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| The Star-Spangled Banner: Do They Rhyme?: | This is lesson #2 in the text unit series for The Star-Spangled Banner. As the text is read aloud, students will listen for rhyming words. After hearing the text, students will be presented with word pairs from the text. They will then practice making decisions by voting “yes” or “no" to tell whether the words are rhyming pairs. Students will work together to name another word(s) that rhymes with the words from the text. Civics content is integrated as the students vote to tell if the words are rhyming pairs and work together to make a decision as they name additional rhyming words.
This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource. |
| My Strengths: | Students will create a poster that includes a drawing of themselves performing an identified strength. Students and the teacher will discuss and list the many different strengths that children have and things that they can do all by themselves. Students will then focus on one strength that they would like to write and draw about. In this lesson, students will create a self-portrait and add writing or writing attempts to complete a given sentence frame.
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| Monkey Business: A Problem: | In this close reading lesson, the teacher will read aloud Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. Students will answer text-dependent questions and explain the meaning of new vocabulary. They will identify sight words and choral read repetitive parts of the text. Students will identify the setting, characters, and important events (including the problem and solution) and record these on a story map. They will retell the story and create a tri-fold book with illustrations and sentences explaining the beginning, middle, and end of the story. After analyzing the text, students will draw and dictate or write to explain the problem and solution in the text. |
| Colors All Around Us: Using Colors to Describe Our World: | In this lesson, students will use the beautiful text Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger to explore how an author uses color words and illustrations to describe various real-world objects. They will identify and explain how the descriptive words provide meaning and how the illustrations support the text. Students will brainstorm real-life objects that can be described and classified using color words and write an expository piece to describe those objects. |
| Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?: | In this 5-day lesson, students will engage in a variety of activities using the beloved Dr. Seuss books, Green Eggs and Ham and Wacky Wednesday. Students will explain the roles of the author and illustrator of a story. They will identify rhyming words in the stories and produce additional words that rhyme. Students will answer text-dependent questions to complete a story map and sequencing graphic organizer about each story. Using the graphic organizers, students will retell the stories. Finally, students will choose their favorite Dr. Seuss book and write an opinion statement telling why the book is their favorite. |
| Supermarket Sorting: | In this lesson, in a hands-on activity, students will practice sorting food items from the grocery store into different categories. The teacher will read aloud Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert and send students on a scavenger hunt to find and record pictures of fruits and vegetables that are hung around the room. Students will be asked to provide an opinion of what they think is the best fruit or vegetable during a writing assignment and explain why they like it. Then each student will draw a picture of that food on a paper plate to display with their writing. |
| Beach Sort: | In this lesson, students will have hands-on experience with categorization skills, by sorting objects commonly taken on a beach trip. Students will practice describing objects, sorting objects into categories, and verbalizing category concepts. Students will also practice discussing opinions about objects by writing a Beach Sorting Book. |
| Where Are the Words?: Exploring the Power of Illustrations: | As part of learning about Concepts of Print, students will explore how some books do not have words and you need to "read" the pictures to understand what is happening. The book, Chalk by Bill Thomson will be used to inspire the students to add writing to his book as they dream what they would draw if they knew their chalk drawings would come to life. |
| Who Says Please and Thank You?: | In this lesson, students will recall information from a read aloud text and discuss what it means to demonstrate good manners. Activities include contributing to a good manners chart, composing a sentence using a sentence frame demonstrating understanding of the conventions of standard English and practicing spelling words in creative ways. At the end of the lesson, students will create a Good Manners page for a class book, sharing a time when they have shown good manners. |
| My Caterpillar Loves to Eat!: | In this lesson, students will listen to the teacher read aloud the well-loved book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Students will collaboratively practice retelling the story with a partner and record the food that the caterpillar ate on a class chart. Using their imagination, students will create a sentence and accompanying illustration of what their caterpillar would eat using the high frequency word ‘and’. Teachers are provided with a rubric to assess how the students are using punctuationusing punctuation, capitalization, finger spacing, and phonetic spelling. |
| It's All in the Details: | In this multi-day lesson, students will learn about American holidays as they analyze grade-appropriate informational text. Students will learn to identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book and their text features. They will also learn how to use the text features (title, headings, and illustrations) to predict the topic of the book. As the teacher reads the book, students will confirm the topic and identify important details, recording them on a graphic organizer. Finally, students will use details from the graphic organizer to draw, dictate, and/or write an expository piece about the topic of the text. |
