Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.
Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
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Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
C is for Culture in this lesson in which students research a culture different from their own and compile an alphabet book that showcases cultural symbols for each letter of the alphabet.
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To, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
The classroom becomes a stage in this interactive lesson in which students sing, act, and design comic strips to learn the meanings and spellings of common homophones.
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Let's Build a Snowman
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
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Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
2 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
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Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
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Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Gentle, gigantic, gracefuldo these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.