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Title: Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction using a virtual Moon trip Grades: K-2 Description: This lesson teaches students important vocabulary terms through reading and writing by way of a virtual trip to the moon. The lesson focuses around the book //If You Decide to Go to the Moon// by Faith McNulty taking students on an exciting trip to the Moon. Link to the lesson plan: [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/blast-vocabulary-instruction-using-946.html?tab=1#tabs]

For a lesson plan on learning names in the early childhood classroom, please visit: [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/playing-name-bingo-with-224.html?tab=1#tabs] Title: Playing Name Bingo with //Chrysanthemum// Grades: K-2 Description: This lesson takes a wonderful early childhood story, //Chrysanthemum//, and uses it to encourage students to learn to recognize their own name and the names of their classmates. The lesson, as well as the book, also emphasizes the importance of diversity and respecting others.

For a lesson focused on word recogniton and understanding vocabulary from oral text, please see: [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/vocabulary-with-franklin-helping-1047.html?tab=1#tabs] Title: Vocabulary With Franklin: Helping Students Become Word Wizards Grades: K-2 Description: This is a set of lesson plans designed to help students gather the meaning of new vocabulary words from text that is read-aloud. The lessons use //Franklin in the Dark// by Paulette Bourgeois and include memory games, word matching, read-alouds, and reader's theater.

For a lesson plan focused on exploring, defining, and comparing vocabulary words presented in a science informational text, visit: [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/digging-details-worms-using-917.html?tab=4#tabs] Title: Digging up Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study Grades: K-2 Description: This set of lesson plans presents science vocabulary terms related to animals and habitats. Terms are presented within an informational text read-aloud. Students then work to define words and discuss how terms are related using a graphic organizer. Finally, students research aspects of a worm’s habitat based on the topics presented in the graphic organizer. Students present their findings using ReadWriteThink’s Animal Inquiry online graphic organizer tool. As a culminating activity, the class discusses the requirements for creating a worm habitat and then work together to create a worm habitat.

Title: Immigration Grade: 2nd For a lesson introducing and reinforcing content area vocabulary through a variety of texts online visit: [] Description: This three day plan allows students to gain understanding of the concepts of social studies vocabulary dealing with immigration. The teacher begins by providing background information through stories, personal narratives, and discussion. She then introduces students to the word immigration by writing it on the board and allowing students to share information they know. In the following lessons, the teacher introduces other vocabulary and uses the interactive Ellis Island Tour online, appealing to all modalities of learners. Finally, students are asked probing questions to aid in understanding of vocabulary. Last, the teacher provides a connection to immigration today, by showing students personal stories of young immigrants who have recently moved to United States.