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Lesson plan

A plan for helping students learn a particular set of skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Often includes student activities as well as teaching ideas, instructional materials, and other resources. Is shorter (in duration) than, and often part of, a unit of instruction. Goals and outcomes are focused.

• A Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy
  If "an apple a day will keep the doctor away", then perhaps a-rhyme-a-week will keep school failure at bay. WIL's A-Rhyme-a-Week phonological awareness program features 28 different nursery rhymes.
• Areas of Study with Writing Project
  For this final class project, a student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master�s Cohort developed a lesson plan to assist students in writing a �well-developed, short essay on a content area.� The teacher has included a series of photographs including reading materials and motivators, vocabulary chart, fact chart, and a final draft.
• Awesome Authors
  The selected DVL lesson is taught by Karyl O'Banion, a 3rd grade teacher from Dolby Elementary School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The lesson is entitled Awesome Authors and demonstrates students learning how to participate in an online discussion, how to videotape live interviews, and how to conduct Internet searches to research an author.
• Character Draws
  For this final class project, students in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master�s Cohort developed a lesson plan to assist students in writing about character traits. The lesson plan includes step-by-step instructions and samples of student writing based on this activity.
• Flower Power-Question and Answer Relationships
  For this final class project, as student in the Nevada Reading Excellence Act Master�s Cohort created a user friendly QAR (Question-Answer Relationships) format to teach students how to answer different types of questions and at the same time build their comprehension.
• Linda�s Links to Literature
  This website has 15,500+ links to activities and lesson plans for children's and young adult literature. Links are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
• Literature Learning Ladders
  This website is great.It has collabrative and interactive projects and literature-based webquest grade by grade.
• Thematic Hawaiian Islands
  This website contains an overview and descriptions of five lesson plans used in second grade: (1) The Hawaiian Islands; (2) Map Skills; (3) Learning about fish that live in the ocean off Hawaii; (4) Rewrite a Hawaiian folk tale; and (5) Compare homes in Olivehurst to Punia�s home in Hawaii. A performance based unit assessment is included.
• Where Children Love to Learn and Learn to Grow
  This site is created for helping teachers and parents. There are lessons plans and units, presented by grade level.