presentation of knowledge and ideas 1st grade

Common Core State Standards Initiative

English Language Arts Standards » Speaking & Listening » Grade 1

Standards in this strand:, comprehension and collaboration:, presentation of knowledge and ideas:.

• Key Design Consideration
• Students Who are College and Career Ready in Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, & Language
• How to Read the Standards
• College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
• College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
• College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening
• College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Language
• Introduction for K-5
• Kindergarten
• Introduction for 6-12
• Grade 11-12
• Introduction
• Language Progressive Skills
• Measuring Text Complexity: Three Factors
• Range of Text Types for K-5
• Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Range of Student Reading K-5
• Staying on Topic Within a Grade & Across Grades
• Range of Text Types for 6-12
• Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Range of Student Reading 6-12
• English Language Arts Appendix A
• English Language Arts Appendix B
• English Language Arts Appendix C

How-To Essay Lesson Plan: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

*Click to open and customize your own copy of the  How-To Essay Lesson Plan . 

This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic How-To Essay , and supports the standard of writing informative and explanatory texts to convey information clearly and accurately. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Prompt students:

• Imagine you are welcoming a new student to our school. What directions would you give them to find our classroom? What steps should they follow?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

• Play the How-To Essay movie .  
• Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it. 

TIP : The pause button turns red to remind you to pause. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz , demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills. Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about how-to essays while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.

• Draw About It : Draw the materials you need to plant a seed.
• Activity : Create a set of exercises for Moby.
• Talk About It : Write how to do something in the flowchart.
• Write About It : Write the steps for making your favorite sandwich.

More to Explore 

Writing Unit : Continue to build understanding around writing a how-to essay by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.

Teacher Support Resources :

• Tips for Using Annie’s Notebook
• Classroom Activities
• Family and Homeschool Activities  

Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

• BrainPOP Jr. (K-3)
• BrainPOP ELL
• BrainPOP Science
• BrainPOP Español
• BrainPOP Français
• Set Up Accounts
• Single Sign-on
• Manage Subscription
• Quick Tours
• About BrainPOP

• Terms of Use
• Privacy Policy
• Trademarks & Copyrights

• Video Resources
• Other Resources
• Grades K-12
• Grades 9-10
• Grades 11-12
• Assessments
• Helpful Websites
• Grades 9-12
• Core Curriculum Materials
• Open Education Resources (OER)
• Standards Search
• Benchmark Maps
• Document Library
• Instructional Guides
• Past Webinars
• CCR Protocols

Language Arts Grade 1 Common Core Standards

Language arts by grade.

K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12 K-12

Language Arts Resources

Get the pdf, advanced standards search.

Launch Search

We Want Your Feedback!

Tell us what you think about the new Standards Toolkit Website. Take the Survey

Recent Posts

• Crayons – 2.OA.1, 2.NBT.5
• Pizza – 2.OA.1, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.9
• Basketball Game – 2.OA.1, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.6, 2.NBT.9
• Candies – 2.OA.1, 2.NBT.5, 2.NBT.6, 2.NBT.9
• Students – 2.OA.1, 2.NBT.5, 2.MD.6

Subscribe to the RSS Feed

Create, collaborate, and share with Edmodo!  Sign-up or access Edmodo now.

If you already have an edmodo account, get teacher group codes here!

Popular Tags

Home » 1st Grade Teaching Resources » 16 Comprehensive 1st Grade Lesson Plans That Engage Students

16 Comprehensive 1st Grade Lesson Plans That Engage Students

When planning first grade lesson plans many teachers look for creative ways to engage students and get them moving while reviewing fundamental concepts. As teachers sit down to plan lessons for the semester, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. 

Table of Contents

How do you write a first grade lesson plan that students understand, 16 comprehensive 1st grade lesson plans, what are the lessons in grade 1, check out these additional 1st grade resources.

Many teachers build their lesson plans using resources widely shared from other teachers. Sharing resources is a great way to find unique lesson plans that actually work. 

