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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. 

Teach About Odd & Even Numbers

Even though they may be young, every child is an expert in something! In this lesson, students will learn how to share this expert knowledge with others. 

Sharing Expert Knowledge

Using charts is a great way to see similarities, differences, and information. This visual lesson will help all students see what can be gained from nonfiction and fiction texts.

Knowledge Charting

In this lesson, your students will use the background knowledge that they have about counting and sorting to graph data. They will practice answering questions about the graph!

Graphing Colored Counters

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles! 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Butterfly's Life Cycle

Use this lesson to teach your students about the appropriate wardrobe for the different seasons. Also, teach them about the wonderful holidays of each season!

Which is Your Favorite Season?

Use this lesson to teach your students about facts and opinions. Teach them that a certain belief that they have about someone or something is not a fact! 

Facts and Opinions: What's the Truth?

Use this lesson to explicitly teach unknown vocabulary words to students using structured language practice strategies. This can be used a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Vocabulary Focus

Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.

Geometry Puzzles

Pop into place! This lessons builds your students&#39; knowledge of numbers, their place value, and how to write them correctly.

Popping Numbers

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies. 

Cookie Fractions Fun!

Use storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this interactive lesson. 

Words That Make Us Feel: A Lesson on Sensory Language

Get ready to teach all about time with a fun game that has students match the time on analog and digital clocks. Use alone or with **The Clock Struck What?**

Clock Concentration

Teach your second graders how to write a prediction and summarize book chapters in this exciting lesson!

Summaries and Predictions

Use this lesson to introduce, review, and teach pronouns! Your students will get to practice using these words and build their reading and language skills.

Pronoun Unit

Teach your students to recognize systems in the world around them by identifying systems that exist in their classroom.

Exploring Systems with a Classroom Systems Hunt

Introduce hundreds place value to your students. Increase their knowledge of place value while they enjoy working with ones, tens and hundreds blocks.

Ones, Tens, and Hundreds

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

Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Use a playful theater activity to teach your first graders how to change a verb from the present to the past tense.

Learning About Words: Past Tense

This nifty lesson helps kinesthetic learners reinforce their knowledge of the commutative property. Students will love the challenge of matching equations with their fact families.

Where is my Fact Family?

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages. 

How to Find the Main Idea

Use this lesson to teach your students about the life of Frederick Douglass. First, they will read a picture book that shares facts and beautiful illustrations to teach about his life, and then they will record important information about him on a graphic organizer. Lastly, they'll choose an important event from his life to illustrate and caption.

Who Was Frederick Douglass?

Build community and teach students that opinions matter with this activity that includes survey interviews and a letter to the teacher.

Dear Teacher: Opinion Letters

Cooking up a delicious Peanut Butter and Jelly is as simple as writing a how-to story in this lesson designed to teach students the different parts of a how-to story. Everyone will walk away with their heads and tummies filled! 

Cooking Up a How-To Story

Teach your students about living and nonliving things with this interactive lesson that keeps your class engaged as they learn!

Identifying Living and Nonliving Things

This lesson provides teachers with an opportunity to teach students about reading stamina and assess student comprehension during independent reading.

Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension

Teach your students to read time to the nearest five minutes by counting by fives! Use this lesson as a stand-alone support lesson for ELs or alongside Tricky Time Telling. 

Telling Time Using Skip Counting

Get ready to teach students strategies for understanding new words! Students will practice strategies to read new words in nonfiction books. This lesson can be used alone or with the New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction lesson plan.

Figuring Out Tricky Words

Use this lesson to help students identify the elements of a fictional text while gaining more knowledge about parts of speech. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements.

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