9 minute instructional video with examples and definitions of verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony.

On this roadmap, each component of the standard is seperated into a circle so students can color in their standards with the "Color Key" of emerging, developing and proficient. 

This roadmap has the standard 4.OA.1 broken down into "I CAN" statements for students to track their progress as they complete their learning plans. Students will follow the "Color Key" to show their progress. 

Students will evaluate classroom presentations according to volume, stress, pacing, and pronunciation. Students will also use a rating sheet to compare and contrast effective and ineffective presentations according to volume, stress, pacing, and pronunciation.

Students will identify the differences between passive and active verb forms. Students will be given the opportunity to practice recognizing these verbs. Students will be able to identify these types of verbs within their own writings, and begin to wrtie in a more complete active voice than a possive one or a mistures of both.

This self-study guide from the University of Washington offers well organized resources on the topic of Indian education in the United States from the late 19th- early 20th centuries. The collection provides an overview, followed by detailed readings and images. Sections of the self-study: Part 1: Indian Boarding School Movement Part 2: Mission Schools Part 3: Boarding Schools Part 4: A Typical Daily Schedule Part 5: Negatives and Positives Part 6: Sample Daily Routine

Students will understand common Greek and Latin roots through participating in this engaging and interactive vocabulary game. Students will gain knowledge about word origins, and this knowledge and understanding will reinforce the connections among related words.

This google slide provides teachers and students with a chunking of the new Civic Literacy standards by unit and section. Students can change the color of each standard as they master it.This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

The Family Letters are intended to be sent home at the beginning and middle of Cluster 2. They explain big ideas of the cluster using family-friendly language. Families can also find tips for working with their children at home, digital games, videos, and books. This file contains both English and Spanish versions of the Cluster 2 Family Letters.

Students will use conventions of punctuation (including but not limited to commas, parentheses, dashes,ellpsis, semicolons, quotations, apostrophes) in student written sentences.

This interactive site shows how dots and tenuto ties change rhythmic values in standard time signatures. Audio examples clarify these points.

This is an ELA lesson planning template. It follows a gradual release framework. It was adapted from the ELA lesson plan template provided by NCDPI via the VIK.

Students will explore the Articles of Confederation and the Articles' influence in revising the Constitution of 1787. Students will experience the sentiments of Federalists and Anti Federalists by participating in a partner debate as either North Carolina Federalist James Iredell or Anti Federalist Willie Jones.

Students will be able to identify examples of figures of speech (such as but not limited to metaphor, simile, personification, irony, etc...) as they find examples in various texts.

This interactive lesson allows students the opportunity to fill in the blanks of a story with words created through a virtual flip of a chip. Students will use chips as tools for showing different affixes and roots that can be joined together to create words. The created words are inserted in a paragraph according to context clues. Students can work in pairs to create their own set of chips and corresponding paragraph. Students then exchange their packets to see whether the context clues are stong enough to enable classmates to fill in the blanks correctly.

The purpose of this roadmap is to align Ready Math to the NC Math Clusters and their related content standards.  It can be used as part of a data notebook for students to color in as they master each standard / lesson.  The roadmap is intended to generalize any learning playlists developed to go along with the standards. An example of the learning playlist for 3.NC.OA.1 has been uploaded to GoOpenNC.This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

A learning road map is a great way for students and teachers to keep track of standards they have mastered.  This road map is for grade 2 math cluster 2.  It can be printed and placed in a data notebook.  Students would then color in the circle to indicate their level of proficiency.  It could also be used digitally where students would fill in the circle with color.  Road Maps help students take ownership of their learning and help guide instruction for teachers.  This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant

A learning road map is a great way for students and teachers to keep track of standards they have mastered.  This road map is for grade 2 math cluster 3.  It can be printed and placed in a data notebook.  Students would then color in the circle to indicate their level of proficiency.  It could also be used digitally where students would fill in the circle with color.  Road Maps help students take ownership of their learning and help guide instruction for teachers.  This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

This content resource builds students' knowledge and conceptual understanding about plants through interactive activities, printable worksheets, and hands-on explorations. There are six investigation cases for students to complete; each case examines a different aspect of plant life, including plant structures, life cycles and reproduction, proper environmental conditions for growth, and ecological importance. Supplemental background information and a teacher's guide with suggestions for using the materials in the classroom are also provided. A Spanish version of the web site is available.

This is an introductory lesson for any unit/text on the Holocaust. Students will first gallery walk various pictures, terms, and quotes about the Holocaust to connect with any previous knowledge and engage curiosity. The second activity asks the students to watch the National Holocaust Museum's movie about the events leading to the Holocaust. Finally students look closely at a text about the events leading up to Holocaust.