ourselves! Students learn about past-tense verbs by writing a story about their past.

Introduce place value to your emerging mathematicians while focusing on the numbers 11–20. In this lesson, students will practice separating teen numbers into 10 ones and some additional ones using unifix cubes and ten frames.

This engaging lesson plan provides first and second grade students with an opportunity to learn all about female inventors.

Read aloud a hilarious story written from the perspective of a baby! Then use the story to launch your kindergarten journal writing. Students will love creating their very own writing journals.

Learn how to sort words that contain the short and long a sound using a fun word family sorting activity and an engaging song.

This social studies lesson gets students learning all about their communities. After reading an engaging book, students make their own community pictures.

This social studies lesson gets students learning all about different types of families. After reading an engaging book, students make their own family pictures.

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

Get excited about poetry! This lesson will encourage your students to practice their writing skills as they write their very own list poems about animals.

Read a well-loved story aloud to your second graders and inspire them to write funny titles. In this lesson, students will brainstorm outrageous titles of their very own!

In this lesson, students will practice comparing and contrasting texts...without even reading them! By looking closely at pictures and text features, students will be prepared to further compare fiction texts.

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

In this hilarious lesson plan filled with homophones, students will get to practice identifying and using multiple meaning words. This can be used on its own or as a pre-lesson for the Multiple Meaning Motivation lesson plan.

Second graders will become travel writers as they embark on this writing and editing adventure! This exciting writing lesson combines the delight of travel writing with the process of editing.

In this fun hands on lesson plan, your ELs will get to practice segmenting and blending words in a tactile way! This can be used as a stand alone lesson or as a support lesson plan for the Sound Smoothies lesson plan.

Kindergarten students will have a great time learning all about the letter H in this alphabet-centered lesson plan!

This lesson plan is a great way to introduce or review the concept of identifying letter sounds within CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. You can use this as a stand-alone lesson or a as a support lesson for the Read with Beads lesson plan.