1st Grade Lesson Plans (page 1)

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Prior Knowledge: The Popcorn Book

Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on The Popcorn Book.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Main Idea: The Great Kapok Tree

Finalize your lessons on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book The Great Kapok Tree with your class.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Main Idea and Supporting Details

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Questioning, Frog and Toad Together

In this lesson, you will teach students how to use Question-Answer Relationships by reading from Frog and Toad Together,…

Subjects

Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Name Tags

Use name tags to help you learn students' names.

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Introducing Questioning, The Mitten

Use a lesson that is designed to introduce primary students to the importance of asking questions before, during, and…

Subjects

Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Story Elements: Danny and the Dinosaur

Use a lesson that introduces primary students to the elements of a story that is read aloud. Students begin by…

Subjects

Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Making Fossils

Make dinosaur bones or fossils with these clever ideas.

Subjects

Science

Geology

Fossils

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Tap Your Feet

Students will practice following a pattern and become familiar with the concept of beat in music. They will be…

Subjects

Reading and Literature

Language Arts and Writing

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Class Garden

Create a class garden with this lesson plan. Your students will observe the growth of the plants after the garden has…

Subjects

Science

Plants and Botany

Plant Life Cycles

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Squiggle Drawing

Students learn about group dynamic by creating a group picture.

Subjects

Visual Arts

Art, Music and Drama

Drawing

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GAMES AND APPS

Mad Libs® Teacher Guides (Gr. 1-6)

Learn how you can use Mad Libs© in your classroom to teach reading and language arts. These activities are a fun way to…

Subjects:

Language Arts and Writing

Writing

Creative Writing

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Plant Eaters and Meat Eaters

In this science lesson plan, elementary students will learn about dinosaurs that were meat eaters versus plant eaters,…

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Animals (Zoology)

Geology

Biology

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How Do You Say Hello?

Children explore an online resource and learn to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.

Subjects

Reading and Literature

Foreign Languages

Culture and Diversity

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Making a Fresco

In this lesson, students learn about frescoes and improvise their own simple fresco paintings on Plaster of Paris. This…

Subjects

Visual Arts

Drawing

Art, Music and Drama

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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: Music and Children's Literature

Use children's literature to help teach music. Explore nursery rhymes with your students and make musical connections to…

Subjects:

Literature

Music Education Strategy

Music National Content Standard 1

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Malala Yousafzai Character Traits Language Arts Mini-Lesson

LESSON PLANS

Character Traits Mini-Lesson: Spotlight on Malala Yousafzai

This ELA-based lesson features a read-aloud of Lina Maslo's "Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala" picture book. The…

Subjects:

Reading and Literature

Language Arts and Writing

Women's Rights

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Predicting: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

Use the prediction strategy while reading aloud the book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry…

Subjects

Reading

Reading and Literature

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REFERENCE

Sunflowers, Van Gogh, and You

Students will taste sunflower seeds, plant sunflowers, research Vincent van Gogh, and paint a picture of a sunflower.

Subjects

Social Studies and History

Community and Ways of Life

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Making Inferences, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Use a lesson that is designed to expand primary students' skill of making inferences. The lesson uses the book, Why…

Subjects

Reading

Reading Comprehension

Caldecott Medal Books & Illustrators

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Ten More and Ten Less

Students will review identifying and writing the number that is one more or one less than a given one or two-digit…

Subjects

Mathematics

Place Value

Numbers and Number Sense

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Journaling with The Sun, Wind, and the Rain

This lesson, to be completed after reading The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain, has students practice their journaling…

Subjects

Journaling Tips, Strategies & Topics

Letters, Journals and Diaries

Writing

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Primary Question-Answer Relationships

Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to primary students. Students should be able to…

Subjects

Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Comparative Subtraction

In this lesson students compare one number with another using manipulatives, write number sentences to show the…

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Mathematics

Addition

Division

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