Kindergarten through Grade 3
Lesson Plans by Unit
A unit is a short set of lessons on one topic, in teaching order. Every lesson has an objective, the pages to hand out, and a teacher note. Most lessons also have a tool to project and on-screen practice.
44 units282 lessons
Kindergarten
Math
See these units week by week: Kindergarten Math Scope and Sequence
Position Words, Size, and Patterns
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Position words · Find every one like it · Biggest and tallest · Put them in order by size · What can we measure? · What comes next?
Counting to 10
12 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: One for each · Touch and count · Write the numbers 0 to 9 · Count and write how many · Make a group of that many · Still the same number · Color by number · How many? Look fast · Match them up: more, fewer, or the same · More and fewer · One more, one less · Which number is greater?
Shapes All Around
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Name the shape · Count the sides · Flat or solid? · Name the solid shapes · Build shapes from pieces · Mirror pictures
Counting in Order to 20
7 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Write the numbers 11 to 20 · Count and write how many: up to 20 · Fill in the missing numbers · Connect the dots in order · Before, after, and counting back · Count on from a number · First, second, third
Sorting, Tallies, and the Days of the Week
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Count each kind · Tally marks · Take a good guess · Which is heavier? · The days of the week
Adding and Taking Away Within 10
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: How many altogether? · Take away: how many are left? · Adding stories: some more come · Take-away stories: some go away · Put-together stories: how many in all?
Number Bonds and Partners of 10
8 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Number bonds to 5 and to 10 · Take apart 6 and 7 · Take apart 8 and 9 · How many more to make 10? · Partners of 10 · Add and subtract to color · Partners that make 20 · Odd or even?
Teen Numbers and Counting to 100
8 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Ten and some more · Teen numbers on two ten-frames · Build and draw a teen number · Ten and how many more? · Count to 50 · Count to 100 on the hundreds chart · Start at any number and count on · Count by tens to 100
Reading and writing
See these units week by week: Kindergarten Reading and Writing Scope and Sequence
Letters and Handwriting
7 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Lines, zigzags, and curves · Find the letter · Uppercase and lowercase letters · Write the letters · The alphabet in order · Trace and write words · All about me
Hearing Sounds in Words
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Hear the rhyme · Clap the syllables · Beginning sounds · Ending sounds and middle sounds · Say it slowly: one sound, one box · Build the word
First Words to Read
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Match words to pictures · Sight words · One and many · A or an? · sh and ch
Sorting, Opposites, and Story Order
4 lessons · about 2 weeks
Lessons: Sort into groups · Which one does not belong? · Opposites · First, next, last
Grade 1
Math
See these units week by week: Grade 1 Math Scope and Sequence
Addition and Subtraction Within 10
7 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Add two groups · Take away: how many are left? · Partners that make 10 · Count on and count back on a number line · Fact families to 10 · Find the missing number · Fact fluency within 10
Doubles, Three Addends, and Addition Pyramids
8 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: Doubles and halves · Near doubles · Make ten to add · Think addition to subtract · True or false? · Odd and even numbers · Add three groups · Addition pyramids (number walls)
Story Problems Within 20
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Word problems within 10 · Find the missing part · What happened in the middle? · How many more? How many fewer? · Stories with three numbers
Tens and Ones
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Teen numbers: one ten and some ones · Count the tens: 10 to 90 · Tens and ones · Number words · Compare and order two-digit numbers · Number of the day
The Hundreds Chart and Skip Counting
4 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Find a number on the number line · The hundreds chart · 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less · Count by tens, fives, and twos
Adding Within 100
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Add tens to a number · Subtract tens from tens · Add ones to a two-digit number · Add ones and make a new ten · Add two two-digit numbers: tens with tens, ones with ones · Add two two-digit numbers and make a new ten
Time, Calendar, and Coins
6 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Tell time to the hour and half hour · Draw the clock hands · Match the clocks · Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the months · Ordinal numbers to tenth · Count coins
Shapes, Measuring, and Graphs
9 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: What makes a shape that shape? · Tangram puzzles · Measure length with squares · No gaps, no overlaps · Sort into three groups · Sort, count, and read a picture graph · Read and make a bar graph · Patterns: two are missing · Equal shares: fair or not?
Reading and writing
See these units week by week: Grade 1 Reading and Language Scope and Sequence
Sounds, Spelling, and Syllables
6 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Rhyming words · Word families · Sound boxes · sh, ch, and th · Spell the picture word · Syllables
Reading Sentences and Stories
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Read and do · Fill in the missing word · Unscramble the sentence · Who, what, where · What happens next?
