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Children will learn about what happens on Election Day.
Vocabulary: president, polling place, voting booth, future voter
Social Studies Focus: Election Day, voting, citizenship
Watch a Video:
Time to Vote
Read the Issue:
Hip, Hip, Hooray! It's Election Day
Play a Game: Make a Campaign Poster
Skill: text features
Complete Skill Sheets
Reading Checkpoint
Skill: key details
Color by Vowel
Skill: short vowels
A Letter from Norbert Know-It-All
Skill: text evidence, writing
Lesson Boosters
Paired Text Suggestion: If You Go with Your Goat to Vote by Jan Zauzmer
Phonics Focus: o_e Makes the Long o Sound
CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RL.1.1 key details; RF.1.2 vowel sounds; RI.1.5 text features; RI.1.10 read and discuss firstgrade texts; W.1.2 writing; SL.1.2 ask and answer questions
Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.
Skill: voting
Materials: Time to Vote! templates, box, crayons, scissors, pencils