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Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades PreK-1
- phonics and writing
- Hunting Whales Lesson #4
- Alaskan Unit Lesson #3
- Alaskan Unit Lesson 2
- Christmas Card Nouns and Adjectives
- Alaskan Unit lesson #5
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Listen, Listen for a clue
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades PreK-1
- Map Legend vs. Story Legend
- Alaska Unit
- Drama Class {Halloween night}
- Alphabet Soup
- Match capitals with lower case letters
- Pipe Cleaner Spelling, Spelling
- In this transportation lesson, the class creates a land/air/water pocket chart graph after reading a transportation story
- Here students learn how to generate an idea list as a prewriting strategy
- Here kids record and draw journal observations about the needs of their growing seeds
- A hungry monkey get kids miming and moving in this movement story
- Sinbad the Sailor teaching jumping in this movement story from Saudi Arabia
- "Quality Time" is a big book lesson about "Me and My Dad"
- This lesson integrates Phonics with body language, spoken language, and written language
- Here the bookGo Away Big, Green Monsteris used to introduce adjectives
- And here they write two descriptive sentences about an apple
- All aboard! Click here to travel on the Contraction Train
- A lesson on Comprehension and Inferences that uses a book called "The Snowy Day"
- This lesson turns a poem into a performance piece
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This language arts/music lesson uses instruments to add tone color to literature (features the "og" sound)
- This one is on senses in science and language arts
- These are multidisciplinary election lesson ideas
- Using the "B-I-N-G-O" tune, students learn "A-E-I-O-U" here
- Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
- In this lesson, students learn prepositions while enjoying obstacle course activities
- This is an Ode to Thanksgiving Poem Song which can be expanded as a writing activity
- Here kindergartners make and "read" their Circus Balloon Counting Book
- "On the first day of Christmas, my parents gave to me __" involves spelling, ordinal numbers, and memory practice
- This idea starts out as a bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments
- This reading lesson uses the phonogram method
- Cooperation is necessary to create these sneaky snowmen
- Students (Special Ed) write a creative non-fiction story about animals here while presenting facts and new materials
- A fun Spelling activity called "Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling"
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anythingis used in this sequencing and ordinal number lesson
- A fun lesson plan on Classification using the Lost Button from "Frog and Toad Are Friends"
- ABCs teach students how to learn to read in this lesson
- This lesson is an introduction to Australia's indigenous culture through poetry
- A Special Education idea for Creating Sentences
- After each student creates a self-descriptive bubble map, the class graphs the popular adjectives in this first day of school idea
- Here is a collage lesson in which students create animals
- Nouns and verbs are taught using an interactive SMART Board in this lesson
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- In "Stop Talking," groups edit a paragraph with stop sign periods and red pen capitals
- This collage lesson plan uses rhyming in poetry
- Here students chart adjectives from a "Carousel of Poetry"
- This dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
- A lesson using the "Frog And Toad" series that helps with Emotions
- Students create their own "Chica Chica 123" book here about counting by tens
- In this lesson, students create new shapes with their bodies and even spell words
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- Here students write about photographs
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- A Reading lesson using The Cat in the Hat and the Phonogram method
- This learning to whistle idea teaches the value of fortitude
- This is a lesson on oral sequencing conventions
- In this lesson, students use Kidspiration and learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
- Here is a fantastic multidisciplinary spider unit titled "Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs"
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- In this mini-lesson, students write a sentence about their favorite animal
- This lesson instills confidence as students begin drawing their first stories
- This is one more reading lesson using a story map (circular story)
- "Letter Caterpillar" is an alphabet learning idea
- Another lesson on Comprehension and Recognition of Detail, using "The Very Quiet Cricket"
- This is an idea to teach young students Rhyming Word Families
- This safety lesson uses Kidspiration templates to teach about helpful community members, traffic signals, and how to cross a street
- This is an idea for teaching melting that uses the book "Snowballs"
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- "Change Places" is a robust vocabulary word activity
- This multidisciplinary lesson centers on cookies and the letter "C"
- This is an excellent lesson on national symbols that are unique to our country
- "Fly Swat" is the name of this vocabulary game
- This lesson on insects involves observing a cricket
- Young students learn about "technology" in this lesson and use it to enhance their vocabulary
- In this lesson, students will write about a special memento using the "Self to Text" writing concept
- A Writing and Art activity about "When I Grow Up..."
- Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- Here is another alphabet game
- Here are five days of spelling activities proven effective in Special Ed classes
- These are preschool "bee counting" activities
- After listening to a story about Tyrannosaurus rex, students write sentences about this dinosaur
- Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
- These percussion activities help dyslexic children identify rhythm patterns in written text
- The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
- Students learn computers early with this idea to teach the alphabet
- Here students make a setting mural from theVery Quiet Cricketby Eric Carle
- In this idea, notes are exchanged with mischievous night-visiting leprechauns
- Making this valentine mailbox idea could lead into a letter writing lesson
- Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
- This game will let kids have fun, while unscrambling vocabulary spelling words
- Here students create a web of compliments
- Students match objects and words to aid in reading skills here
- The life cycle of a butterfly is taught here with books, poems, story assignments, and pasta art
- A lesson on Word Identification for Language Arts
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- This lesson is called "Walking Through the Alphabet"
- In this mini-unit, a small-moment idea is developed into a full paragraph narrative
- Students write a letter to their next teacher in this end-of-year activity
- Here's a lesson on Jack Be Nimble and Candles
- This musical idea uses popsicle sticks to create a piece and keep the peace
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- "Teen Family" is a number order role playing idea for recognition of the numbers 10-19
- This is an activity idea for "The Big Potato"
- Instead of "write the spelling words 10 times each", why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
- "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" is the story used in this color/animal vocabulary lesson
- In this lesson students learn where their name comes from
- "Peter and the Wolf" introduces orchestra instruments in this lesson
- This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem
- Here children make a shopping list, fill a crockpot, and learn to pour "Stone Soup"
- This lesson plan is for Pancake Day / Mardi Gras and involves numerous books about pancakes
- In this book-based activity, students cut, fold and shape paper into "The Magic Hat"
- Here is a bingo vocabulary game about people who provide service in a community
- This lesson is on the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, uses Goldilocks
- Click here to read, write, sing, estimate, graph, and eat apples
- Students write about their trip through the solar system here
- Here students retell "The Mitten" by Jan Brett while learning letter sounds and animal names
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- This lesson connects melody, pitch, and rhyming words "Down by the Bay"
- Here students label the parts of an owl's body with descriptor words
- Students create their ownHarold and the Purple Crayonstyle drawing story here
- The book "What Do Fairies Do With All Those Teeth" is used in this lesson
- Here students draw "My Family is...," after reading "My Family is Forever"
- The Syllabary/Analogy Method is used here to decode the pronunciation of polysyllabic words
- Dance your way into learning about Earth Day with the book "Earth Dance"
- Here's a very brief idea for a Vocabulary Game
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- This lesson is on Writing a Story with Storybook Weaver software
- This lesson explores just the sense of touch
- Here students employ inferential thinking while reading "Peter's Chair"
- Use this clever "Vocabulary or Sight Word War" card game to teach the "new words" in any subject
- In this St. Patrick's Day Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey type game, students count and learn directional words while "Filling Our Pot of Gold"
- Make a class puzzle
- With the help of "The Hungry Caterpillar," this "Fruit Unit" also teaches days of the week and graphing
- This Self Esteem Discussion idea uses the book "I Like Me"
- Here's a fun card game used to put words in alphabetical order
- In this Hanukkah idea, children count and identify the color of menorah candles
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- Pre-K and Special Ed students learn to count from 1 to 10 here with the help of a Gummi Bear book and other manipulatives
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- The bookCaps For Saleis used here to explore patterns
- "I'm a Little Cupid" is the centerpiece of this Valentine's Day musical activity
- This 5-minute interval time-telling lesson utilizes "Clocks and More"
- Children define and identify homophones within a poem here
- Here's a memory game for learning upper and lower case letters
- In this idea, students create their own weekly letter identification booklet
- Students use patterns and sequencing to make a necklace in this "Caps for Sale" related lesson
- Here students examine the punctuation of a message left by a leprechaun
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Use this lesson for the letter Hh and its sound
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- Here "The Jolly Postman" teaches students how write a friendly letter to a fairytale character
- This Chinese New Year lesson encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration
- Although not a lesson plan, this High Frequency Word List can be helpful in First grade
- The book "Rosie's Walk" is used here to teach basic spatial awareness vocabulary to speech and language impaired children
- Here is a dramatic play plan for law enforcement activity centers
- Here children play dress-up while learning weather-related clothing vocabulary
- In these two lessons, drama is used to improve language and literacy
- This lesson looks at the U.S. and New Zealand in terms of Location, Transportation, and Apples!
