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1. Writing Complete Sentences - Language Arts - First Grade
Vision View the standards Return _ Unit/Lesson Plan _ Writing Complete Sentences - Language Arts - First Grade Description The class will listen to the book "Elephants" by Jenny Markert. The class will recall and restate facts about Asian and African elephants included in the book. The information will be recorded on chart paper by the teacher in the form of short phrases. The students will then use the information about elephants to write five complete sentences....

2. Elephant Artist
...rs individually. Materials: Ranger Rick magazine, November 2001 issue, pencil, paper, chalk, board, worksheet with Venn Diagram. Procedures: 1. Tell student to pull out their Ranger Rick magazine, and turn to page 23. Have the class read the article, Talented Trunks silently. Tell the students that elephants are artist and to read the article to see how. Also tell students to look up when they finish reading the article. 2. After entire class finishes reading, discuss the article by drawing a semantic map on the board that presents the elephants mentioned, and the type of art and music they performed. 3...

3. Ellen's Elephants
Ellen?s Elephants Beginning Reading Kristen Britton Rationale: It is very important that beginning readers understand that words are made up of individual sounds, phonemes, that are put together, and that these sounds are put into print by letters, graphemes. This lesson will help students understand that the letter...

4. Dugongs and Elephants - Cousins?
Lesson Plans Standard Number:9 Grade level: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Xpedition Select Lesson Plan: Hall Check out: X1: Globe Dugongs and Elephants Cousins? Projector Overview: Dugongs are large mammals that look like a cross between seals Standards and walruses but are actually more closely related to elephants. They live in the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean, the Indonesian archipelago, and the southwestern Pacific around the - Standard 1:...

5. Caring for Orphan Elephants Is a Big Job!
+ + -+ CARING FOR ORPHAN ELEPHANTS IS A BIG JOB! MASTER TEACHER Helen Mebane GRADES 6-8 OVERVIEW Students will be introduced to all the survival skills which orphaned baby elephants must be taught in order to be released safely in to the wild. After viewing the video and completing the two activities, students will learn how intellig...

6. Elephants and Eggs
eggs and elephants Elephants and Eggs Elizabeth Stevens Rationale: Children at the beginning reading stage should learn their long and short vowel sounds. The first thing that most teachers teach students when they are learning to read is vowels. The short vowels are usually the first to be taught. Most teachers start...

7. “Eehh?” is for Eleven Elephants
?Eehh?? is for Eleven Elephants Emergent Literacy Nicole Huff Rationale: The goal of letter-sound instruction is to help students to acquire the relations between printed letters and speech sounds. In order for children to attain the goal of letter-sound instruction to learn to read and write successfully they must have phoneme aw...

8. Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs
Christy Cooley Emergent Literacy Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs (short e lesson) Rationale: To learn to read, spell, and decode words correctly, children need to know that the spelling maps out the phonemes in spoken words. This lesson will help children map out the phonemes in words with the short e correspondence. They will learn to recognize...

9. Fred’s Red Elephants
Fred?s Red Elephants By: Megan Lowery Rationale Children need to have a thorough understanding of phonemes in order to become skilled readers. One thing they need to learn is short vowels. This lesson is focused on e=/e/ by using different materials and introducing words that have /e/ sounds. Materials pencil paper post...

10. Become a "Summarizer"
...t Koala Rescue? by Ruth Musgrave http:// www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0503/ Highlighters for each child Poster with three summarization techniques (Pick out main ideas/information, delete trivial information, relate the main and supporting information) Article for each child ?Cool Things about Elephants? by Aline Alexander Newman http:// www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0606/ Fish graphic organizer on main ideas http://content.scholastic.com/content/ collateral_resources/pdf/l/lessonplans_graphicorg_pdfs_mainidea.pdf Procedure: 1. First the teacher should introduce the topic of summarization to th...