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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Using Repetition and Picture Cues to Foster Independent Young Readers
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Description: Kindergartners share their knowledge of letters and sounds in a large group setting, giving teachers an assessment opportunity. Each student contributes a page to make a repetitive classroom book.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Let's Build a Snowman
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Description: 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.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Fairy Tales Around the World
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Description: In this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students become familiar with fairy tales. They read and learn to understand fairy tales so that they can better comprehend the structures of literature, as well as for the sake of the wonder, pleasure, and human understanding these stories can provide in their own right.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: ' Stellaluna'' author Janell Cannon was born in 1957.
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Description: After reading '' Stellaluna'' , students discuss themes in the story and do a unit on bats or a creative writing activity based on the book.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Creative Problem-Solving with Ezra Jack Keats
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Description: Using books by Ezra Jack Keats as inspiration, students explore problems and solutions through read-alouds, discussion, and an interactive bulletin board.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: From Little House to My House: Exploring History and Family Roles
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Description: Blaze a trail to new perspectives on home and family through historical fiction read-alouds. Students compare an episode from one of the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in picture book format) with the author's life and with their own experiences.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Collaborative Stories 2: Revising
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Description: Using a collaborative story written by students, the teacher leads a shared-revising activity to help students consider content when revising, with students participating in the marking of text revisions.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with '' Little Red Riding Hood Text'' Sets
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Description: Students discuss and compare differing versions of '' Little Red Riding Hood'' and other tales about wolves in cumulative read-aloud sessions and text set explorations.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
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Description: Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Find favorite book picks in the Children's Choices.
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Description: Students create lists of their favorite books and then the class creates a '' Top Picks'' class booklist. Students can use the Book Cover Creator to create a book jacket for their favorite book.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6
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