- Here students make postcards to mail to themselves or their teacher over the summer
- This one uses the book "Fang The Dentist" and is about Going to the Dentist
- Here are some small, big, huge and enormous vocabulary activities for "The Enormous Turnip"
- This one is for teaching phonograms by using the bookThe Sneetches
- Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
- This lesson uses language arts to teach creative movement
- Although not a lesson plan, these fun Tongue Twisters can come in handy
- A great lesson for learning the ABCs
- Here's an introduction to computer word processing
- In this well-developed Valentine's Day lesson, kids create Valentine e-cards to send to their parents
- Making Singular Nouns Plural
- This lesson uses the story "Caps For Sale" and is on Patterns and Sequences
- This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- Students retell Jan Brett's "The Mitten" with cutout animal puppets in this delightful reading comprehension lesson
- Spring Into Story Maps
- This is a lesson plan on vowels
- This is a generic book review lesson
- This lesson shows the importance of writing in sequential (first, next, then and last) order
- Kids make shapes and letters with their bodies in this lesson
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- Here as a story character, students write about their "Caribbean Dream" using verbs from the story
- Here's a lesson written to reinforce certain Constant S
- Guess the Shamrock is a spelling game idea
- This well-developed vocabulary memory game is useful in any subject
- This is a color recognition mini-lesson
- A Language Arts Lesson Plan on Nature
- Click here to count to ten and say greetings in German
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- Here students perform "Caps for Sale" after predicting how many caps they can balance
- In this lesson, students "shop" for sentences
- This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
- This Writing idea branches off of how the tree got its leaves
- "The Boo Game" is a great way to review vocabulary words in any subject
- Students share family traditions and culture with their class in this activity
- "Basketball Sentences" focuses on basketball skills and sentence structure
- Using Kidspiration, students drag and drop "Green Eggs and Ham" rhyming words here within a Venn diagram
- Here's a brief Thanksgiving Poem good for ending a Thanksgiving Presentation
- Here students recall details from Galdone's "The Gingerbread Boy" to make and hunt their own
- This sound story for "Danny and the Dinosaur" combines language arts with music
- "Where the Wild Things Are" is a good multidisciplinary place to read, compare/contrast, sort monster types, and learn about islands
- A lesson called Growing and Changing that has connections in Social Studies and Math
- This lesson on anger uses the book "When Sophia Gets Angry
- This one is on Story Maps
- Click here to discover what's inside this W-E-L-C-O-M-E bag idea
- If you really want to engage your first graders, ask them about their dreams
- Here's an idea to make collage snow people as seen in Lois Ehlert's book "Snowballs"
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- Students identify and count shapes and colors used while constructing Geometry Animals here
- This idea uses the bookCarpenter, Carpenter, What Do You Seeas a career exploration tool
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- Students use the strategy of visualization here to better comprehend text
- Called "Book Shopping," this idea helps students learn to make Change from a Dollar
- After readingA Color of His Own, students act out who-what-where-when inslowdance moves in this delightful lesson
- This lesson involves a Writing Prompt - "If Dinosaurs Came Back..."
- This short idea comparesThe True Story of the Three Little Pigsto the original
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- Kindergartners practice alphabetic principles here by writing group stories with Kidspiration
- This lesson idea is on Notices and Signs
- Here's a lesson on quotation marks and their use
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- A Writing lesson that makes use of Story Pyramids
- This is an activity-filled lesson on transportation and common pet sight words
- A Language Arts lesson on the concept of Size and Strangers using Goldilocks
- This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
- Children sculpt clay models of their favorite community members in this lesson
- This speech therapy lesson works on phonemic awareness, vocabulary and articulation skills
- This reading comprehension lesson centers on Veteran's Day and the book "Granddad Bud - A Veterans Day Story"
- Comprehension skills are also practiced here by retelling Rylant's "The Relatives Came"
- Here is an end-of-year music class idea: Sing around the Campfire
- This is a great idea for a beginning and end of school lesson - using a Time Capsule to demonstrate students' learning
- You'll have bilingual fun with the "The Barking Mouse" in this lesson
- This lesson uses the book "Prince Cinders" to teach Predicting and Comprehension
- Here students use their senses to write Thanksgiving cinquain poems
- This idea involves plastic Easter eggs and compound words - need we say more?
