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Learning English can be difficult for non-native speakers, but Education.com has the perfect lesson plan support to help these young kids learn to be comfortable speaking, reading, and writing English. Use Education.com's English learner lesson plans for ways to adapt conversations about academic topics for EL students. Our year one to year six EL lesson plans include suggestions to build academic language through word, sentence, and discourse activities.

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It's Pattern Time

It's Pattern Time

Get those bodies moving and make some patterns. This lesson uses fine and gross motor skills to teach your students about AB patterns.

Kindergarten

Maths

Lesson plan

Bar Graphs: Interpreting Data

Bar Graphs: Interpreting Data

In this lesson, students will make bar graphs and interpret data using real-life data from other students. They will get practise writing and answering survey questions.

Year 3

Maths

Lesson plan

Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Game

Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Game

Help your students make sense of the greater than, less than and equal to in this interactive lesson! Your students will have opportunities to compare either two-digit or three-digit numbers.

Year 2

Maths

Lesson plan

Making Predictions Lesson

Making Predictions Lesson

This lesson thoughtfully scaffolds the reading skill of predicting. Students are introduced to the concept and get to practise making predictions. They will apply what they have learned during a focused independent reading activity.

Year 4

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

By year five, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Solving Word Problems

Solving Word Problems

Word problems getting you down? Then, spread the word on a lesson that will help students decide when to add or subtract, as they identify clue words that aid in solving word problems.

Year 3

Maths

Lesson plan

Division and Multiplication Relationship

Division and Multiplication Relationship

Let's better understand multiplication and division concepts! Use this lesson to help students understand inverse operations between multiplication and division.

Year 4

Maths

Lesson plan

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practise before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

Year 6

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Learning About Cause and Effect!

Learning About Cause and Effect!

Help your students understand what cause and effect looks like in everyday situations! This hands-on, engaging lesson plan allows students to examine cause and effect in their own lives as well as fictional text!

Year 3

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Give first graders a sense of time by introducing them to telling time by the hour. Students who have mastered the numbers 1 to 12 will be eager to keep the class on a time schedule.

Year 2

Maths

Lesson plan

Simple Summaries

Simple Summaries

Keep it simple! Teach your students to write a summary using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then frame for analyzing a story.

Year 4

Lesson plan

Reading Round Up!

Reading Round Up!

Preschoolers can have a range of reading abilities. Find out what they know about letters and reading with this lesson plan!

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Heavier or Lighter?

Heavier or Lighter?

Fill ‘em up! This lesson teaches students to compare how much different containers can hold. Get ready for some overflowing fun!

Year one

Maths

Lesson plan

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Your students are probably used to answering questions. Give them a chance to ask their own with this imaginative lesson on reading comprehension and the ways one can use who, what, when, where, and why.

Year 2

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

Using Context Clues to Understand Word Meanings

This lesson will help your students use sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text. Students will enjoy learning about maps and figuring out tricky words along the way!

Year 3

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Time to Tell Time: Showing and Writing Time

Time to Tell Time: Showing and Writing Time

Becoming fluent in reading analog and digital clocks can be very “time” consuming. This interactive lesson will engage young learners while reinforcing an important skill.

Year 3

Maths

Lesson plan

Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension

Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension

Use this lesson to teach students about the importance of reading fluently to support comprehension. Use as a stand alone activity or a support for the Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension lesson plan.

Year 3

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

2-D Shapes

Shape up your students' understanding of geometrical attributes with this hands-on maths lesson. Students will gain a better understanding of how to describe a shape by the number of edges and vertices it has, rather than by its name.

Year 3

Maths

Lesson plan

Star Unit

Star light, star bright! Teach students all about constellations and earth movement with this engaging science lesson plan. Broken out over several days, this unit encourages students to research and report on a constellation.

Year 6

Science

Lesson plan

Place Value Party

Place Value Party

Now that your first graders are able to count consecutively, introduce them to the tens and ones place values. Using tens and ones blocks will make maths easy and fun for everyone!

Year 2

Maths

Lesson plan

Reading Pictures

Reading Pictures

In this lesson, students will practise "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

Year 2

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Finding the Area of a Rectangle

Finding the Area of a Rectangle

Let your students learn how to find the area of rectangular objects by doing hands-on activities. Your students will love finding the area of various rectangular objects around the classroom!

Year 4

Maths

Lesson plan

Know Your Shapes!

Know Your Shapes!

In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!

Year 2

Maths

Lesson plan

Organise Your Data

Organise Your Data

Collect and graph! In this lesson, your students will practise collecting, organizing, and interpreting data by using real life examples.

Year 4

Maths

Lesson plan

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key year five skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

Year 5

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

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