Close reading isn’t about just ticking through words on a page; it’s about absorbing ideas and expanding on them. In this lesson, students will use this strategy to make interpretations about a character's emotions through their actions.

Help your students' understand the English language with this lesson that teaches them that there are word "twins" that look and sound the same but have different meanings.

Rhyming, moving, coloring and silliness...How can your class resist? Your students will love reading and moving with a poem, writing the letter S, and designing their own socks!

This is a great introductory lesson to teach about beginning blends. Kindergarten students will love learning all about how to blend consonants together while reading a hilarious story!

Students blend sounds all the time when they speak, but a whole new level of ssshhh is possible through selected literature and picture sorts!

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

Seeing things one word and letter at a time is a lot easier when students can cover them with fun materials!

Kids love being silly and they love making things their own. Your kindergarteners will adore the poems in this hilarious read aloud and love being able to write and perform their very own sensory language poetry!

Who where those two kids who went up that hill again? This lesson plan includes role playing with a familiar nursery rhyme.

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 them how to blend sounds. Students will love food, cooking and blending letter sounds by the end of this lesson.

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

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson.

Making flash cards is something done by students of all ages. Help your kids develop good study habits with this lesson plan, which will teach them how to use flash cards and a dictionary to learn new vocabulary.

Students will enjoy this fast-paced lesson as they incorporate acting, reading, and detective work while learning how to use context clues in fiction.

Smaller dictionaries that are totally relevant to the material being read? In this lesson, students will learn that these miraculously really do exist and go by the name of glossaries!

A lesson about the Great Depression doesn't have to depress your students! They will enjoy building background knowledge for Bud, Not Buddy with great interactive and cooperative learning tasks.

Help your students connect with a classic read-aloud as they learn about the relationship between illustrations and text.

Do your students realize that every word has a vowel? Help them to hear the vowel sounds all around them in this lesson.

This lesson helps kindergartners express their emotions about moving to first grade. Featuring The Night Before First Grade by Natasha Wing, it gives young students ample time to introspect, write, and draw.

In this fun hands on lesson, students will be introduced to and get practice using positional language!

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

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

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

Help your class understand what makes AEIO and U so special with this lesson that helps them differentiate between vowels and consonants.

Help students learn the sight word "am" through music, movement, and color. This quirky language lesson is guaranteed to nourish your kindergartner's vocabulary skills.

Teach your students four simple steps to help them solve multiplication and division word problems with confidence.

Young students often struggle to see the small details in a bigger picture. Help their reading and observation skills with this interactive lesson!

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.

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.