Students will learn to structure their written arguments as they create their own class paper full of opinion editorial pieces in this fun, real-world driven lesson. Step right up and write all about it!

Build words with this fun lesson for emergent readers. Using beads and pipe cleaners, your students will enjoy working with manipulatives to create three- and four-letter words!

Let's write some simple sentences. This creative lesson has students pairing subjects and predicates to create their own expressive statements.

Is it a fact or an opinion? In this lesson, students practice identifying and writing different facts and opinions.

Your students will enjoy reading the classic story “The Ugly Duckling,” written about a very lovable duck! This reading lesson also includes a fun partner activity to help your students practice comprehension.

A good writer doesn't leave his readers waiting. Help your young authors pen some descriptive sentences and narrative paragraphs right now with this teacher-approved lesson.

We all love to tell stories, but a good story is clearly organized. In this lesson students will learn how to use transition words and strong endings when writing narratives.

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.

It's time to make—and hide—animals! In this lesson, students read a story about camouflage and then create their own animals to hide. Finally, students write an informational paragraph to describe their animals' hiding powers.

Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to enter space. Use the Get to Know Mae Jemison lesson plan to learn more about this famous scientist. Children will then read and write about her, and create their own paper rocket.

It is important for students to stop and think as they read. This activity/lesson is a fun and quick way to see how students are thinking as they read.

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

Write on! Give your students the chance to express themselves with this engaging lesson. Your class will write expressive opinion essays to develop cognitive awareness.

Students will use the classroom word wall to read and spell tricky sight words.

In this lesson, students use descriptive adjectives to write interesting sentences and create pictures.

Use a fun letter writing activity to help your students read and spell words containing -k and -ck endings.

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

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

Engage students in reading grade-level texts by making and testing predictions. Your students will be excited to read on to find out if their predictions are correct!

As students reread nonfiction, have them draw or write new information they learn. Students then share these new learnings with reading partners.

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

This lesson will help your students write proper telling sentences. It features exercises for describing objects, writing descriptions, and fixing sentences.

Play a fun and interesting game with your students in this lesson! Your students will copy words that you write to become more familiar with new vocabulary!

Get excited about poetry! This lesson will encourage your students to practice their writing skills as they write their very own list poems about animals.

Do your students respect their peers' opinions? This lesson teaches first graders that their opinions matter by encouraging them to write out opinions and back them up with reasons.

Help your class' creativity blossom with this lesson that has them make unique animals out of leaves and write about them.

What better way to represent what you’ve learned than through an infographic? In this lesson, students read nonfiction texts then create infographics to share the main topics, key ideas, evidence, and more!

We don’t want arguments in the classroom, right? Actually arguments aren’t all bad! In this lesson, students learn to write argumentative essays.

Help your first graders learn word formation with this lesson that has them create a new word and write a story about it.