Shapes, Colors & Counting! Oh My! This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students with colors, shapes, numbers, sorting, and counting.
SPECIAL NOTE TO TEACHERS: The original brand Skittles should be used for appropriate color matching in the lesson plan.
Characters, Settings, & Events This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students with prompting and support visuals to identify characters, settings, and major events in The Gingerbread Train - Santa's Secret Gift story.
SPECIAL NOTE TO TEACHERS: For Oral Language development, students can act out the book.
New Words & Meanings This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students understand pronunciation and meaning of new words. You will ask about unknown words in the text of the Do You Life Trains? story.
SPECIAL NOTE TO TEACHERS: This lesson was inspired by Ann Tarpley Francesco's latest book, Do You Like Trains? Students will enjoy learning and coloring the different types of train cars!
First Grade
Key Ideas & Details This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students, with prompting and support, to ask and answer questions about key details in a text .
Key Ideas & Details This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students, with prompting and support, to ask and answer questions about key details in a text from the story Do You Like Trains?.
The 5 W's This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help students answer such questions as who, what, where, when, and why to demonstrate an understanding of key details in a text.
Rhyming Words This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help students describe how words or phrases (e.g. regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem or song.
Compare & Contrast - The Gingerbread Train This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students compare and contrast the elements, themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author.
Compare & Contrast - Do You Like Trains? This lesson plan will help your students compare and contrast the differences and similaries between squirrels and raccoons in nature, as well as in the story from Do You Like Trains?
Writing Structure This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to introduce students to a topic or text, clearly state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Vocabulary & Word Meanings This lesson plan includes CCS learning objectives to help your students learn new vocabulary words and their meanings, based on how they are used in text and phrases.