Some tips for  writing a lesson plan  include:

• Making sure you plan your lesson plans to incorporate different learning styles
• Creating lesson plans that build on prior learning
• Thinking about activities that are  engaging for students
• Assessing students’ progress during the lesson so you know if you can move on

, whose marketplace is full of educational materials created by actual teachers (plus 50% of all revenues go to them), I’ve gathered a collection of some top lesson plans for you to adapt to your own teaching style and your classroom needs. You will find a great selection of topics, subjects, games, activities, and teaching content that focus on first grade concepts. These resources are created by teachers and posted for others to incorporate into their classroom. 

Best First Grade Math Lesson Plans

Number and Operations Counting and Ordering Objects

This chapter mini  lesson plan provides curriculum-based content in the form of real-world word problems focused on counting and ordering objects . This digital lesson can be projected for the class or printed out so students can work more independently. Students can also access the activities on a PC software table. This lesson plan also meets Common Core State Standards, STEM initiatives, and is written to NCTM.

Algebra – Digital Lesson Plan

This ready-made math program has over 150 individual activities on over 80 engaging and highly interactive screen pages. Your students will have ample opportunity to learn all the expectations within the NCTM and your State Curriculum Math Strand of Algebra. 

In addition to both task and drill activities to provide children with a well-rounded learning experience, there are also pre-assessment activities,  word problems  centered around real-life experiences, and memory match games, board games, and spinner games. After every chapter, test your student’s comprehension with an assessment quiz.

Math Phonics Subtraction: Quick Tips and Alternative Techniques

Students can work on their subtraction math facts with this specially designed lesson plan. Using rules, categories, patterns, and memory tools similar to those used in language arts, this lesson is great for introducing concepts or providing alternative techniques for a subtraction focus.

Math Fun For Grade One

Graphing and ordinal numbers are the focus of this comprehensive resource that is loaded with take-home worksheets and fun graphing art and activities. Ideal for centered or independent learning, this lesson plan comes with numerous pocket chart activities. Rebus chants and stories are also included. 

Best 1st Grade Language Arts Lesson Plans

Primary Reading Prompts Task Cards

Build fluency and comprehension skills, expand vocabulary, and use powerful reading strategies with these engaging reading center task cards that put a unique spin on language arts lesson planning.

High Frequency Sight Words: Sentence Completion

For understanding the Dolch Sight Words of High Frequency Sight Words, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of sentence completion activities. Also, materials included are printables, dolch sight word flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities to create a complete lesson plan.

Vocabulary Lesson Plans

This vocabulary based workbook and lesson plan provides a wide variety of activities designed to enrich and reinforce vocabulary skills taught at the early grade levels. Vocabulary words used in math, science, and social studies are introduced in varied formats such as crossword puzzles, picture identification, word scrambles, word searches, and matching. 

Learning to identify words and comprehend their meanings provides the basis for successful reading. Each activity in this plan features a theme to promote interest in and retention of knowledge of learning the new vocabulary. The exercises are designed so a child can work with a minimum of supervision in a classroom or at home.

Fairy Tales Grades 1–2

This fairy tales unit combines traditional fairy tales with new and exciting activities that will enchant young students. Included in this digital lesson plan are 20 Task Cards, most being open-ended, a student record sheet, fully illustrated stories; a fairy tale trivia game, reinforcement activities for ordinals, alphabetical sequence , classification, dialogue, math, and visual discrimination. 

Treehouse Animated Writing Activity Short Film

This resource allows students to explore writing in a fun way. They will engage with an animated short film “Tree House.” It includes a short animated story and activities for sequencing, true/false, main ideas and details, and summarizing. It includes 1 PowerPoint with 13 ready-to-display slides.

Best First Grade Science Lesson Plans

Hands-on Physical-Science: Force and Motion

Students will get excited about force and motion with this lesson plan that helps them study balanced and unbalanced forces, measure the effect of gravity and air resistance, measure the distance of lightning by watching and listening for thunder, make models of water, sound, and light waves, experience static electricity, describe a solid, liquid, and gas, and make a compound machine. 

Each concept is paired with hands-on experiments and comprehension activities. This lesson plan also includes reading passages, graphic organizers, and before-you-read and assessment activities in 1 product file. 

