Using a word/letter finder children will identify and differentiate letters and words. This is a beginning of the year Kindergarten activity.
Japanese audio clip slides on settings and people
Student will write an "about me" piece.
This is a sample lesson that can be applied to any book to help students learn new vocabulary words.
Students will listen to a familiar story with repetitive lines that the children can remember. They will make puppets and retell the story in small groups with an adult volunteer or an older child.
Activities focus on the importance of children's names and helps build a sense of community in the classroom.
Students will be exposed to two non-fiction books, both telling the same true story. They will make connections, gain knowledge, and learn the history behind a well loved children's character. They will analyze the different perspectives presented by each author. After listening to the story students will answer questions.
To help improve the students oral reading fleuncy, this activity can be applied to any grade appropriate reading material.
Use the narrative text, "The Old Woman and Her Pig" to introduce comprehension strategies. Students will learn to make predictions and check them, along with clarifying and retelling.
This activity teaches children six question words: who, what, when, where, why and how.
This activity uses the book "The Patchwork Quilt", by Valerie Flournoy to give students the sense of family in the classroom community.
Students will participate in reader's theater to improve their oral reading skills.
This 14 day Unit Plan integrates the Utah Core Standards for Language Arts and for Reading and Writing in History/Social Studies with the existing Utah Social Studies Standards. The students read, research, draw conclusions, and write beginning level argumentative essays comparing/contrasting major world religions. For a more thorough summary see the Background For Teachers section.
Students will learn about retelling and performing stories from other cultures.
Integrate literature with science by reading Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Students will learn to describe rocks by using different physical properties.
Students will create a class chart showing what they are wearing. They will also become "season watchers" to help them understand the seasons.
Students will write a personal narrative about a time they surprised themselves or someone else.
Students will write a personal narrative about their best day of school.
After reading Eric Carle's story "The Tiny Seed", students will make a seed house and write observations in their discovery journal.
This activity introduces the concept of segmentation and blending words.