Lesson Plans

Indian Reading Series

How Wild Horses are Captured

Students engage in learning activities that provide opportunities for students to practice the identified dimensions of reading: vocabulary, fluency, decoding, and comprehension.
Grade: K-5

Why Bluejay Hops

Students engage in learning activities related to the Chipmunk story that provide opportunities for students to practice the identified dimensions of reading: vocabulary, fluency, decoding, and comprehension.
Grade: K-5

Philene and Buttons

Students engage in learning activities that provide opportunities for them to practice the identified dimensions of reading: vocabulary, fluency, decoding, and comprehension.
Grade: K-2

Birds of a Feather

Students engage in integrated learning activities that build observation and categorization skills as well as knowledge of different bird species and bird habitat. Subjects: reading, science, and art.
Grade: K-3

Skunk - A Simple Matter of Self-Defense

Students engage in integrated learning activities that build observation, categorization, and compare/contrast skills as well as knowledge of different animal defensive adaptations. Subjects: reading, science, writing, and art.
Grade: K-3

Raven Helps the Indians

Students engage in a review of sequencing skill through one of the many Raven stories of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
Grade: K-3

Far Out A Rodeo Horse

Students explore rodeo events and dramatize these events in sequence. Activities also are geared to increase phonemic awareness through onset and rime and syllable blending.
Grade: K-1

Coyote and the Stars

Students will engage in activities to recognize, compare and contrast coyote and spider (Anansi) as two popular trickster type characters in folktales. Students will use the information they derive from reading and discussion to create a biopoem that describes either coyote or spider.
Grade: 4-7

Reading Dimensions through Chipmunk Tales

Students engage in learning activities related to the Chipmunk story that provide opportunities for students to practice the identified dimensions of reading: vocabulary, fluency, decoding, and comprehension.
Grade: K-2