Wind Energy Fact File

This resource is a 31-page download to use in a lesson where students can examine texts in a cross-curricular way. Students will practice reading skills, such as character analysis and author’s purpose , while also exploring science topics such as wind energy and conservation. 

The focus text for this resource is  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind . There are lesson plans for 7 days worth of instruction as well as a STEAM extension activity. Everything students will need to complete this as a fact file or lapbook is included in this 1 PDF with ready-to-print pages.

Animal Science Unit: All About Bees

This lesson plan has real photos, non-fiction articles, crafts, worksheets, and writing templates to round out a unit about honey bees. This package has a variety of levels of reading and writing resources too so you can differentiate for all of your students. 

It includes 1 zip file with a Google Doc describing what is included, JPEGs of pictures explaining some of the individual activities, and a 98-page PDF with ready-to-print pages.

Daffodils Lesson and PowerPoint

This lesson pack is great for classroom use or for home-education. It includes an 18 slide narrated PowerPoint to help children learn about daffodils, starting with the bulb under the ground; the PowerPoint shows how daffodils grow and teaches about the bulb, leaves, stem, buds, calyx (the papery covering of the buds), petals, trumpet and pollen. 

Hands-on Physical Science: Matter and Materials

Provide a unique way for students to learn about matter and materials with this lesson plan. Students can do these activities in teams to increase social skills. Each concept is paired with hands-on experiments and comprehension activities to ensure students are engaged and fully understand the concepts. It has reading passages, graphic organizers, and before-you-read and assessment activities in 1 Product File. 

The Biggest Night Light: A Unit on the Moon

The moon is visible in the sky on most nights of the year. Help your students understand more about the glowing orb in the sky with nonfiction text, activities, and worksheets in this lesson packet. It includes 1 PDF with all content and 7 ready-to-print pages.

Moon Walk History

Extend your lesson on the moon by going back in time and incorporating some history to learn about the first time people from the U.S. stepped foot on it. Students can engage in fun, educational activities that will make them feel like they’ve been with the astronauts to the moon and back! 

In 1st grade students learn the fundamentals of many subjects that they will later build on throughout elementary school. Students will be challenged to become more adept at paying attention, teamwork, following instructions, asking questions, and gaining confidence. 

Here is a list of the topics that are commonly covered in 1st grade common core standards:

• Social studies
• Visual arts
• Language arts
• Word problems
• Character building
• Practical life

Whether you are running behind on lesson planning, are stumped on how to teach a certain topic, or your students have extra questions about certain subjects, you will be able to supplement your already amazing teaching when you incorporate 1st grade lesson plans created and shared by educational professionals.

About the Author Jen Skolsky has a background in English, Psychology, and Creative Writing. She has taught for many years in international education, including ESL for all ages, middle school literature, speech and debate; high school AP Psychology, AP Language, AP Literature; university level Academic Writing, and Chinese Medicine Theory. She now works in marketing and book publishing.

Share Article:

Download unlimited teaching resources, join free today, teach simple.

The team behind Teach Simple is a small but dedicated group who are passionate about education and making a positive impact on the lives of teachers and students.

We have a lot of interesting articles and educational resources from a wide variety of authors and teaching professionals.

21+ First Grade Poems To Teach Kids About Poetry

50+ first grade spelling words + with matching worksheets.

Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Teach Simple

• Teacher Sign In
• LTA Toolkit
• Digital Teacher Guides

Common Core 1st Grade Speaking and Listening Standards

LiteracyTA provides speaking and listening skills that Common Core educators use to teach Common Core 1st Grade Speaking and Listening Standards.

The Common Core literacy standards are the what. The skills below and the related eCoach discussions are the how. In the table below, you will find next to each Common Core speaking and listening standard practical skills, classroom resources, rich conversations and teaching ideas that move all students toward achieving Common Core standards!

Common Core Literacy Standards

Comprehension and collaboration.

