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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
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 Title: Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-Alouds
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Description: Students learn about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies by participating in an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate. Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink Grade Span: K,1

Subject: Language Arts Title: Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
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Description: Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction. Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink Grade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language Arts Title: Learning About Word Families with Click, Clack, Moo
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Description: Using text from Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as shared readings, first-grade students learn word families and how to decode new words in a word family. 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: Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
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Description: Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments. Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink Grade Span: K,1,2

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