In this activity, students will read a piece that is uploaded to SeeSaw by the teacher. The teacher may want to have students use the piece again in the year to measure growth.
The Glyfada Method is a formula to help students write essays by focusing on the most difficult part of an assignment: getting started. This method helps the writer discover what their main points are and what they have to say about each main point.
This resource provides examples of quick write prompts for Grade 4 Cluster 5. There are two formats available in this resource:
* This first is a Word Document that can be printed and distributed to students, read aloud, or presented on a Smart Board.
* The second is a Google Slide Deck that can be presented to students, uploaded to Google Classroom, or shared through other platforms.
These quick writes can be used whole group, small group, or as an individual assessment. The teacher may choose to model and practice a few questions as a whole group if students are new to the idea of Quick Writes before having them complete some on their own. These can be used to review concepts and/or as an exit ticket to assess the student's understanding of the standard.
This resource provides examples of quick write prompts for Grade 4 Cluster 5. It is remixable.
This resource provides examples of quick write prompts for Grade 4 Cluster 5.
This is a Word Document that can be printed and distributed to students, read aloud, or presented on a Smart Board.
These quick writes can be used whole group, small group, or as an individual assessment. The teacher may choose to model and practice a few questions as a whole group if students are new to the idea of Quick Writes before having them complete some on their own. These can be used to review concepts and/or as an exit ticket to assess the student's understanding of the standard.
Students will create posters based upon graded readers and present the posters to classmates. The lesson provides a template for the posters, instructions for presentations, and tips on student notetaking. This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners.
Author: Amy Yount, younta@gcsnc.com, Guilford County Schools, DH Newcomers Schools
At the NCRA conference, a presenter mentioned an activity called Guided Paragraph writing. This activity can be adapted to scaffold paragraph writing for MLs by asking questions and providing language frames.
In this lesson, students use balloons, plastic bags, and glass and metal rods to investigate static electricity and then write complete a series of writing assignments to describe what they have learned.
This lesson sensitizes students to the similarities and differences between cultures by comparing Shakespearean and Bunraku/Kabuki dramas. The focus of this comparison is the complex nature of revenge explored in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Chushingura, or the Treasury of the Loyal Retainers.
This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "The Heat Is On." It is a performance indicator that can be used to assess student understanding of the concepts addressed by the lesson. Students will describe a super hero who has the power to either add or remove heat from matter, and create a resume and illustration to depict their super hero.
The hero's journey is an ancient story pattern that can be found in texts from thousands of years ago or in newly released Hollywood blockbusters. This interactive tool will provide students with background on the hero's journey and give them a chance to explore several of the journey's key elements. Students can use the tool to record examples from a hero's journey they have read or viewed or to plan out a hero's journey of their own.
In this lesson, students read an article and write a graded review of the article. Students choose an article on a library trip before following specific instructions to write a review of the article in question.
This article assembles free resources from the Icebergs and Glaciers issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.
Water covers 71% of the earth?s surface?does it get the instructional time it deserves in your busy curriculum? Students wade right in to the study of bodies of water as they read and discuss science trade books and work together to develop Readers Theater scripts based on selected titles.
This activity provides students practice with clearly and effectively introducing a topic along with practice writing their opinion and stating it clearly in a way the reader understands.
In this lesson, students will take a trip back in time and look at the lifestyles and classes of people in the late 1800s. Using a WedQuest, text, and graphic organizers, students will learn about the class systems in the 1800s and how the use of symbolism increased the point of interest within the story.
This article describes how primary school teachers and their school technology specialist use classroom blogging to engage children in reading and writing.
Students align original FSA photographs from the 1930s and the author's own journal entries, to trace parallel elements John Steinbeck then incorporated into passages in The Grapes of Wrath.
This autobiographical piece tells what a neat, tidy rule-follower this author was in his youth—except for his yo-yo. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Sstudents will write a letter to a newspaper editor about the abolition of slavery. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.