Peer Review Groups

Engage in Structured Debates

An Argument for Collaborative Work

4 Lesson Plans for Socratic Seminar

5 Things You Must Do Week 1

Organizing Student Talk in Collaborative Literacy Work

Supporting Your Tech Initiatives: Technology in Your Standards

New Tools for Analyzing Speeches

Making the Common Core More Common...In Our Classrooms

Academic Summary and Small Groups

5 Steps to Teaching Argumentative Writing

Bringing the Socrative Seminar to the 21st Century

Investigative Reading, the 2012 Election, and My Freshmen: A True Story

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

A writing process for all.

Top 10 topics to write about/research in 2015-2016

Digitally Mark Texts and Take Notes Using Mobile Devices, Laptops, and PCs

Add LiteracyTA to Your Mobile Device

Facilitating On-line Collaboration and Argument Analysis with Google+ Hangout

Group Work Presentations Get an Upgrade

5 Essential Partner Routines

• Skill Library
• Informational Texts
• Prompt Builder
• Literacy Standards
• Teacher Talk
• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School
• LTA Toolkit Pro
• The EL Teacher's Guidebook
• Collaborative Work
• Free Reading Program
• Free Reading Program for Elementary
• Free Reading Program for Middle School
• Free Reading Program for High School
• Free EL Reading Program
• Free Intervention Reading Program
• Free Online Reading Program
• Reading Assessments
• Reading Standards
• Writing Standards
• Speaking Standards
• Language Standards
• Common Core Standards

ZAP Classes

Interested in a ZAP Class at your school?

Already have access.

Search the California Content Standards

• Career Technical Education
• Computer Science
• English Language Arts
• English Language Development
• Health Education
• History–Social Science
• Mathematics
• Physical Education
• School Library
• Science (CA NGSS)
• World Languages
• Search the Standards

English Language Arts Standards

• An asterisk (*) notation indicates the reader should see “Research to Build and Present Knowledge” in Writing and “Comprehension and Collaboration” in Speaking and Listening for additional standards relevant to gathering, assessing, and applying information from print and digital sources.
• Standards with California additions appear with a “CA” notation at the end.
• For more information, see the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards .
• These Standards were approved by the CA State Board of Education in 2010.
• Next Page of Results

Standard Identifier: RF.K.3

Standard identifier: sl.k.4, standard identifier: sl.k.5, standard identifier: sl.k.6, standard identifier: rf.1.3, standard identifier: sl.1.4, standard identifier: sl.1.5, standard identifier: sl.1.6, standard identifier: rf.2.3, standard identifier: sl.2.4.

• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas refers to the students’ ability to think across related texts to compare and contrast a theme/topic.

Written by: Seanarae Smith

• Share on Twitter
• Share on Facebook
• Share on LinkedIn
• Share on Pinterest

By Seanarae Smith

The Common Core CCR Anchor Standard Integration of Knowledge and Ideas refers to the students’ ability to think across related texts to compare and contrast a theme/topic (Calkins et al., 2012). For example, students compare a topic such as friendship in the Frog and Toad books to friendship in Charlotte’s Web . The goal of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas is for students to use multiple sources to address a question or solve a problem. Students are also expected to be able to research a topic using credible sources and present their finding in writing or in an oral presentation.

The table below provides a detailed look at the CCSS CCR Anchor Standard Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

(Visit the CCSS website to see the complete CCSS for Integration of Knowledge and Ideas).

The CCR anchor standards within Integration of Knowledge and Ideas require students to look deeper at text as they make connections and comparisons across various texts. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas requires students to compare two texts or to compare a written text to other media such as video or audio (McLaughlin & Overturf, 2013; Calkins et al., 2012). Students must be able to use technology in meeting the requirements of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas using online depictions of literary text compared with printed text McLaughlin & Overturf, 2012). As students compare themes/topic across multiple texts they will develop a deeper understanding about the topic (Calkins et al., 2012). According to the CCSS, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Anchor Standard 8 is only applicable to reading informational text. This is because in reading literature there are often collections of books on one particular theme. However, when reading nonfiction text the reader will need to read multiple texts on a topic to compare the authors’ ideas, information, perspectives, and reasoning (Calkins et al., 2012). Integration of Knowledge and Ideas also requires students to compare and contrast two or more texts on a similar topic and to understand how they develop similar claims (Calkins et al., 2012; McLaughlin & Overturf, 2013).

