Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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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.

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.

How Much is that Doggy in the Window?: Using internet sources, students will explore information associated with owning a dog. Students will access a controlled collection of websites regarding owning a dog within the scavenger hunt.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Computer Technology Skills, and Science); By Kathy Beck.

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.

Phonics Fun: Kid Pix Deluxe software is needed for this lesson. Using this program, students will decode and blend one syllable short vowel words and words ending with silent "e" to match pictures with words as well as spell names of pictures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Jo Voigt.

Seasons change: This lesson introduces students to the characteristics of the changing seasons and allows students to see how plants, animals, and people adapt to the changes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Science); By Beth Herron.

Word Family Web: Students play a fun game with spider and fly to build new words using known word families.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts); By Peggy Johnson.

Bingo! Using environmental print to practice reading: Emerging readers practice their reading skills using a variety of environmental print materials. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Dr. Seuss's sound words: Playing with phonics and spelling: By focusing on sound words in Dr. Seuss stories, students develop spelling strategies that help them move from phonemes, the sounds they make, to graphemes, the written representations of those sounds. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

From stop signs to the golden arches: Environmental print: Students will help collect examples of environmental print, sort and classify these examples for inclusion in class books, and spend time reading the books as individuals, in pairs, or in groups. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Get Writing with "Weekend News!": Students write about their weekends, using skills they have learned in writing workshop. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy: Students learn shape names, locate shapes in their environment, practice spelling out the names of items and shapes they locate, and reflect, in writing, on the process. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Growing readers and writers with help from Mother Goose: Children connect characters with letters of the alphabet, letting them serve as hooks to help children remember the letters and their sounds and use that knowledge in their writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Shared poetry reading: Teaching print concepts, rhyme, and vocabulary: This lesson teaches the acquisition of vocabulary, one-to-one matching, left-to-right directionality, and awareness of rhyme. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Word recognition strategies using nursery rhymes: This lesson uses familiar nursery rhymes to draw attention to words that end with the same letters. Kindergarten and first-grade students are encouraged to create word family lists and compare them to words in different word families. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Writing poetry with rebus and rhyme: This lesson uses teaches rebus writing, which substitutes images for words in the text. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE