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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (2), or English Language Arts (K)
Title: Getting to Know Characters: Lilly and Other Kevin Henkes Friends
Description: In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing characters. In the final project students create a character of their own. This lesson format follows the Sheltered English Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP).
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
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: From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
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Description: Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
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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.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Persuasive Writing: What Can Writing in Family Message Journals Do for Students?
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Description: This lesson engages children in using writing to their families as a persuasive tool to get what they want and need.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
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Description: Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
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