Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 1, Language Arts Language Expression: Determine an appropriate supporting sentence (COS 18, 21, 24/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: A Fishy Tale Students will predict and then recall details of the story, Big Al. Students will discuss sentences that summarize the story. Students will be divided into small groups to design a page using one of the detail sentences about the story. All the cooperative groups will then contribute their page to make a class book about the story. Friendship Story Web Writing This lesson teaches qualities of a friendship by creating a friendship web and writing a story about a best friend. After listening to the story, Clifford's Pals by Norman Bridwell, students will learn how to make a story web and will create one of their own. This students will enjoy writing and sharing their stories with one another. What's in a Name Using The Legend of Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola as an example, students will choose a name for themselves. Then they will write three sentences explaining why it would be a good name.

Resources: Young Writers Workshop: Next time your child asks you to read a story, tell them you want them to tell you a story. Use one of these Writing Workshop pages to help them get started. Writing Activity Print Outs from Online Books Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students draw pictures to express ideas and generate a topic and supporting details. (E/B, D) Students copy teacher and peer created writings. (D, E) Students use webs and other graphic organizers to generate a topic and supporting details.
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