Words and How They Work
8 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: ABC order · Nouns, verbs, and adjectives · He, she, it, they · A or an: sort the words · Write the opposite · Two words that mean the same thing · From a little to a lot · Find the root word
Grade 2
Math
See these units week by week: Grade 2 Math Scope and Sequence
Fact Strategies Within 20
4 lessons · about 2 weeks
Lessons: Make ten to add: sums from 11 to 18 · Doubles and near doubles · Use ten to subtract · Think addition to subtract, and start the daily facts
Place Value to 1,000
8 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Bundle ten ones · Ten tens make one hundred · Count by fives and tens · Hundreds, tens, and ones · Expanded form and the value of a digit · Expanded form with a zero · Compare and order three-digit numbers · 100 more, 100 less
Adding and Subtracting Within 100
9 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: A number line that does not start at zero · Jumps on the hundreds chart · Jumps on an open number line · Add tens and ones, then put them together · Subtract and open a ten · Add and subtract vertically · Add and subtract within 100 · Add three and four two-digit numbers · Why does it work?
Story Problems Within 100
4 lessons · about 2 weeks
Lessons: One-step stories with a bar model · What was there at the start? · Compare stories: more and fewer · Two-step stories
Adding and Subtracting Within 1,000
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Add with blocks · Add three-digit numbers and make a new ten or hundred · Subtract with blocks · Subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping · Subtract across zeros
Measurement, Time, and Money
9 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: Measure with a ruler · Same length, two units · Estimate, then measure · How much longer? · Length story problems · Tell time to the nearest five minutes · Read a calendar · Count mixed coins · Shopping with money
Graphs and Grids
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: From tally marks to a bar graph · Make a graph from counts · Find a square on a grid · Read a line plot · Measure and make a line plot · Each picture counts as two
Equal Groups and Equal Shares
8 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: Odd and even with equal parts · Equal groups · Rows and columns · Rows and columns of squares · Count by threes and fours · Share fairly and make groups · Halves, thirds, and fourths · A fraction of a group
Shapes, Solids, and Symmetry
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Sort shapes by sides · Solid shapes around us · Faces, edges, and vertices (corners) · Is it a line of symmetry? · Finish the other half · Which one matches the shadow?
Reading and writing
See these units week by week: Grade 2 Reading and Writing Scope and Sequence
Sentences and Grammar
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Capital letters and end marks · Nouns, verbs, and adjectives: three bins · More than one: plural nouns · Today and yesterday: verb forms · Who does the pronoun stand for? · Write the question
Spelling, Word Building, and Word Choice
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Review: find sh in sentences · Spelling rules: which letters go here? · Compound words · Root words and word families · Synonyms · More exact words for "said"
Reading Stories and Writing
6 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Read a story and answer questions · Fill in the story's missing words · Write about a picture · Retell a story: first, next, then, at the end · An animal fact sheet · Cursive letters and connections
Grade 3
Math
See these units week by week: Grade 3 Math Scope and Sequence
Rounding, Adding, and Subtracting Within 1,000
7 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Round to the nearest ten · Round to the nearest hundred · Round, then estimate the sum · Add and subtract with regrouping · Make it balance · Is the sum odd or even? · Find the rule of a number pattern
Starting Multiplication
5 lessons · about 3 weeks
Lessons: Multiplication as equal groups · Multiplication hops · Turn the array around · Multiplication facts for 2 and 5 · Number machines
Division
7 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Divide by sharing · Divide by hopping back · The missing factor and fact families · The facts we still need · Break a hard fact into two easy ones · Division with a remainder · Multiply by multiples of 10
Story Problems with All Four Operations
4 lessons · about 2 weeks
Lessons: Multiplication and division word problems · Two-step stories: add and subtract · Two-step stories: multiply or divide · A letter for the unknown and an estimate to check the answer
Time, Temperature, Mass, and Liquid Volume
6 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Tell time to the minute · How much time passed? · Add and subtract time · Read a thermometer · Read a scale in grams · Read a measuring cup
Area and Perimeter
8 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Area: count the squares · Area of a rectangle: multiply the side lengths · Same area, different shape · Area of an L-shape · Perimeter: walk the edge · Perimeter: find the missing side · Same perimeter, different area · Count the cubes
Fractions
9 lessons · about 5 weeks
Lessons: Equal pieces · Name and shade a fraction · Find the whole · Unit fractions on the number line · Fractions on a number line · Which fraction is greater? · Equivalent fractions: different names, same amount · Whole numbers as fractions · A fraction of a group
Shapes and Data
6 lessons · about 4 weeks
Lessons: Right angles · Is it a rectangle? · How many lines of symmetry? · Graphs with a scale · A line plot with halves · Measure to the nearest quarter inch
Reading and writing
Words and Their Meanings
4 lessons · about 2 weeks
Lessons: Prefixes change the meaning · Words for go and words for look · The person word: bake, baker · Choose the right form of the word
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