Kindergarten Lesson Plans

Titles that appear in bold represent the best of the "Share the Knowledge" units presented over the years at Core Knowledge National Conferences.

Language Arts/ English

I. Reading and Writing

• Phonics and Decoding Strategies for Struggling Readers Using Core Knowledge Poems
• The “Fantastic Four” Fables to Teach Reading Skills (2007)
• Let’s Write Around the World (2005)
• Poultry in Motion (2003)

II. Poetry

• Kinder Poems and Songs (2004)
• Mother Goose on the Loose: Teaching Reading and Writing in a Way That's Exciting (2003)

III. Fiction

• Classic Storytelling with a Technology Twist (2007)
• From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After ...and Everything in Between (2003)
• Story Stretching: Tall Tales in North America (2002)
• Aesop Appeals To Me! (2000)
• And the Moral Is… (2000)
• We're Building Heroes (1997)

IV. Sayings and Phrases

• Teaching Language Arts with Sayings and Phrases (2003)
• The Kindergarten Book of Sayings (2000)

History and Geography

World:

I. Spatial Sense

• Mapping Our Way to South America: A Study of Spatial Sense (2005)
• Maps and Globes: Where in the World are We? (1999)
• Investigating Our Place in the World (1998)

II. Overview of the Seven Continents

• Let’s Write Around the World (2005)
• Passport to the World (2004)
• "Goodall" Africa: Geography, Science, and Folk Tales (2003)
• Christopher Columbus: The Man, The Myth, and the Legend ( 2001)
• G’Day Mate! (2000)

American:

I. Geography

• Story Stretching: Tall Tales in North America (2002)

II. Native Americans

• Native Americans (2004)
• Native American Indians: Wampanoags (2003)
• The Diné (Navajo) Native American Tribe (2002)
• Three Native American Groups (1999)

III. Early Exploration and Settlement

• A Journey to the New World: Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims (2005)
• Christopher Columbus: The Man, The Myth, and the Legend (2001)

IV. Presidents, Past and Present

• Washingon, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln (2008)
• A Collage of American Icons: Presidents and Symbols (2007)
• Presidents and Symbols of Past, Present, and Future (2006)
• The Presidents of Mount Rushmore (2003)
• Hooray for the Red, White and Blue! (1999)

V. Symbols and Figures

• Hooray for the Red, White and Blue! (1999)

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