The onset of winter weather varies from year to year and from place to place, but December 21, the winter solstice, is considered the first official day of winter.
Start the presses! Catchy titles, eye-popping graphics, and attractive fonts are all on students agendas in this lesson as they create magazine covers to summarize a topic.
Kim Rogers (enrolled member of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) told us that Just Like Grandma won the 2024 Charlotte Zolotow Award! Here's her screencap:
What happens when a boy named Jack climbs a towering beanstalk into the sky? Hint: It involves a magical harp, a golden goose and an ornery giant named Basil. Go on a wild musical adventure with Jack and the Beanstalk, featuring storytelling by Scott Blankenship, with illustrations by Nancy Carlson and music by Leos Janacek.
Jamila Lyiscott is a “tri-tongued orator;” in her powerful spoken-word essay “Broken English,” she celebrates — and challenges — the three distinct flavors of English she speaks with her friends, in the classroom and with her parents. As she explores the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents, she unpacks what it means to be “articulate.”
Do you like apples? Find out about the real man who loved apples so much that he traveled the country to share the fruit with everyone he met in Johnny Appleseed. It's the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring music from Antonin Dvořák's New World Symphony and original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.
Jorge Fierro was born in Chihuahua, Mexico to a family who valued education and wanted Jorge to become a success: either a lawyer or a doctor. But Jorge soon realized that he would follow his own path. Since he was a boy, he had always admired the philanthropic nature of the people of the United States– generous people who promoted the welfare of others by donating to good causes. Following his heart, and to the disappointment of his father, he leaves Mexico for the USA.
A resource for students to read Julius Caesar with audio recordings, vocabulary, character descriptions, and more!
Like Junie B. Jones, students will be saying "Wait till you hear this" after listening to a Junie B. story and creating mystery boxes to help retell the story.
The National Reading Panel (2000) identified five key critical areas for efective reading instruction. This guide will help you help your child get better at each of the literacy skills so they can become great readers and writers. You have an important role in this process. This guide gives you some ideas for activities to do with your child at home to help them become better readers. The ideas include detailed descriptions for evidence-based activities and supports as well as a template for practice at home. In addition, to lear more about the critical areas of reading instructon, use the QR codes.
This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.
Four friends — a violin, viola, cello and bass — are nervous about meeting their new owners. Will the young musicians learn to play properly and treat their string instruments with care? Find out in KinderLute, from YourClassical Storytime, featuring music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and illustrations by Eusebius Williams.
Family Literacy Videos targeted for families with Kindergarten students. The videos show families engaging their child in evidence-based literacy activities. The video playlist and corresponding document outlining the topics align with IES Practice Guides "A Kindergarten Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills" and "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through Third Grade."
This video shows kindergarten students during an introductory lesson utilizing word sums and matrices. He models adding suffixes including <-s>, <-ed>, and <-ing> to base words from a text.
Why does the king throw every person that cuts his hair into jail? What is he hiding? Find out in The King With Donkey Ears. It's the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, with music by Hamilton Harty and illustrations by Nancy Carlson.
This infographic details six facts about reading based on scientific evidence.
This lesson plan has been created to help students build their annotation skills, close reading skills, and ability to identify and analyze the central idea of a text. This lesson plan also has been created to build digital annotation skills using the Pages application for iPad. The overall outcome of this lesson plan is to show students the benefits of annotating a text using a digital tool and then taking the information from a text and applying it to create a Public Service Announcement that will bring awareness to a real-world issue or historical event that has had a large impact on our society.
This video is a classroom example where Sandra Knudsen from Adams Elementary models general classroom atmosphere and how to effectively give feedback.
This video is a classroom example where Sandra Knudsen from Adams Elementary models general classroom atmosphere and how to effectively use wait time. Students work on spelling the word "they" using letter boards.
This video is a classroom example where Maddie Roos from Adams Elementary teaches advanced phonics, spelling, and word study. She also makes a connection to oral language.