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- "Round the Clock" is a unit on time to the half-hour and digital/analog clocks
- This idea combines making snowmen and rhyming
- This lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- Make a Halloween pumpkin face with geometry shapes here
- This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story narrative
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Here students use the internet to track the weather online
- We are Going on a Bear Huntalso explores settings
- A Reading lesson focusing on sight words
- Here a map of the United States is used to locate important areas in Abraham Lincoln's life
- This Frog and Toad lesson is on Identifying Blends
- Make creative writing fun using computer generated coloring pages
- The Importance of Voting is the topic of this lesson using "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs"
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- This is an "EA" sound Kidspiration lesson
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- Elements of a Story Using "Where The Wild Things Are"
- Here insect literature is read
- With this idea students develop "My Book About Me"
- Readers build comprehension skills here by retelling the beginning, middle and end of "Caps For Sale"
- A-Apple, B-Ball, C-Cat; this lesson teaches the alphabet with picture association and word recognition
- This lesson uses flashcards to learn letter recognition and reading
- This is a sweet, sour, or salty lesson on tasteful adjectives
- Sight Words
- This is an idea to "Stamp Out Spelling"
- Initial and Final Sounds With Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop
- This is a letter "B" lesson
- This 5-senses Christmas poem will add phonemic awareness and variety to your Christmas concert
- This excellent lesson celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday
- Children create "A Book of Many Colors" from magazine pages in this idea
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- This Name Rhyming idea is a good way to introduce students to Rhymes
- This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
- This lesson on Quilts uses the book "The Patchwork Quilt" by Valerie Flournoy
- A collection of Big Book Activities, dealing with the book What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
- In this Thanksgiving reading lesson, an emergent reader is made into a predictable chart
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- A similar lesson, using the book "Princess Smartypants" to teach Evaluation and Appreciation
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- Here children will spell sight words after readingJoseph Wants to Read
- This is a great literature-based lesson on feelings
- This is a clothing vocabulary activity for ESL and Pre-K student
- Students studyWhere the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak here and create new monsters
- This English lesson covers Speech, Writing, and Reading
- This lesson explores music and color and our feelings about each
- This one focuses on Comprehension and uses the story Big Bird Dont Cry
- This is an idea for creating a funny "Classroom Do's and Don'ts" book
- Here's a Seasons Book idea
- Here are some ideas for teaching about spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
- A Spelling game idea called Hoopla
- This reading and writing lesson idea on rainforests involves comparing cultures
- Addressing Valentine's Day cards provides great practice in handwriting and name recognition
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- A fun game idea called My Word! - helps to teach Vocabulary
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- Students are missing word detectives in this shared reading lesson
- This brief idea on Rocks uses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and includes a Critique of the book
- In this lesson on Sharing, students will create a journal
- This is just a fun game idea that can go along with Math or Spelling
- This is a transportation themed dramatic play activity centers plan
- Here students research and compose their own version of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech
- This is a lesson on number sense and numeration using literature
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
- This is a beginning Braille letter recognition lesson
- This is a spatial concepts, inferencing and retelling a story lesson for speech/language impaired students
- The story "Caps For Sale" is used in this color words vocabulary lesson
- This is a short phonics and listening skills activity idea
- This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- With the poem "In 1492", you can teach Columbus Day and poetry too!
- This is a lesson on baby farm animals
- "Chicka Chicka Sight Word Match" uses a whiteboard coconut tree and magnetic letters
- Students give the gift of their time in this "Giving Tree" idea
- A lesson on Comprehension using the story Yo Yes
- In "Poppin' Corn," students use descriptive language, inventive spelling and their five senses
- Writing Greeting Card Quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- Here students predict the outcome of a book based on its pictures
- Here's an idea for ABC Freeze Tag that can be used in PE
- Here are 10 brief Early Learning Activity Ideas for 2-3 year olds
- A lesson on Word Patterns and Identification using the book Goodnight Moon
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- Tooth Brushing and Keeping Decay Away are discussed here
- This 5-day friendship lesson integrates character education, language arts, math, music and a craft activity
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- This ELL article promotes proficient, independent and imaginative English writers by explicit teaching methods and four research based strategies
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Here's a good collection of bulletin board ideas
- A Language Arts lesson using Music on beginning, middle, & end
- This is a drama lesson involving farm animal stick puppets
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- As in "A Pocket for Corduroy," students write and post notices to find their lost bear here
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- Here students create and draw onomatopoeia sounds with instruments and "The Listening Walk"
- Children write short sentences here to create an autumn vocabulary booklet
- This brief idea involves students making Alphabet Books
- Here are two fun activities that integrate locomotor movements with reading, and listening skills
- Here students learn to say and make lower case letters
- Here students decorate a special Valentine and tuck a teabag, candy, or chore coupon inside
- In this "All About Butterflies" Kidspiration lesson, students make colorful models and create a life cycle chart
- Learners use graphic organizers here to find "The Main Idea"
- The topic here is circular stories and sequencing
- This lesson on Translation of Ideas and Outlining uses the book "Paper Bag Princess"
- Here students share their special "gifts" after reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- "Label Tables" is the name of this interesting Vocabulary Building Activity
- A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
- A lesson on Onset Rime using Hop On Pop
- In this alphabet writing activity, students discover "letters" in a bottle
- Here students draw maps of their rooms using the bookMapping Penny's Worldas a model
- Here's a fun collection of Mother's Day activity ideas (which may be adapted for Father's Day)
- "Literature and Patterns" is a reading - writing - drawing lesson about Easter Eggs
- Kids make a paper chain of short 'a' words here
- A "Special Me" class book is created here with Kid Pix self-portraits and written personal summaries
- In this "Supermarket Math" lesson, students complete and interpret a KWL chart and food pictograph
- 26 letters are found in this Dinosaur Egg hunt, but not in alphabetical order
- "W is for Worm" is the title of this cinquain poem lesson
- Fill in the blank with Shel Silverstein
- Daycare Game
- Literature theme collages (Imagery)
