Language+Arts

__Grades K - 2__
__Grades K - 2 by Karen Brogan__ This activity is a venn diagram comparing and contrasting the characters from 2 versions of __The Mitten.__

__Grade level: K__ by Karen Brogan This is a follow-up activitiy to the book __Chicka Chicka Boom Boom__. Read the words with the students and drag a name up on the tree. Grade Level K by Pam Nelson: This is a making words activity for Jolly Phonics Sound Book 1. Grade Level K by Pam Nelson: This is a making words activity for Jolly Phonics Sound Book 2. Grade level K by Pam Nelson. This is a center activity or whole class activity to practice Initial Phoneme Recognition. Grade level: 2 by Kimberly Croy. Subject area: Marzano vocab center. Students sort verbs and nouns into a vortex.

Grade level: 2 by Kimberly Croy Subject area: Marzano vocab center. Students sort verbs and adjectives into a vortex. Grade level:1 by LeeAnne Layden Subject Area: Daily Calendar Work including Math, Language Arts and Science

Grade level: 1 by Pam Granberry This activity allows students to reveal the contraction for the given two words.

Grade level: 1 by Pam Granberry Use this organizer to help students complete a structured paragraph.

Grade Level: 2 by Vanessa Chassee. Subject Area: Grammar/Vocabulary. This lesson will help students understand compound words in a fun and interactive way. Grade Level: 2 by Vanessa Chassee. Subject Area: Spelling/Grammar. This activity will help students spell words with the letters c, z and s. Grade Level 2: by Vanessa Chassee. Subject Area: Language Arts. This activity goes directly with Reading Street for 2nd grade bilingual. Students put the site words from all 5 weeks for this unit in ABC order.

Lesson plan for Unit 4 applies to all the units in Reading Street. ABC order - see unit 4 Lesson plan for Unit 4 applies to all the units in Reading Street ABC order - see unit 4 Lesson plan for Unit 4 applies to all units in Reading Street ABC order - see unit 4 Lesson plan for Unit 4 applies to all units in Reading Street ABC order - see unit 4

Title: Story elements using The Lorax;Contributor-Eunice Uhlhorn;Subject Area-Language Arts,Grade Level 1; Date:May 2012 This lesson plan template may be used to cover story elements using the book, The Lorax. It is appropriate to integrate with thematic units under earth science. Grade Level 2 by Rita Jones. Subject Area: Language Arts. Hide-and Reveal Activity with compound words from Reading Street. Grade Level 1 by Violeta Alvarado. Subject Area: Language Arts. Six-Step Marzano vocabulary "Sonido Inicial" Grade Level 1 by Violeta Alvarado. Subject Area: Language Arts. Six-Step Marzano vocabulary "Silaba" Grade Level 1 by Violeta Alvarado. Subject Area: Language Arts. Six-Step Marzano vocabulary "Vocales" Grade Level 1 by Violeta Alvarado. Subject Area: Language Arts. Six-Step Marzano vocabulary "Fabula" NOTE: I could not upload the notebook file because it was larger than 20 MB (code 600), so I divided into 2 parts.

__Grades 3 - 5__
**Grade Level 3-5** This activity is part of the Words Their Way Program (Inflected Endings) **Grade level: 3-5**. This file has basic definitions and examples of the four sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory). **Contributer:** Cari Gresh

**Grade level: 3-5**. This is a basic file that introduces cause-effect. It has a place for kids to practice finding the cause and effect within sentences and practice cause-effect with everyday ideas. **Contributer:** Cari Gresh

**Grade level: 4**. This Notebook file was designed to go with the 4th grade Reading Street story - Unit 4, Week 3. It includes building background, vocabulary words, and the reading strategy of Questioning. **Contributer:** Cari Gresh

**Grade level: 4.**These three files were made to go with the first three stories from the 4th grade Reading Street series. I created them over the summer, but I didn't actually use them because I am teaching thematically and haven't used these stories. The file includes the big question, comprehension skill, vocabulary, vocabulary strategy, word analysis, and amazing words. Since I didn't end up using the files, I don't have a lesson plan for them, but they are very easy to follow and go along exactly with the Reading Street book.
 * Contributer:** Cari Gresh

**Grade Level: 3** A lesson that students can practice identifying if sentences are facts or opinions.
 * [[file:Conference Template.notebook]]Grade Level: All** This file is designed to be a template for student led conferences. My students came up with what they wanted to say about what they were learning and what they need to do better. They presented this information to their parents using the Smartboard during their conference. **Contributor:** Amanda Eakins

**Grade Level: 3-5** This Read Aloud lesson is designed to be used during December to help students combine reading strategies together. Students will be asked to predict, compare/contrast, cause/effect and problem and solution. **Contributor: Kate Baker**
 * [[file:Persuade pg. 93.notebook]][[file:Lesson Plan Persuade.docx]]Grade Level: 4** This lesson goes along with the Avenues series, which is used for Reading. In the teacher's manual, it goes along with T93 in the 2nd Avenues manual. It teaches students to persuade using the real-life of convincing your teacher to let you have extra recess. Extension activities are listed also. **Contributor: Courtney Daily**
 * [[file:Lesson Plan WTW Sort Ar, Are, Air.docx]][[file:R-controlled vowels ar, air, and are.notebook]]Grad****e Level: 4** This is an introduction to ar, are, and air using Words Their Way. It also includes a list of homophones that are included in the word set. Extension activities are listed also. **Contributor: Courtney Daily**
 * Title:** Words Their Way Part IV Sort #20 **Contributor:** Tori Moyski **Subject Area:** LA-Word Work
 * Grade Level 4 Date:** 5/04/2012 **Description** This is a great interative way to use Words Their Way for Part IV Sort #20.


 * Title:** Words Their Way Part IV Sort #21 **Contributor:** Tori Moyski **Grade Level 4 Date:** 5/04/2012 **Description** This is a great interative way to use Words Their Way for Part IV Sort #21.

**Grade Level:** 3 **Contributor:** Jessica Wanzung **Description:** This can be used as an introductory lesson for subject and predicate identification.
 * Title:** Capitalization Practice **Contributor:** Anna Durso **Grade Level:** 3-5th grades **Date:** May 8, 2012 **Description**: Sentence editing practicing capitalizaton grammar rules
 * Title:** Insect Comprehension **Contributor:** Anna Durso **Grade Level:** 3-5th grades **Date:** May 8, 2012 **Description:** This is a lesson that incorporates reading comprehension and science on insects.
 * Title:** Analogies **Contributor:** Gina Grupe **Grade Level:** 3-5th grades **Date:** May 8, 2012 **Description:** This is a tic-tac-toe game that teaches/practices analogies.
 * Title:** ISAT Test Taking Tips and Strategies **Contributor:** Gina Grupe **Grade Level:** 3-5th grades **Date:** May 8, 2012 **Description:** This is meant to be a fun way to destress while reminding the students the best ways to SHOW WHAT THEY KNOW in preparing for the big tests.


 * LEVEL: 3 TITLE: PREFIX REVIEW** **Contributor: Jan Stecyk DESCRIPTION:** This is a review lesson for prefixes re, un, non, dis, and mis. **DATE:** May 23, 2012.


 * Title**: Words Their Ways Sorts 8-19; **Contributor**: Dana Calderwood; **Subject Area**: Language Arts-Words their Way (word work); **Grade Level**: 3rd (can be used with any grade that begins with first part of Words Their Way sorts). **Description:** The pictures and words from Sorts 8-19 can be used to model sorts for students before students work independently.

Grade Level: Any Contributor: Pilar Rocha. This lesson is a basic practice for using the articles el and la. Geared towards Spanish Language Learners

__Grades 6 - 8__

 * Grade Level 6:** These are very simple sorting activities that work with the first unit of the Course I Literature book. (Karen Apostoli) Date: 06/06/2011

**Grade Level 5-6:** Introduction/Review of nouns with student interactive page where they can choose from a chart which nouns are common/proper, singular/plural, etc. so students can see that a noun can have several characteristics. Contributor: **Shari Krause**
 * [[file:Possessive nouns.notebook]]Grade level 5-6:** Introduction/review of possessive nouns, with information that would make for good note taking on the topic. **Contributed by Shari Krause**
 * [[file:Greyling Vocabulary.notebook]]Grade level 6:** This is an introduction to the vocabulary words from the story, "Greyling" in our literature series. Students work in groups to guess the definition of the word based on the given pictures. **Contributor: Christy Johnson**