Language Arts - Elementary Lesson Plans

English Language Arts Kindergarten (2023)

• Adaptation of The Boy Who Cried "Wolf"
• American Symbols Unit
• CVC Words
• Camp Paws and Claws & Farm Animals
• Character Education Read Alouds
• Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences
• Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
• Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research
• Design an "All About Me" Poster
• Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
• Digraph ch
• Fairy Tale Maps
• Identifying Characters in Kindergarten
• K - Act. 13: Forming Relationships Using Music & Rhythm
• Kindergarten Animal Writing Lesson Plan
• Kindergarten Favorite Food Opinion Writing
• Kindergarten Lesson Ideas: Code & Go Mouse
• Kindergarten Qobo Robot: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Kindergarten Writing Lesson #2 / Descriptive Prompt
• Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
• Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
• Poetry Suitcase
• Retelling Folktales Through Short Films
• Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo
• Sounding Out Activities
• Spelling With Algorithms
• Spelling: Y as a Vowel and a Consonant
• The Cinderella Projects
• Unplugged: Networks and Writing
• Unplugged: Step-by-Step Story Writing

English Language Arts Grade 1 (2023)

• 1st Grade - Act. 08: Then and Now
• 1st Grade Lesson Ideas: Code & Go Mouse
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
• Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
• CVC Words
• Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
• Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
• Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research
• Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
• Digital Story Comprehension and Retelling
• Digraph ch
• Hello Ruby - Expedition to the Internet Unplugged
• LETRS Application of Concepts: General Classroom Atmosphere and Feedback
• LETRS Application of Concepts: Teaching Beginning Decoding and Spelling 7e
• Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
• Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
• Poetry Suitcase
• Retelling Folktales Through Short Films
• Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo
• Segment Sounds and Review Words with Long "O" and Long "I"
• Sounding Out Activities
• Spelling: Y as a Vowel and a Consonant
• Teaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
• Text Talk: Julius, the Baby of the World
• The Cinderella Projects
• Unplugged: My Favorite Things

English Language Arts Grade 2 (2023)

• 2nd Grade Lesson Ideas: Code & Go Mouse
• A Cinderella Story (Grade 2)
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
• Arty Smarty: Exploring Various Mediums in Picture Books
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
• Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
• Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research
• Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
• Digital Story Comprehension and Retelling
• Hello Ruby: Events - Unplugged
• Hello Ruby: Loops - Unplugged
• LETRS Application of Concepts: Teaching advanced phonics, spelling, and word study 5. Connection to oral language. 6. Uses Routines, cue cards, strategies, and signals. And 7c. reads words in isolation, applying blending techniques as appropriate
• Learn New Vocabulary with Flash Cards
• Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
• Name Tag Glyphs
• Ozobots and Opinions
• Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
• Reading Fluency, Expression, and Sound Effects
• Segment Sounds and Review Words with Long "O" and Long "I"
• Sounding Out Activities
• Spelling: Y as a Vowel and a Consonant
• The Cinderella Projects

English Language Arts Grade 3 (2023)

• 3rd Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobot
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Characters and how their actions contributed to the sequence of events.
• Class Pet Persuasive Essay
• Communities and Their Environment
• Create a Book (Grade 3-6)
• Discussing Copyright
• Dog Vs. Cat Lesson-Supporting Opinions with Picture Evidence
• How Badger, Skunk and Sage Hen Were Marked
• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
• Informative Writing Lesson Plan
• Map Your Way to School With Ozobots
• Map Your Way to School With Ozobots
• Name Tag Glyphs
• Nouns - singular, plural and possessive
• Ozobot Opinion Writing
• Ozobots and Story Sequencing
• Planet Research Project
• Reading Fluency, Expression, and Sound Effects
• Show Not Tell: Describing Setting Using the Five Senses
• Show Not Tell: Similes
• Story Pirates: Suspense
• Teaching Fluency Using Readers Theatre
• Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Descriptive Prompt
• Third Grade Writing Lesson #2 / Science Prompt
• Unplugged Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer (Ch. 5 - Hardware of a Computer)
• Unplugged: Sequencing and Storytelling with Emojis
• Winter

English Language Arts Grade 4 (2023)

• "As Classy as a Camera" (Learning about Similes with Photography)
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• 4th Grade Lesson Ideas: Ozobots
• Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
• An Educator’s Guide to Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
• Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Bear and Deer Lesson Plan
• Blue Bots and Greek/Latin Roots
• Brainstorm a Myth
• Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
• Character Mapping
• Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding of the Story
• Cinderella Stories From Around the World
• Color Poems - Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
• Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
• Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
• Composing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
• Cottontail Shoots the Sun
• Coyote Loses His Eyes Lesson Plan
• Coyote and Duck: A Paiute Tale
• Coyote and Frog Race Lesson Plan
• Coyote and Mouse Make Snow Lesson Plan
• Coyote and the Rolling Stone Lesson Plan
• Coyote and the Rolling Stone: Language Arts and Dance Lesson Plan
• Create a Book (Grade 3-6)
• Creating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
• Creating Family Timelines: Graphing Family Memories and Significant Events
• Creating Poetry Using a Traditional Shoshone Tale
• Creating a Classroom Newspaper
• Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
• Deforestation: Paragraph Writing
• Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms
• Developing Inferential Comprehension Through DL-TA and Discussion Webs
• Digital Story: In My Opinion... (Lesson 1)
• Digital Storytelling 4th Grade
• Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
• Exploring Personal Pronouns with Blue Bots
• Hardware and Software Analogies
• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
• It's Greek to Me!
• Name Tag Glyphs
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American Poet
• Reading Fluency, Expression, and Sound Effects
• Short Writing Research Project
• Show Not Tell: Describing Setting Using the Five Senses
• Show Not Tell: Similes
• Story Pirates: Suspense
• Super Flip
• Tableaux Using "Coyote and the Rock"
• Unplugged: Rubber Band Research

English Language Arts Grade 5 (2023)

• "As Classy as a Camera" (Learning about Similes with Photography)
• 5th Grade Lesson Ideas: Dash Robots
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Blue Bot Debugging with Grace Hopper
• Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan - Unplugged
• Create a Book (Grade 3-6)
• Design an Animal
• Figurative Language with Spheros
• How Beaver Lost the Fur on His Tail
• I Used My Own Words! Paraphrasing Informational Texts
• Informative Writing
• It's Greek to Me!
• KEVA Building Challenge
• Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
• Name Tag Glyphs
• Poetry Nearpod
• Poetry Nearpod
• Reading Fluency, Expression, and Sound Effects
• Show Not Tell: Describing Setting Using the Five Senses
• Show Not Tell: Similes
• Sphero Editing
• Story Pirates: Suspense
• Storytelling Adventure
• The U.S. House of Representatives and the Gag Rule
• Unplugged Algorithm Location Challenge
• e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts