Students choose a new letter to work on and write upper and lower case letter on a piece of paper. In this art lesson, students look through old magazines to find pictures that begin with that letter, cut them out and glue them on the...

Students practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue twister...

Young scholars demonstrate literal meaning of a fiction book. In this reading comprehension activity, students listen to the book, If You Give a Mouse a Muffin and practice the "m" sound during the read aloud. Young scholars answer...

Students practice basic reading skills. In this reading lesson plan, students review the letter M, read the story If You Give a Mouse a Muffin. Students will then write a book using their name, for example: If You Give a Taco to Tracy.

Learners, after reading and discussing the book, "The Night Before Christmas," explore, examine, and study about the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. They primarily assess the letter 'D' by inquiring which animals guided...

Students recognize the phoneme /k/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /k/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /k/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme...

Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...

In this handwriting activity, students practice tracing and writing uppercase and lowercase letter R six times a piece on the lines provided.

Learners explore letter-sound correspondences. They explore the letter s and the sound produced by the letter. Students explore how to write both the upper and lower case forms of the letter s. Learners identify s in both written and...

In this cursive practice activity, students practice writing the lower case letter j multiple times on lines provided. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.

First graders the /i/ sound by practicing the way the mouth moves while making the sound while saying "icky, sticky." They write the letter "i" using both upper and lower case letters, make words using letterboxes, and write about a...

Learners recognize the capital letters of the alphabet.

In this handwriting worksheet, students trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own and practice writing the word 'car'.

In this handwriting worksheet, students trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own and practice writing the word 'cabinet'.

In this handwriting worksheet, students trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own, and practice writing the word 'cake'.

First graders engage in a writing activity about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues. This would be a very exciting, and meaningful lesson plan for a first grade writer!

Learners write about themselves. In this descriptive writing lesson, students view a PowerPoint for examples of descriptive writing and then write sentences describing themselves. Learners use a computer program to type their sentences...

First graders physically form the letters of the alphabet in small groups. They move around demonstrating various locomotive skills, and form the letter that the teacher calls out.

Students recognize the /b/ sound in written and spoken words in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the /b/ sound. They then listen to the story "ABC" by Dr. Suess (specifically the B page) and...

Students study the /i/ sound in both written and spoken words. They examine how their mouths move as they make the /i/ sound, recite a tongue twister, and write the both the upper and lower case 'i'. Next, they listen to a story while...

In this literacy activity, learners look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections and help with spelling.

For this D is For Duck worksheet, students trace and write 8 uppercase D's and 8 lowercase d's. The worksheet also includes a cartoon picture of a duck.

In this handwriting practice worksheet, students practice writing letters capital and lowercase letters first by tracing and then on their own. Each page is for a different letter and gives the correct formation of each letter.

Students identify and interpret the concept of the vowel /a/ and recognize it in words and illustrations. They also practice writing both upper and lower case A on writing paper. Finally, students name pictures and circle the pictures...