Learning Experiences
The following foundational learning experiences would be appropriate for many inclusive classrooms. Some additional information is included in the full record of each lesson or activity to spark your creativity and help you integrate these resources into your particular teaching situation. To further assist you, additional ideas and options are listed on the Consider Planning Options pages. These options are not meant to be rigid and prescriptive, but are intended to open the doors to possibilities.
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This excellent lesson plan features patterning activities based on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, a book with repetitions of sounds and pictures. By reading and acting out the book's story, children learn about word patterns in literature.
Topics: Mathematics — Algebra, Patterns and Sequences
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children enjoy a variety of activities that give them experience in recognizing, describing, and extending repeating and numerical patterns. After some group activities, the children work at activity centers to further investigate patterns.
Topics: Mathematics — Algebra, Patterns and Sequences
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This instructional unit provides many opportunities for children to read, write, recite, and listen to poems. Children identify the figurative language, rhyme, and repetition used in poems and begin to understand the elements of verse.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Children's Literature, Poetry, Communication, Songs and Poems
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this Pre-K activity children name things or animals that fly, discuss how they move, and categorize them into groups such as size, speed, living thing or machine. The activity is related to Double Tibble Trouble from the Arthur PBS TV series.
Topics: Science — Physical Science, Forces and Motion
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this 9-lesson unit, children explore the four models of addition (counting, sets, number line, and balanced equations) using dominoes. They also learn about the order (commutative) property for addition, the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction, and the result of adding 0 (additive identity).
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Numerals, Adding, Subtracting
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This lesson plan has a solid research base,on which the activities have been built. After listening to the beginning of a story, children and teacher stop and discuss the story and how they think the story will end.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Responding to Stories
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children find information about animals in winter by listening to read-alouds of paired factual and fictional books and by using online resources. They also learn to organize the information using a K-W-L graphic organizer.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Children's Literature, Informational Text/Nonfiction, Comprehension, Communication, Listening Skills
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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Teachers can introduce this useful lesson by reading a number recognition or counting story to the class. Children should be given time to get acquainted with dominoes and practice counting the dots on each half.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Adding
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children find and discuss geometric shapes in familiar environments after being introduced to them by the teacher who reads aloud a picture book on shapes. Using models the children practice the names of the shapes.
Topics: Mathematics — Geometry, Flat Shapes, Characteristics of Shapes. Reading and Language Arts — Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words, Communication, Listening Skills, Songs and Poems
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this activity the children participate in the choosing, photographing, and making of environmental print "signs" for the classroom. Using photographs of real signs and other environmental print that children have seen on a trip outside of the classroom can be a great way to help them practice reading words that are familiar.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Vocabulary Development, Environmental Print, Writing Development, Writing with Children
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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REC Added Two Inclusive Classroom Bookshelf Sets
Do you wish you could find more picture books for your classroom that reflect your inclusive philosophy? Look at the REC Bookshelf for options.
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