Students will learn about the holiday El Día de los Muertos through engaging activities and connecting to their own traditions.

Are your students ready to become detectives? This engaging lesson will have them searching for clues while improving their reading skills.

This lesson plan teaches students about Jean-Michel Basquiat and his life as a child. First, students will listen to a story and figure out the main topic and details. Next, students will be asked to think deeply about what it means to be an artist and some of the types of art they like to create. Perfect for first graders and second graders, the lesson Black Artists: Basquiat highlights reading informational texts and building vocabulary.

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Subtraction can be learned and practiced through a pictograph! In this lesson, your students will become more comfortable with subtracting numbers.

Students will skip with happiness as they practice counting by twos. This lesson will help prepare them to multiply numbers later.

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

Bring nursery rhymes to life by composing original songs! In this lesson, students develop reading fluency skills while experimenting with music composition.

Help your students learn to count money with this teacher-approved lesson. They'll love learning how much their favorite things are worth.

Opposites attract! In this lesson, your students will practice matching antonyms. They will expand their vocabulary by knowing more words to use!

In this lesson plan, students learn about the first all-female spacewalk and get inspired by astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.

Get ready to see green! In this lesson, students get hands-on experience creating trees and then measuring to compare the trees.

In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of communities and will learn how to locate their communities on a map.

How big is the furniture in your classroom? Get ready to find out! In this lesson, students dive into measuring with yardsticks.

Have your students stretch their creativity with this lesson that teaches them about haikus and has them practice their syllable counting.

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

In this hands on activity students will explore the advantages and disadvantages of specialization and interdependence through their creation of paper bugs.

Get ready to do some shopping! In this lesson, students will learn about subtracting 100 from multiples of 100 when making big purchases.

Action verbs bring writing to life! After examining different action verbs, students put them to use when writing their own stories about recess.

Your students will love playing the classic game of bingo, with a twist to practice reading and spelling grade level word families.

Get out the measuring tape and head outside! In this lesson, students gather measurement data and build a model of the school playground.

My dog is better! In this lesson, your students will combine reading, writing, and movement to practice distinguishing and supporting facts and opinions.

Test your students ability to find words as they practice reading and spelling words with ending consonant blends in a timed game!

This creative parts-of-speech lesson will have your students laughing out loud as they master making silly phrases using adjectives and nouns.

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson.

Help ease your students into the school year with this lesson that helps them share their feelings about the first day of school.

Inspire creativity in all of your students by giving them the tools they need to transform their simple sentences into longer, detailed descriptions.

What’s the difference between rhymes and rimes? Your students will become masters at using and explaining onset, rhyme, and rime after this lesson.

Using base ten blocks, cards, and clear cups, your students will practice the concept of borrowing for subtraction problems in this lesson.

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