We all want to be good friends. But what does this look like? Help students to understand what it means to be a good friend by reading a story, acting out a skit, and creating a friendship picture.

A fun, engaging lesson that will teach your students about listening to the sounds in words to make rhyming words.

Your ELs will love getting creative as they make their very own sound machines to explore how common materials make different sounds. Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Can You Hear a Who? lesson plan.

Use this fun remake of the classic song, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" to teach your students all about long vowel sounds! Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Say My Name lesson plan.

Preschoolers will be head over heels about animals and their offspring in this lesson! Teach them animal names and the sounds they make.

Talking about erosion, pollution, and human destruction of the rainforest can help open up a whole new understanding of the world to young students. This lesson will help students to connect their lives with a bigger picture.

In this lesson, students will fill their barns with farm animals by matching, identifying, and connecting the sounds of letters with their symbols.

In this fun alphabet-focused lesson plan, students will learn all about vowels! With a special focus on the letter A, this is a great way to help your students learn all about short vowel sounds. Can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the A-E-I-O-U lesson plan.

What does that begin with? In this lesson, students will work on sorting pictures with the same initial consonant.

Get your students ready for reading using this fun phonemic awareness lesson plan focused on the letter M!

Playing make-believe and telling stories are favorite childhood pastimes. Thus, no matter their reading level, students will love the opportunity to “read” to others and explore pictures as they take a walk through books.

Have some fun sorting out short vowels in this animal-filled lesson!

Kindergarten students will become text feature detectives as they hunt for the different text features found in nonfiction books in this fun reading lesson.

Spring is here! You can feel it, hear it, smell it, taste it, and see it! In this spring lesson plan, students will create a spring poem using their five senses.

Use this helpful review or pre-lesson to introduce the idea that letters make the same sound, regardless of their place in a word. Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Same Sound Different Location lesson plan.

Caterpillars and the hard C sound come together in this colorful lesson. With help from the ever-popular The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will learn about metamorphosis while developing their phonics skills.

Let's look at vowels! Including technology will make this long vowel lesson into one students won’t forget.

Expand students’ reading knowledge by teaching that long vowels say their own names!

Get students excited for summer reading by creating some special “To Read” lists!

Satisfy your students' hunger for learning in this quick and fun letter recognition activity.

"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss is a favorite for children and grown-ups alike. In this lesson, your students will focus on Dr. Seuss's use of rhyming words in the story.

Students will build relationships and reading skills with this fun partner-themed lesson.

Who can resist popping bubble wrap? Students will love producing rhymes while jumping on or popping bubble wrap!

In this lesson, students will listen to a story and answer literacy questions throughout. They will then complete a math activity to go along with the story!

In this introductory math lesson, students will become familiar with the concept of counting and representing numbers with concrete materials. Your students will enjoy using their creativity as they practice representing the number three on their very own!

What's your favorite weather? In this lesson, students learn about different kinds of weather and share their favorites. Students then work together to determine which was the class's most and least popular weather.

Use this fun lesson plan as a stand alone or pre-lesson when introducing the concept of retelling a story to your ELs.

Use this lesson plan as a stand alone or support lesson to introduce or review nonfiction text features to your ELs.

Finding reasons to be grateful is a big part of the Thanksgiving season. Students won’t forget these reasons once they write them down!

Preschoolers can have a range of reading abilities. Find out what they know about letters and reading with this lesson plan!