US Mint
Desert Dwellers
What can a quarter possibly teach young learners about desert ecosystems? More than you might think. After displaying and discussing the included picture of the Arizona state quarter, the class participates in a series of...
Critical Thinking Cooperative
Doing Our Share
Whether at home or in the classroom, each member of a community has certain responsibilities they must tend to. With the help of the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne, kids learn how to assign jobs in a fair and safe...
Curated OER
Vocabulary Practice-Grade One
In this grade one vocabulary worksheet, students use a word box to fill in blanks and correctly complete 5 sentences. Page has links to answers and additional activities.
Read Works
Readworks: Read Aloud Lesson: Stellaluna
Compare Stellaluna's experience of living like a bird with her experience of living like a bat. Included in this lesson are a detailed lesson plan, a graphic organizer, and a student worksheet.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Giraffes and Zebras Oh My!
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Additionally, students will also be able to identify, compare, and contrast characteristics between two...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: All About Emotions: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn to label emotions and how they can express them in different ways.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Listen and Read: Pediatrician
Listen and read along as a pediatrician describes how she takes care of children in this interactive book for early learners.
Quia
Quia: Making Toast
This activity helps students improve their understanding of sequencing by putting seven actions in sequential order.
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This is an online story for early readers about things that can go into motion, and things that can't. It offers help for readers as they can click on a words and it will say the word aloud. It also provides a list of words used in the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plans: Using Personal Connections to Understand Emotions
A lesson plan in which younger learners draw on prior experiences that made them happy or sad, build two-sided masks, work with Venn diagrams, and connect personally with the emotions conveyed by poems in The Way I Feel by Janan Cain...