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Reading Inventories

Reading Inventories

Want to engage students in reading? Give them books that they want to read! This lesson will give you a chance to learn about your readers so that you can best support them to become fluent readers.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Classroom Map

Have you ever had to explain to someone where something is? Learning to create a map is a fun way to show where objects and places are.

2nd grade

Social studies

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Proper Noun Town

Proper Noun Town

Knowing when to capitalize can be confusing. This lesson serves as a review on which types of nouns require a capital letter. Students will love designing their own towns while learning about the distinction between common and proper nouns.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Add It Up! Counting Money

Add It Up! Counting Money

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!

2nd grade

Math

Lesson plan

I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.

I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. played a big role in shaping America into the country that it is today. This lesson plan will help your students understand how important he was and help them dream as he did.

1st grade

Lesson plan

Sticky Reading Comprehension

Sticky Reading Comprehension

Sometimes students struggle with comprehension, and it can be difficult to pinpoint where the breakdown occurs. Help your students make visual summaries on sticky notes in this lesson!

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

All About the Thirteen Colonies

All About the Thirteen Colonies

Teach your students about the location of the first thirteen states on the United States map. Use this lesson plan to let them sing and move their bodies to learn about the thirteen colonies.

2nd grade

Social studies

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Are You a Producer or a Consumer?

Are You a Producer or a Consumer?

In this lesson, your students will learn about their roles as consumers and producers in a community through engaging activities and discussion.

2nd grade

Social studies

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Addition with Regrouping Center

Addition with Regrouping Center

Make addition with regrouping easy with this lesson plan that makes the task a visual learning experience.

2nd grade

Math

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Teach About Odd & Even Numbers

Teach About Odd & Even Numbers

Sometimes the best way to learn about something is to teach it! This lesson helps second graders become the experts on odd and even numbers as they prepare to teach younger students.

2nd grade

Math

Lesson plan

Punctuation & Prosody

Punctuation & Prosody

Are your second graders struggling with reading comprehension? Help them understand how prosody can help their understanding of the text with this reading lesson plan.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Changing Up The Y

Changing Up The Y

What happens when you make the plural form of nouns that end with “y?” It depends. Help students learn the two rules for these plural nouns in this engaging lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Give Me Five Minutes

Give Me Five Minutes

What time is it? Give your students an overview of time with this colorful lesson. They'll have a great time manipulating clock hands and completing a variety of worksheets.

2nd grade

Math

Lesson plan

Typing 101: Introduction to Home Keys and Finger Placement

Typing 101: Introduction to Home Keys and Finger Placement

Teach your students about the basics of typing from the convenience of your classroom. Before heading to the computer lab, help your students familiarize themselves with the home keys and finger placements in a fun and interactive way!

Kindergarten

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Emotion Charades

Emotion Charades

Help your ELs practice identifying how their peers are feeling to develop emotions vocabulary and support comprehension. It can be used as a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Inflectional Endings: -ing

Inflectional Endings: -ing

Use a silly movie clip and fun activity to teach your second graders how to spell and recognize words with the inflectional ending *-ing*.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Alphabetical Order

Alphabetical Order

Students will practice real world organizing as they learn how to alphabetize the classroom library.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Using the 5 W's

Using the 5 W's

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about nouns and practice retelling a story with a 5 W's graphic organizer. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

More Than One: Irregular Plural Nouns

More Than One: Irregular Plural Nouns

Foots or feet? In this lesson, students will identify irregular plural nouns. They will learn that some plural nouns don't follow any spelling rules.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Up, Up, and Array

Up, Up, and Array

In this lesson, your students will use repeated addition to find the total number of objects in arrays. This lesson will help your students build upon the skills needed to learn multiplication.

2nd grade

Math

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Fact or Opinion: Part 1

Fact or Opinion: Part 1

Cats are the best! Pizza is better! My teacher rules! In Fact or Opinion: Part 1, your students will combine reading and writing to learn about the differences between facts and opinions and how those differences are communicated.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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The Paper Bag Princess

The Paper Bag Princess

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.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements

Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements

Story elements help to bring beloved fairy tales to life in this literacy lesson. Your students will learn to identify the title, author, setting, characters, problem, and solution in a fiction text.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Adding it All Up

Adding it All Up

In this lesson, students will learn how to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number. This will help students build upon the skills needed for regrouping larger numbers.

1st grade

Math

Lesson plan

Subtraction Stories

Subtraction Stories

Let’s make subtraction real! In this lesson, students dive into three-digit subtraction by solving real-world word problems.

2nd grade

Math

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