LAFS.K.RI.4.10Archived Standard

In this lesson students will demonstrate an understanding of characteristics of real and make-believe animals, they will sort animals according to characteristics, and they will complete a drawing of a make-believe animal home in a real-world habitat.

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In this lesson, students are engaged in a science project where the local library is hosting a book writing contest. Students will brainstorm ideas, work in rotating center stations, complete checklists and create a nonfiction book about how plant and animals are alike and different featuring what they learned about plants and animals during the lesson.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson students will participate in reading the books A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink (ATOS 3.3), To Root, to Toot, to Parachute (ATOS 3.7), and Hairy, Scary, Ordinary (ATOS 3.9) and complete a variety of related activities that allow them to learn and practice their knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Students will contribute to a class generated grammar chart and at the completion of the lesson they will complete a grammar sort. Students will also publish their own sentence which will include a noun, verb, and adjective, as well as an illustration to provide detail.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson demonstrates how students can use cause and effect to describe how objects move using a push or pull (forces). The students will understand that forces put objects in motion and that a strong force could change the direction and speed of an object.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson demonstrates how students can compare and contrast multiple texts about the same topic to understand how gravity pulls objects to the center of the earth.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will be animal investigators on a mission to learn all about pigs and wolves. With prompting and support from the teacher, students will read an informational text about pigs (Pigs by Robin Nelson) and wolves (Wolves by Michael Dahl). They will use information gathered to contribute to a class discussion about the characteristics of real pigs and wolves. Then, the teacher will read The Three Little Pigs (written by Anne Walters and Daniel Postgate) to the students and help them complete a Venn diagram comparing what they observed in The Three Little Pigs to what they know to be true of real pigs and wolves. In order to determine mastery of the concept, the students will complete a picture sort of Real and Imaginary Pigs and Wolves. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain how they make an informed decision about whether an animal is real or imaginary.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer to record their observations on sorting matter from the read aloud book Sorting by Lynn Peppas.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will become informative investigators through whole group and independent activities about presidents and Presidents' Day. Students will identify basic similarities and differences between multiple texts to contribute to a class-generated Venn Diagram as well as an independent Venn Diagram. Students will practice generating ideas and details for a class-created informative writing piece and by creating their own informative writing piece based on what they learned through the lessons' texts.

Type: Lesson Plan

Book Summary: With simple text and beautiful illustrations, Frank Asch captures a young girl's fascination with the sun.

Objective: Children will read common high-frequency words on their own and engage in an art and writing activity to expand language and creative-thinking skills, and relate the story to real-life experiences.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this activity, students will predict if text-related statements are true or false, then confirm their predictions after reading the text.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will generate and answer questions to comprehend text.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will monitor comprehension before, during, and after reading using a graphic organizer. 

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify facts and opinions.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will identify facts and opinions while playing a game. As an extension, students can create their own facts and opinions while playing the game.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will sort statements into fact and opinion categories.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will monitor comprehension before, during, and after reading text using a K-W-L chart. 

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will make and check predictions about text. 

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will make and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading teacher-selected text (narrative or informational) using a graphic organizer.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will answer questions to comprehend text.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will use multiple strategies to monitor their comprehension of text.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will use multiple strategies to monitor their comprehension of text.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, students will use multiple strategies (e.g., prior knowledge, ask and answer questions, make and confirm predictions, summarize) to comprehend narrative or expository text.

Type: Student Center Activity