| ABC Text-plorers: | In this lesson, students will go on an exploration of alphabet books to better understand the roles of authors and illustrators as well as print concepts, including uppercase and lowercase letters. After reading the books Alphabet Rescue, Miss Spider's ABC, The Mixed-Up Alphabet, and LMNO Peas, students will contribute to class discussions and create a class alphabet book. After reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, students will complete an uppercase and lowercase letter sort art project that will be used as a summative assessment while the teacher individually tests students on their understanding of print concepts and letter recognition. |
| What's the Big Idea?: | In this multi-day lesson, students will learn about American symbols as they analyze grade-appropriate informational text. Students will learn to identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book and their text features. They will also learn how to use the text features (title, headings, and illustrations) to predict the topic of the book. As the teacher reads the book, students will confirm the topic and identify important details, recording them on a graphic organizer. Finally, students will use details from the graphic organizer to draw, dictate, and/or write an expository piece about the topic of the text. |
| Wild about Authors and Illustrators: | In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through read-alouds, charades, and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will learn how to describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in a story. Students will also identify the beginning, middle, and end in popular picture books and will write and illustrate a simple narrative with a partner. |
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| Phonemic Awareness: Sound Changes: | In this activity, students will substitute specific sounds in words to create new words. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Word Change: | In this activity, students will delete the second phoneme in an initial blend and select the picture that represents the new word. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Swap: | In this activity, students will decide which phoneme has been changed by comparing two pictures. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Position Sort: | In this activity, students will sort pictures based on the location (initial, medial, final) of phoneme substitution. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Make It, Find It, Keep It: | In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. In an extension activity, students can segment and count the phonemes in each word and sort by the number of phonemes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Pie: | In this activity, students will delete final phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. |
| Phonemic Awareness: What's Left?: | In this activity, students will delete initial phonemes in words and select the picture that represents the new word. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Break and Make: | In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes to make words by playing a picture card game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Split and Say: | In this activity, students will segment and blend phonemes in words using Elkonin boxes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Challenge: | In this activity, students will segment phonemes in words by playing a counting game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: The Phoneme Game: | In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words while playing a board game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Counting Sort: | In this activity, students will segment and count phonemes in words and sort by number. |
| Phonemic Awareness: What's My Word?: | In this activity, students will blend phonemes in words and select the corresponding picture. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Quest: | In this activity, students will isolate initial, medial, and final phonemes by comparing pictures. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Find: | In this activity, students will isolate medial phonemes by listening to words and choosing a picture that has the same medial sound. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Final Phoneme Find: | In this activity, students will isolate final phonemes by listening to words and choosing pictures with the same ending sound. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Bag-of-Sounds: | In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes in words represented by objects. As an extension, students may also identify the medial and final phonemes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Vowel Picture Sort: | In this activity, students will sort pictures based on vowel sounds (long and short). |
| Phonemic Awareness: Medial Phoneme Dominoes: | In this activity, students will match medial phonemes by playing dominoes. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Final Phomeme Spin: | In this activity, students will match final phonemes by playing a spinner game. |
| Phonemic Awareness: Match Maker: | In this activity, students will identify initial phonemes to match picture cards. |
| Fluency: Word Climb: | In this activity, students will quickly read and match high frequency words on a game board. |
| Fluency: I Read, You Point: | In this activity, students will quickly identify words on word cards as they are read aloud by a partner. |
| Fluency: Fast Words: | In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet while being timed. |
| Fluency: Word Relay: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Speedy Rime Words: | In this activity, students will quickly read words with the same rime in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Letter Flash: | In this activity, students will identify letters and their sounds in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Fluency Letter Wheel: | In this activity, students will say the names and sounds of letters and consonant digraphs on a spinner in a timed activity. |
| Fluency: Make a Match: | In this activity, students will match initial sounds to letters while playing a timed memory game. |
| Fluency: Tap Stack: | In this activity, students will identify letters while playing a card game. |
