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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Use a letter writing activity to teach your first graders about the three different ending sounds of past tense verbs.

Teach your students how to identify the main topic using story cards and an interactive read aloud in this engaging lesson.

Teach students to be stronger readers before they even begin reading! All they need is a book, their mind, and some sticky notes!

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

In this lesson, students will explore the trait of responsibility through the characters in a famous Dr. Seuss book. By the end, students’ character and knowledge about literacy will have grown.

This vocabulary boosting lesson is sure to excite young readers. By working in pairs, students will teach each other about a bunch of different sight words.