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Standard ELA.AOR.1

ELA.AOR.1: Evaluate and critique key literary elements that enhance and deepen meaning within and across texts

Grade(s): 1

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2023

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Learning Activity | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: Kindergarten 1

This learning activity can be used with the children's book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and...

St. Patrick's Day Figurative Language Scoot

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3

Read aloud the book Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase (book can be found on YouTube) Have students work in groups to determine types of figurative language found in the book and how they shape...

African-American History Month: Enjoy and Learn from Great Resources for All Ages!

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Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

By reading picture book biographies, students will become familiar with the challenges that early African-Americans faced, but also how they triumphed in spite of these challenges. Also, other stories...

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2

The students will learn facts on Martin Luther King Jr. and his life.

Friends and Relationships with Christy Nexsen | Asynchronous Studio Lessons

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3

Christy Nexsen (Manning Primary School) leads a lesson on friendship, and analyzing characters, settings, and events.

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3

Written by: John Steptoe Read by: Yolanda Anderson, Commissioner with Richland One School District Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro, who is proud of his two...

Grandpa Green | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3

Written and Illustrated by: Lane Smith Read by: Tamara Cox Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this...

What Makes a Good Friend? | Asynchronous Studio Lessons

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Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3

What can I do at the end of this lesson? *I can make connections to text through reading and writing to make strong interdependent relationships. (Friends/Relationship)

The Day You Begin | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3 4

The Day You Begin By Jacqueline Woodson Illustrated By Rafael López Read by Bre Wilson There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel...

The Best Class Picture Ever! | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2

The Best Class Picture Ever! Written and Illustrated By: Denis Roche Read By: Martha Hearn and Kathleen Pennyway It's class picture day, and Class 202 is in an uproar. There's chaos everywhere. And...

Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3

Written and Illustrated By: David Ezra Stein Read by: Jessica Easterbrook It’s homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant...

Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3

SPECIAL INTERVIEW INCLUDED AFTER STORY Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast Written and Illustrated By: Sophie Gilmore Read By: Marcus Lattimore Crocodiles come from far and wide to seek Little Doctor...

Flash and Fancy | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3

Flash and Fancy: An Otter Adventure on the Waccamaw River By: Tom Doran and Christine Thomas Doran Illustrator: Nancy Van Buren Read by: Richard Cohn, ETV Commission Chairman At-Large A tale of rescue...

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? | Storytime with SCETV

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? By Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle Read by: Anthony Padgett, President and CEO of SCETV A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft...

Cinderella Stories

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Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2, 3

Students will have the opportunity to read three different versions of the story Cinderella. Over the course of a week, students will compare and contrast the three stories.

First Day Jitters!

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Grades: PreK, Kindergarten, 1, 2

Students will connect the feelings they have on the first week of school with the characters in the read-aloud story. They will discuss how the characters experiences are the same/different from their...

Guess my Location

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Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2

Students will work on reading comprehension skills in this lesson, more specifically, they will learn to formulate questions and come up with explanations by playing a guessing game with a partner or...

Click Clack Moo- Cause and Effect

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Grades: Kindergarten, 1, 2

The students will read to identify cause and effect. They will retell a story to show understanding, and answer questions about a story.

Juan Felipe Herrera: Bilingual Children's Books | Young Minds Dreaming | Ask an Author

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Grades: 1 2 3 4 5

Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of Mexican migrant farmers, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in Southern California. As a child, he attended school in a variety of small towns from San Francisco to San...

Similes In Pop Culture

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Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4

Students will learn about similes by finding them in popular culture.

Sequence of Events

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Grades: PreK, Kindergarten, 1, 2

Students will explore the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series and watch sequences of events unfold naturally. They will use this style of writing to create their own class book that models the If You...

Carmen Agra Deedy: About Her Books | Storyfest | Ask an Author

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5

Carmen Agra Deedy has been writing for children for over two decades. Born in Havana, Cuba, she came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1964. She grew up in Decatur, Georgia, where she lives today. Learn...

Storytelling (Night Before Christmas in Gullah) | Gullah Net

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3

Native Islanders share their folklore and history through storytelling and singing. Gullah storytellers often perform folktales that feature animals as the main characters. Much like tales heard in...

What a Friend in Gullah | Gullah Tales

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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3

Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in Gullah. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).