| Fluency: Hungry Letter Mouse: | In this activity, students will quickly write and name the letters of the alphabet. In an extension activity, students will say the sound for each letter. |
| Fluency: Speedy Alphabet Arc: | In this activity, students will gain speed and accuracy in letter recognition. |
| Phonics: Word Bowling: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a bowling game. |
| Phonics: Word Memory Game: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game. |
| Phonics: Word Baseball: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a baseball game. |
| Phonics: Word Fishing: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a "fishing" game. |
| Phonics: Word Checkers: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while they play a checkers game. |
| Phonics: Sandpaper Words: | In this activity, students will read high frequency words. |
| Phonics: A Digraph A Word: | In this activity, students will segment names of pictures into phonemes and use letter tiles to spell each word. |
| Phonics: Make-A-Word: | In this activity, students will segment names of pictures into phonemes and use letters to make each word. |
| Phonics: Digraph Delight: | In this activity, students will make words using digraph and letter spinners. |
| Phonics: Three-In-One: | In this activity, students will use consonant and vowel cards to make words. |
| Phonics: Letter Cube Blending: | In this activity, students will make words using consonant and vowel cubes. |
| Phonics: Word Steps: | In this activity, students will make words by manipulating one letter at a time. |
| Phonics: Vowel Stars: | In this activity, the student will blend sounds of letters to make words. |
| Phonics: Word Maker Game: | In this activity, students will make words using onset and rime cards. |
| Phonics: Word Roll-A-Rama: | In this activity, students will make words using onset and rime cubes. |
| Phonics: Change-A-Word: | In this activity, students will make words by matching and blending onsets and rimes. |
| Phonics: Word Swat: | In this activity, students will make words by matching and blending onsets and rimes. |
| Phonics: Rime Closed Sort: | In this activity, students will sort words by rimes. |
| Phonics: Say It Now: | In this activity, students will make words by selecting various letters (onsets) to complete provided rimes. |
| Phonics: Picture the Word: | In this activity, students select onsets (initial sounds) to complete words using pictures as clues. |
| Phonics: Onset and Rime Slide: | In this activity, students will make words using a variety of onsets (including blends and digraphs) and sliding rime strips (including short, long, and variable vowels). They will also determine if the new word is real or nonsense. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Match: | In this activity, students will match initial, final, and medial sounds of words (picture cards) to letters, filling in a missing letter for each word. |
| Phonics: Where's That Sound: | In this activity, students will determine if a sound, represented by a targeted letter, is the initial or final sound in a word. |
| Phonics: Medial Phoneme Spin: | In this activity, students will match medial sounds of words (picture cards) to letters while playing a spinner game. As an extension, students can also match initial or final sounds of words to letters. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Bingo: | In this activity, students will match medial sounds of words (picture cards) to letters while playing a game. As an extension, students can also match initial and final sounds of words to letters. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Mobile: | In this activity, students will match medial sound picture cards to targeted letters while making a mobile. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Train: | In this activity, students will match medial sounds in words to the target letter on a train. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Folder Sort: | In this activity, students will match final sound picture cards to letters/letter combinations that represent targeted sounds. |
| Phonics: Letter Bag: | In this activity, the student will match the final sound of a word to the letter that represents that sound. As an extension, the student can also match the initial or medial sound of a word to the corresponding letter. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Dominoes: | In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that represent that sound. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Pyramid: | In this activity, students will match final sounds of words to corresponding letters while playing a pyramid game. As an extension, students can also match words with digraphs and vowel teams. |
| Phonics: Words Around Us Memory Game: | In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that represents that sound. |
| Phonics: Letter-Sound Place Mats: | In this activity, students will select words (images) that have the same initial sound as their names. |
| Phonics: Photo Chart: | In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that makes that sound. |
| Phonics: Brown Bag It: | In this activity, the student will match the initial sound of a word to the letter that represents that sound. |
| Phonics: Lettercritter: | In this activity, the student will identify and order the letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Venn Diagram Letter Name Sort: | In this activity, the student will identify and sort letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Alphabet Tiles Name Sort: | In this activity, the student will identify and sort letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Alphabet Memory Game: | In this activity, the student will identify and match letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Poetry Pen: | In this activity, the student will identify letters of the alphabet within words in nursery rhymes. As an extension, the student may also identify high-frequency words within the text. |
| Phonics: Pasta Names: | In this activity, the student will identify letters of the alphabet. NOTE: The student will need to name the letters in the name or word for this activity to align to the standard. |
