After reading books, students share book talks through digital storytelling. First, students plan scripts and then find images to illustrate their scripts. They also add text, narration, music as well as pan and zoom effects. Finally, the joy of reading is prompted through the sharing of the students' digital stories.

This resource provides a lesson which is designed to provide students with the opportunity to perform a close reading of a text. Students will respond to the provided text dependent questions, outline the text, and complete a comparitive essay.

This packet contains a curriculum-embedded CCLS?aligned task and instructional supports. The task is the culminating task at the end of a 3?5 week unit. Throughout their 9th grade year, students read informational and literary texts focused on responding to the essential question of ?Who am I?? In the study of this question, students will draw from a variety of sources, including texts addressing the social, political, economic, and cultural factors and relationships that build identity in order to analyze the place which rites of passage have in the 21st century.

This lesson is designed to provide students with the opporunity to enhance their understanding of allusion by examining artwork by Kehinde Wiley and comparing it to various works by the Old Masters. Students will use graphic organizers to identify qualities in two works to attempt to identify allusions that are made. As a culminating activity, students will use their skills to make a comparison of Pieter Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," W.H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and the myth of Icarus. Students will focus on the work's differences in tone and emphasis of human suffering.

This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event. In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.

This resource provides a lesson designed to guide a reading of The Scarlet Ibis. Students will complete a guided reading initially before rereading the text independently. The lesson provides guiding questions, vocabulary, as well as a culminating writing task.

This resource provides a lesson pertaining to a close reading of "A Long Thin Line". Students will complete an analysis using a graphic organizer, review the article using the SOAPStone method and finally repsond to the work in the form of a freestyle writing.

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This packet contains exit tickets for the standard MD.4. Exit tickets are written responses to questions posed at the end of a lesson. They are brief assessments which allow the teacher to determine student understanding of the concepts and skills taught that day. At the beginning of the year, or a blank copy of the exit ticket may need to be displayed on the board and read aloud to students.

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This packet contains exit tickets for the Kindergarten, Cluster 4 geometry standards. Exit tickets are written responses to questions posed at the end of a lesson. They are brief assessments which allow the teacher to determine student understanding of the concepts and skills taught that day. At the Kindergarten level, a blank copy of the exit ticket should be displayed on the board and read aloud to students. As teacher reads, students work independently on their own copy of the exit ticket.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.A Common Formative Assessment (CFA) provides a snapshot of current student understanding. It serves as a checkpoint, and may be used to guide future whole and small group instruction. This CFA addresses 2nd grade, Cluster 7 standards.  Answer key is provided.

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In this task, students identify shapes, describe attributes of shapes, and compare a two-dimensional and three-dimensional shape. This task may be used for instructional or assessment purposes.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.This packet contains exit tickets for the First Grade standards, OA.1 and OA.2.Exit tickets are written responses to questions posed at the end of a lesson. They are brief assessments which allow the teacher to determine student understanding of the concepts and skills taught that day. 

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In this task, students sort animals into categories of their choice, and solve problems related to the categories. The task may be used for instructional or assessment purposes.

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In this lesson, students build pattern block animals inspired by literature, describe and graph the shapes used, and interpret the data by asking and answering questions to develop the concepts of geometry and graphing.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers. This file contains a set of 2 tasks (including scoring rubric, recording sheet, printable materials, and student work samples).  The tasks may be used for instruction or assessment. Remix this resource to include addtional tasks. Sharing is caring!

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  This lesson will involve interviewing classmates about where they would like to spend their summer vacation.  Their choices will be the beach, mountains, time with a relative, or camping.  They will create a picture graph to represent the data collected.This lesson comes with printable materials and clipart for creating a class graph.

In this lesson, students will write a survey question, collect data, and explore ways to display data leading to a discussion of the purpose of bar graphs. The second portion of this lesson supports the students’ use of a bar graph. This lesson may take more than one day.

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In this task, interpret data on a chart, and answer problem solving questions related to the data. This task may be used for instructional or assessment purposes.

This lesson provides a guide for instructors to assist students with vocabulary acquisition and usage. Included within the resource are directions for extending this lesson for usage with multiple videos and various vocabulary lists. A rubric for grading and directions for peer evaluation are also provided.

This resource provides a lesson and activity wherein students will spend time examining the civil movements instigated by Thoreau, Gandhi and King; moreover, students will examine the influence of these men on one another. Students will complete research on all three men, analyze and draw a political cartoon, and respond and reflect through writing and discussion.