Goal: Students will understand the concept of rhyming words and how they have endings that sound the same.

Goal: Students will learn how to segment and blend short vowel CVC words using phonological skills.

Goal: To utilize kinesthetic learning tools to teach students vocabulary prior to reading a story to improve recall and comprehension.

Goal: To teach students about how to plan and create a design to make something that is useful in the world. Teamwork and utilizing the scientific process to plan a project.

Goal: To teach students about how things grow and change using plants to show how they go through a cycle of life. From the seed stage to the actual plant students will see how life is created in the plant world.

To create several speech bubbles utilizing the voice of the Pigeon or the Bus Driver to understand the voice of different characters in a narrative story. The second step is to transfer their learned skill to give voice to inanimate objects. This lesson lends itself to students using language and semantic cues to understand differences in voice when reading a story.

Students will understand the importance of using good sentence fluency to express an idea clearly and to be able to create sentences that are descriptive and organized so that they sound good.

Grade 1-4 Activity #2: Word Choice Lesson Book: When Sophie Gets Angry Goal: Students will understand the importance of using language to express an idea clearly and to be able to replace a basic word with a better choice that is even more descriptive.

Teaching Writing Organization Skills Book: Tacky The Penguin Goal: To create a fictional story using characters, setting, problem, and solution following a standard story pattern using beginning, middle, and end.