| Phonics: Sorting Letters: | In this activity, the student will identify letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Clip-A-Letter: | In this activity, the student will name and match letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Alphabet Arc: | In this activity, the student will name and match letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonics: Letter Cards: | In this activity, the student will name and match letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonological Awareness: Name Changes: | In this activity, the student will manipulate phonemes in words by substituting initial, medial, or final sounds to create a new word. |
| Phonological Awareness: Drop and Say: | In this activity, the student will manipulate phonemes in words by deleting the beginning or ending sound to create a new word. |
| Phonological Awareness: Picture Slide: | In this activity, the student will segment and blend phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Treasure Chest: | In this activity, the student will segment and blend phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Feud: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Spin: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: The Sound Game: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Hopscotch: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Closed Sort: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words and sort the words (picture cards) based on the number of phonemes. As an extension activity, the student can also sort picture cards based on the number of syllables in the word. |
| Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Photos: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Say and Slide Phonemes: | In this activity, the student will segment phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Quest: | In this activity, the student will isolate initial, final, and medial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Move and Tell: | In this activity, the student will isolate medial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: The Last Sound Is...: | In this activity, students will use final sound clues to identify objects. |
| Phonological Awareness: See It – Sound It: | In this activity, the student will identify initial phonemes in words. As an extension activity, students can also identify the final sound in words and count the syllables in each word. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Pictures and Picture Puzzles: | In this activity, the student will match medial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Bags: | In this activity, students will match medial phonemes in words. As an extension, students can also match objects with the same initial or final sounds. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Pie: | In this activity, the student will match final phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Final Sound Match-Up: | In this activity, the student will match final phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound It–Bag It: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Dominoes: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Go Fish: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Pack-A-Backpack: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Train: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Snacker - Sound Smacker: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Guessing Game: | In this activity, the student will manipulate onsets and rimes in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sound Detective: | In this activity, the student will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. The student will also match rimes by identifying rhyming words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rime House: | In this activity, students will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. They will also match words with the same rime (rhyming words). |
| Phonological Awareness: Quick Pick: | In this activity, the student will segment and blend onsets and rimes in words. As an extension, the student will produce a rhyming word to match the picture. |
| Phonological Awareness: Syllable Say: | In this activity, the student will segment and blend syllables in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Syllable Graph: | In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Syllable Hopscotch: | In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Feed the Animals: | In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Clapping Names: | In this activity, the student will segment syllables in words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sentence Graph: | In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables. |
| Phonological Awareness: Sentence Game: | In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables. |
| Phonological Awareness: Nursery Rhymes: | In this activity, the student will segment sentences into words. This skill is typically taught prior to the segmentation of syllables. To fully align to the standard, this activity will need to be extended to include the segmentation of each word in the sentence into syllables. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Flip Book: | In this activity, the student will recognize and produce rhyming words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyming Game: | In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Memory Match: | In this activity, the student will recognize and match rhyming words. As an extension activity, the student will match words based on initial sounds. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Pie: | In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Closed Sort: | In this activity, the student will identify rhyming words by completing a closed sort. As an extension activity, the student will complete a closed sort based on initial sounds. |
| Phonological Awareness: Pocket Rhymes: | In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. As an extension, the student can segment the onset and rime of matching pairs. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyming A-LOT-OH!: | In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. |
| Phonological Awareness: Rhyme or No Rhyme: | In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. |
| Phonological Awareness:Rhyme or no Rhyme: | In this activity, the student will recognize rhyming words. |
| Phonics: Alphabet Borders: | In this activity, the student will name and match letters of the alphabet. |
| Phonological Awareness: One Card Out: | In this activity, the student will match initial phonemes in words. |
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