Explore stories about lost animals such as: Lost Puppy, Found Puppy by Roxanne Williams or Arthur’s Lost Puppy By Marc Brown.
Brainstorm an animal that has been lost. Use the template to write information about the lost animal. Additional details could be added.
Students will construct and confirm meaning through pictures and words.
Students will identify and categorize high frequency words by sight.
Students will listen to a reading of the Three Little Pigs and use the template to demonstrate their recall of the events of the story.
Students will create their own narrative about a Leprechaun. Ideal for March.
Students will use the provided template to create new rhymes and patterns on a known nursery rhyme.
Complete the rhyme in Brown Bear, Brown Bear, with new animals .
Students will write a short narrative about their day.
Read a version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to the class. Students reorder the slides to put the story in order then write sentences on each slide to retell the story.
Read Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, by Ruth Heller and find similarities with other animals.
Use this simple template to write and sequence instructions such as how to make a sandwich, how to build a snowman. Students type on the left and after the page is printed, they can draw a picture on the right.
Use this simple chart to compare any two stories such as Monsterella and Cinderella, The Ninjabreadman and The Gingerbread man.
Students will use either template to experiment with letters and words to learn new vocabulary
Students will use their sight words to create sentences about a character.
Students will use the Google Slides template to create a visual dictionary of spelling words.
Students will photos of themselves to a template to help communicate meaning.
Monster Writing - This is a series of 5 lessons featuring various types of writing for Grades 1 and 2 on the topic of monsters.
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