We planned your small group lessons for you, and they’re cross-curricular, so you can build multiple skills at once! No extra planning, no extra time!

Introducing Cross-Curricular Small Group Lessons: Volume 3, Family Traditions & Exploring Print!

Every lesson in this pack weaves foundational literacy skills into the other areas you’re already working to build: math, science, social-emotional learning, fine motor, and gross motor.

Instead of one more separate activity competing for time in your day, each lesson becomes a single meaningful moment. Children follow a recipe, make cards for someone they love, act out sentences, and investigate real books, all while building the print awareness and concepts of print that set the stage for reading and writing.

Each lesson takes just 5–7 minutes, works with 3–5 children at a time, and is designed to be introduced once and repeated with every small group throughout the week. No extra planning, no extra prep, just deeper learning woven into the day you’re already running.

Here’s what makes them amazing:

✔ Cross-Curricular by Design: Every lesson pairs literacy with another area of development, such as math, science, social-emotional learning, fine motor, or gross motor, so children are learning multiple skills at once.

✔ Five Ready-to-Teach Lessons: A Recipe for Our Class (Math + Science), Cards for Someone Special (Fine Motor), Say It Like You Mean It (SEL and Punctuation), Holiday Book Delivery (Gross Motor), and Book Investigators (Science + Fine Motor).

✔ Consistent, Easy-to-Follow Structure: Overview, Learning Goals, Vocabulary, Materials, Before You Begin, and a full Let’s Investigate! walkthrough for every lesson.

✔ Built-In Differentiation: Provide Support, Offer a Challenge, and Extend Learning sections mean every lesson flexes to meet each child where they are.

✔ Home Connection Strips Included: Pre-written, ready-to-cut take-home strips for every lesson so families can extend the learning at home.

✔ Printables Included: A visual smoothie recipe, sentence actor cards, punctuation cards, emotion face cards, holiday basket labels, and a Parts of a Book cut-and-paste activity sheet.

Why Teachers Love These Lessons:

• A ready-made, professional resource that plans your small groups for you!

• Connects learning to children’s own families, celebrations, and traditions, so every lesson feels personal and meaningful.

• Makes print concrete: children follow a picture recipe, dictate their own messages, use punctuation to change how a sentence sounds, and hunt for titles, authors, and letters with magnifying glasses.

• Deepens the learning already happening in your classroom instead of adding one more thing to your plate.

• Simple, easy to use...no planning needed!

  
  

This is a 46-page digital download.