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Impact for Students who Read Braille

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas requires students to read a wide range of text varying in text complexity, lengths, and genres. Students are expected to compare and contrast between the various text types as well as between authors, videos, and plays. Students who read braille often do not have access to a wide range of reading materials and therefore, lack experience reading a wide range of text. They also do not have access to visual media. In meeting the requirements of this standard students who read braille must have access to a variety of reading materials in their primary learning medium. They must also be provided with access to visual media including audio description.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas requires students to activate their prior knowledge to aid in their comprehension of the concepts and ideas presented in the various types of text. Students who are sighted gain knowledge about many ideas or concepts through seeing things in the environment or participating in a variety of activities on a daily basis, thus providing them with lots of prior knowledge about concepts or ideas. However, for students who read braille prior knowledge of ideas and concepts is limited to what they have actually experienced through their sense of touch, hearing, taste, and smell. Therefore, they may have limited life experiences, resulting in their inability to understand certain ideas or concepts presented in various texts. To meet the goals of Integration of Knowledge Ideas students who read braille must be provided with meaningful experiences to aid them in their understanding of concepts or ideas presented in various text genres.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas expects students to use credible sources to conduct research and present their findings in a written or oral presentation. Students who read braille are often presented with their materials by a TVI and therefore, do not have experience and also may not have access to a variety of sources to conduct research. To achieve the requirement of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas students who read braille must be explicitly taught how to use resources to conduct research. They must also be provided with access to resources (e.g. electronic dictionaries, online libraries, magazines, videos with audio descriptions) that they can use to conduct research.

Integration of Knowledge of and Ideas: Characteristics of Proficient Readers

Proficient readers of Integration of knowledge and Ideas read lots of texts in a range of text complexity, lengths, and genres. They read different kinds of text differently (e.g. if reading narrative text they might look closely at the setting or characters versus reading expository text in which they might construct and revise summaries of what they have read). They apply reading strategies as they read (e.g. make notes, monitor and repair when comprehension breaks down, and reread sections for clarity). Proficient readers of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas have lots of experience comparing and contrasting themes or topics, stories, genres, and author’s. They activate their prior knowledge when reading on themes or topics, stories, genres, and authors. Proficient readers of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas understand how to use resources to further and expand their knowledge including audio, video and multimedia. They apply their comprehension skills as they examine text on the same topic and determine where the interpretations disagree.

Integration of Knowledge of and Ideas: Characteristics of Struggling Readers

Good comprehension requires memory and the ability to synthesize material. Struggling readers of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas may not be able to recall what they read in the text. They may also have poor reading comprehension. The inability to recall or understand information will result in the students’ inability to synthesize information to create a written or oral presentation. Struggling readers of Integration of Knowledge and Ideas may not understand the difference between an argument and persuasion or between fact and opinion.  To meet the expectation of this standard student must be able to examine the author’s argument. Struggling readers may not understand how to analyze an author’s argument to determine if the evidence supports the claim. Struggling readers of Integration of Knowledge may require additional support or practice in comparing and contrasting themes, stories, genres, plays, etc. Finally, they may apply few or no reading comprehension strategies as they read.

Additional Resources

Google Scholar an internet tool for student research: http://scholar.google.com/ .

• Braille Brain
• About Braille Brain
• Braille Training Program
• READING: Foundational Skills for Reading
• Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
• Braille Hand Movement and Refreshable Braille Displays
• Conventions of Standard English: Standard One
• Conventions of Standard English: Standard Two
• Writing and Language
• Craft and Structure
• Key Ideas and Details
• Best Practices for Teaching Braille and STEM to the Visually Impaired
• Assistive Technology to Support STEM Subjects for the Visually Impaired
• Compensatory Skills: A Focus on Organization
• Foundational Skills for STEM
• Math Instruction for Students with Visual Impairments
• Science Instruction for Students with Visual Impairments
• Tactile Graphics

• Foundational Skills for Reading

Keep reading

Ideas for Teaching Tracking and other Tactile Skills

Experience Stories for Functionally Blind Pre-Readers

Motor Activities To Encourage Pre-Braille Skills