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This lesson integrates English Language Arts and Social Studies using the award winning text, Going Down Home with Daddy. Students will develop an understanding of this literary text by analyzing the...
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Standard ELA.AOR.1
ELA.AOR.1 - Evaluate and critique key literary elements that enhance and deepen meaning within and across texts.
Grade(s): 2
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Year: 2023
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- Kindergarten
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Read aloud the book Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase (book can be found on YouTube) Have students work in groups to determine types of figurative language found in the book and how they shape...
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Grades
- 1
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- 5
By reading picture book biographies, students will become familiar with the challenges that early African-Americans faced, but also how they triumphed in spite of these challenges. Also, other stories...
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- Kindergarten
- 1
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The students will learn facts on Martin Luther King Jr. and his life.
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- Kindergarten
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Christy Nexsen (Manning Primary School) leads a lesson on friendship, and analyzing characters, settings, and events.
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- Pre K
- Kindergarten
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Written by: John Steptoe Read by: Yolanda Anderson, Commissioner with Richland One School District Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro, who is proud of his two...
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- Kindergarten
- 1
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What can I do at the end of this lesson? *I can make connections to text through reading and writing to make strong interdependent relationships. (Friends/Relationship)
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- Kindergarten
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The Day You Begin By Jacqueline Woodson Illustrated By Rafael López Read by Bre Wilson There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel...
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- Kindergarten
- 1
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The Best Class Picture Ever! Written and Illustrated By: Denis Roche Read By: Martha Hearn and Kathleen Pennyway It's class picture day, and Class 202 is in an uproar. There's chaos everywhere. And...
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- Pre K
- Kindergarten
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Good Night South Carolina By: Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper Illustrator: Cooper Kelley Read by: Richard Cohn, ETV Commission Chairman At-Large Good Night South Carolina explores Hilton Head, Charleston...
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- Kindergarten
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SPECIAL INTERVIEW INCLUDED AFTER STORY Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast Written and Illustrated By: Sophie Gilmore Read By: Marcus Lattimore Crocodiles come from far and wide to seek Little Doctor...
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Grades
- Kindergarten
- 1
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Students will have the opportunity to read three different versions of the story Cinderella. Over the course of a week, students will compare and contrast the three stories.
Lesson
Grades
- 2
The students will review ou/ow word blends and identify cause and effect relationships in 'Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia.'
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Grades
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Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of Mexican migrant farmers, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in Southern California. As a child, he attended school in a variety of small towns from San Francisco to San...
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Grades
- 1
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Students will learn about similes by finding them in popular culture.
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Grades
- 1
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The students will be able to understand perspective by identifying multiple characters’ feelings, thoughts, emotions, and actions.
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- Pre K
- Kindergarten
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Students will explore the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series and watch sequences of events unfold naturally. They will use this style of writing to create their own class book that models the If You...
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- Kindergarten
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Native Islanders share their folklore and history through storytelling and singing. Gullah storytellers often perform folktales that feature animals as the main characters. Much like tales heard in...
Interactive
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- Kindergarten
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Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in Gullah. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).
Interactive
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- Kindergarten
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Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in English. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).