RF.K.1 Lesson Plans
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1
:"Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print."
These lesson plans can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Farm Alphabet Bingo
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Farm Alphabet Bingo
In this lesson, students will fill their barns with farm animals by matching, identifying, and connecting the sounds of letters with their symbols.
Preschool
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Fishing For Letters
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Fishing For Letters
Fishing for new ways to review letters? Let your preschoolers cast a line to catch an uppercase fish and return it to the corresponding lowercase fishbowl.
Preschool
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Acing The Letter A!
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Acing The Letter A!
Ace the letter A with this lesson! Your students will love completing these colorful activities to get to know uppercase and lowercase A.
Kindergarten
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Recognizing Upper and Lowercase Letters
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Recognizing Upper and Lowercase Letters
In this lesson, music, games, and a tricky maze help your students recognize uppercase and lowercase letters. All these activities are sure to keep kids both engaged and learning.
Preschool
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Hungry Animal Letters
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Hungry Animal Letters
Satisfy your students' hunger for learning in this quick and fun letter recognition activity.
Preschool
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Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B
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Beautiful Butterflies: The Letter B
All about the "B"utiful butterfly! Use this kinesthetic and creative lesson about the butterfly to focus on the letter B. Your students will also love learning about the butterfly life cycle.
Kindergarten
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Reading Winners
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Reading Winners
Who will win the race? Help your class build essential pre-reading skills with a friendly competition. Your students will race to identify the author, illustrator, and understand all the parts of a book in this engaging lesson.
Kindergarten
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Alphabet Fishing
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Alphabet Fishing
Hook your students on reading with this lesson that helps them identify the shapes of letters.
Preschool
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Winning Hopscotch: Sight Words
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Winning Hopscotch: Sight Words
Have your students jump into this fun reading lesson. It features an engaging game of hopscotch and lots of sight word practice.
Preschool
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The Quaint Letter Q
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The Quaint Letter Q
There will be no question that students will know all about the letter Q after this engaging lesson. Teach your students this letter Q lesson so they can practice identifying, saying, and forming the letter.
Preschool
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ABC Movin’
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ABC Movin’
Get your preschoolers moving with this small group activity! This kinesthetic lesson, designed for 2-4 students, combines reviewing letters of the alphabet with gross motor skills.
Preschool
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Yummy Peanut Butter and Jelly
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Yummy Peanut Butter and Jelly
Who doesn't love peanut butter and jelly? This lesson has the potential to get a little messy as you reinforce the letter S!
Preschool
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Full of Fantastic Fun: The Letter F
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Full of Fantastic Fun: The Letter F
Fantastic! Fun! Fabulous! In this phonics lesson, your class will learn all about the letter F through words, letter-sound correspondence, writing, and a fun frog song.
Preschool
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The Letter L: Let's Make Lemonade
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The Letter L: Let's Make Lemonade
Who doesn't love a cold glass of lemonade on a hot day? In this lesson students will learn about the letter L, work together to make a pitcher of lemonade, and use the language experience approach to create a class story.
Preschool
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Earth Day Letter Hunt
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Earth Day Letter Hunt
Help your students learn uppercase and lowercase letters while teaching them about environmental responsibility with an Earth Day letter scavenger hunt.
Preschool
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Matching Letters
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Matching Letters
Let your students practice their letter recognition skills with this hands-on activity that teaches them the difference between upper and lower case letter.
Kindergarten
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ABC Cowboy Duel
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ABC Cowboy Duel
Through fun activities, your students will get to repeatedly see, hear, and say letters. This can be adapted and used to teach or review all the letters in the alphabet.
Kindergarten
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ABC Classroom Quilt
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ABC Classroom Quilt
Practice number sequence and letter-sound correspondence with your class in this hands-on lesson. Your students will create a construction paper letter "quilt" to display and reference for help with these essential skills.
Preschool
Math
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The Letter E
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The Letter E
Get your preschoolers engaged in learning the letters of the alphabet through different mediums. Your kids will have fun with chalk, shaving cream, and even play dough as they discover the letter E.
Preschool
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Beach Letter Matching
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Beach Letter Matching
Get your hands dirty with some beach matching! Use this hands-on activity to help your students match upper- and lowercase letters with sea creatures and bubbles.
Preschool
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Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds
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Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds
Read and roll! This interactive game can be used as an engaging activity or an assessment tool that allows you to easily monitor your students’ ability to blend phonemes together to create words.
Kindergarten
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F is for Fire Safety!
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F is for Fire Safety!
F is for fire safety! In this lesson plan, introduce the letter F and teach about fire safety at the same time. This engaging lesson is filled with movement and a lot of learning fun!
Preschool
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Identifying Parts of a Book
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Identifying Parts of a Book
Let your students learn more about books with this lesson that helps them learn to identify key parts of a physical book. This information will have them well prepared for research projects later on.
Kindergarten
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The Letter M: Uppercase and Lowercase
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The Letter M: Uppercase and Lowercase
Rhyming, movement, coloring, cutting, and gluing will help your students learn about the letter M! In this lesson, your students will become familiar with the uppercase and lowercase versions of the letter.
Kindergarten
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Seek and Find Sight Words
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Seek and Find Sight Words
Let your students seek the winning prize in this word and letter recognition activity. Part scavenger hunt and part language practice, this lesson is sure to please young readers.
Kindergarten
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Letter Basket Shooting
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Letter Basket Shooting
Have students bring their “A” game! In this lesson, young learners must distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters in order to properly shoot balls into the right baskets.
Kindergarten
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Edible Tree
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Edible Tree
Your students will create their own edible Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees! In this lesson, your students will practice both math and literacy skills.
Preschool
Math
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Robert the Rose Horse: The Letter R
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Robert the Rose Horse: The Letter R
This teacher-approved lesson is sure to get your kids ready for reading. Students will love learning about the letter R with a silly story and game.
Preschool
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Marvelous Mrs. Mary: The Letter M
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Marvelous Mrs. Mary: The Letter M
In this lesson, students will learn about the marvelous letter M. They'll also have fun working on a hands-on arts and crafts project to form their own "M"s.
Preschool
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Thanksgiving ABC's
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Thanksgiving ABC's
Young students like order and categorization. They’ll get both along with reading skills practice in this Thanksgiving-themed alphabetizing lesson!
Kindergarten
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