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Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Guess What's in the Bag: A Language-based Activity
Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
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.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
To, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
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.
Let's Build a Snowman
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Let's Build a Snowman
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.
Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
Grades
2 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
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.
Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter <em>G</em>
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do 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.

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