Curriculum » NC Standard Course of Study & aligned resources
English Language Arts — Grade 1
Goal 4, Objective 4.06
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Tacky the Penguin
- After reading the story, Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester, the students will write their own Tacky story. The students will brainstorm ideas before getting started. Next each student will write a rough draft. After the rough draft, the students will proofread and edit their work. Then the students will type their story and illustrate the pictures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Tonya Williams.
- The Alphabet Tree
- After reading The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni to students, the students will retell the events on a flow map. Then using Kid Pix software, each child will choose an event, illustrate it, and write a caption for it. The students will then put their events in order in a Kid Pix Slide Show they can present to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- At home in the tropical rainforest
- Students will choose one rainforest animal to research using print and electronic resources. They will work cooperatively with a partner to create a Hyperstudio card with the following information: photograph of the animal, the layer of the rainforest it inhabits, sound the animal makes, and an interesting fact about the animal.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
- By Sally Eller.
- Digging up discoveries
- The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Alyssa Slater.
- Earth Day poems using KidPix
- Students will learn about Earth Day and their responsibility to the earth by creating Earth Day poems using KidPix.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
- By Michele Tipton.
- Fairy tales: Another point of view
- This lesson is on comparing and contrasting (alike and different) two different versions of The Three Little Pigs. Students will use the original fairy tale The Three Little Pigs previously learned in the lesson Fairy Tales and compare it to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This story gives the wolf's point of view.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Theatre Arts Education, and English Language Development)
- By Audra Penrod and Vivian Lages.
- Getting down & dirty with soils
- In this lesson, we will explore different kinds of soil (humus, sand, clay). The students will plant seeds in the different soils as part of further exploration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.
- Habitat happenings (Lesson five)
- This is lesson five in the series. During this lesson students will put the things they have learned from previous lessons into a creative writing assignment. The students will choose an animal to be and will describe themselves and their living environment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Kelly Stewart.
- Healthy foods = super kids
- This lesson focuses on how the foods we eat affect our bodies in both beneficial and harmful ways. Students will learn that grains provide energy; vegetables are needed for healthy skin, hair and eyes; fruits help the body heal, milk builds strong bones and teeth; meat builds muscle and gives strength; and sweets, fats, and oils are high in calories and give few vitamins and minerals and do little to help our bodies grow.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Healthful Living Education, and English Language Development)
- By Phyllis Bass and Rubetta Carr.
- I Spy Nouns
- This lesson will introduce students to nouns. The lesson will begin with a game of "I Spy." This game will help students to understand that nouns are things that can be seen and touched. Then the students will make lists of people, places, and things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Beth Edmonds.
- Leapin' Leprechauns
- This lesson will allow first graders to use their imagination while practicing newly learned writing skills. The end product will be wonderfully creative Leprechaun stories.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By JoAnn Lazaro.
- The Little Yellow Chicken
- The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, Mathematics, and )
- By diane williams.
- Mixing colors with Little Blue and Little Yellow
- This is an integrated lesson based on a French book entitled Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. Within the lesson, students will experiment with various colors to create new colors and eventually write their own version of this story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Science)
- By Lisa Tartaglia.
- Multicultural cross grade level unit plan
- This unit of study integrates reading, writing, math, and social studies. It is designed to help first and third grade students relate to other cultures of the world. They will understand and compare the similarities and differences of children, families, and communities in different times and places. They will analyze religious and other cultural traditions. They will apply basic geographic concepts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Social Studies, Computer Technology Skills, and Mathematics)
- By Shirley Young.
- Oh, the Places I Will Go!
- Students will listen to the story by Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go! The students will brainstorm a list of places they would like to go. Places such as nouns and proper nouns will be separated during the listing process. The students will write a response to: "Oh, the places I will go! I will go____________." and illustrate their responses. Each student response will be collected for a class book entitled "Oh, the Places We Will Go!"
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Karen Mercer.
- Penguin paradise
- Students will demonstrate their understanding of how to communicate statements of information through the composition of a one paragraph summary about a penguin.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Jovonne Shivers.
- Pets
- Students will categorize their family pets and indicate a pet they would like to have. Students will then write sentences about their pets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Kathy Beck.
- Snakes are cool
- This lesson begins with a reading of Verdi by Janell Cannon. It integrates science with language arts as the students learn about snakes and write about their findings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Marcia Reich.
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- This lesson plan focuses on a English Language Arts objectives: similarity and difference. Students compare the story The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Students will work collaboratively in small heterogeneous groups to apply strategies for comprehension and vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Betty Coleman-Canty and Michelle Swain.
- Welcome to My World!: Developing a Personal Narrative Timeline
- Students will create digital, narrative, and drawn versions of a timeline of at least five events of their life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
