Learning Lessons With Amy Labrasciano: central message

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Celebrating Diversity with Amazing Grace

Click here to find ideas for finding a story's central message in a picture book. Included are ideas and an anchor chart for the very engaging book Amazing Grace. Get your back to school plans ready for character education. Perfect for elementary classrooms and homeschool children. {kindergarten, first, second, third, k, 1st, 2nd, 3rd}

It is very important to children that they are represented in the classroom curriculum. It's also important to represent quality diverse books in class. These reasons are why Amazing Grace is so perfect for your classroom. Every year my students fall in love with Grace, she's resilient, smart, creative and relatable. One of my favorite parts of Amazing Grace is that it is a series that has at least another picture book and chapter book. This is just perfect for 2nd and 3rd graders! Once the kids are hooked with Amazing Grace they love to read on their own during independent reading. I love to teach this book with the standard -finding the story's lesson or central message. Make sure to watch the video below for more information!

Central Message - ELA Lesson Plans #15

Click here to learn all about teaching ELA in the second grade classroom. These free and fun lesson outlines will detail curriculum and ideas for all informational, literature and writing standards in my 2nd grade elementary classroom. This week's lessons will be all about: Jan Brett, Trouble with Trolls, Home For Christmas, The Mitten, moral, retelling and writing paragraphs. Your second grade students will love the lessons and activities shared here. These lesson outlines are added and updated almost each week.

Are you ready for winter break yet?Holy moly I sure hope I can make it through the week. This week's lessons are all about good quality literature from one of my favorite children's authors, Jan Brett. The texts are sure to engage students and if nothing else, they will have students sitting quietly listening to the story for about 30 minutes. The lesson plans are broken up by two days at a time to allow for a little chaos to ensue. This keeps me from losing my mind when I don't get to everything. We have plenty of Jan Brett's winter books to add in if time allows. We'll end the week with The Mitten because it's an easier text for students to understand when all they have is winter break on their mind. My present to parents is reading Home For Christmas and exploring the central message. It teaches students that their parents aren't as bad as they think and home is much better than other alternatives. Writing will follow the same design as last week and students will explore another holiday.

Central Message - ELA Lesson Plans #7

One of the mini lessons that I try to weave through my day is on falling in love with reading and introduction to new series. If you have ever read the book "Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind" you'll be able develop a picture of me in your head of how I do this. This week we will be exploring the series "Little Critters". More specifically we'll be looking at their fall series which I purchased from the restaurant Cracker Barrel. I'm sure you can find them on Amazon. You know I'm a sucker for thematic weeks. This week will have a subtle fall feeling from the critters series to our football workstations.

This week's post will look a bit different because I have my formal evaluation and just like every year, I'll leave you with my long lessons and free differentiated materials. Each week you only get to see my lesson outlines. I hope that you can use these long lessons and differentiated materials to see how you can reach all of the learners in your classroom.

The lesson plan template I use is from A Modern Teacher.