This resource, which is a direct download, is a lesson plan for "Aero and Office Mike" by Joan Plummer Russell. "Aero and Officer Mike is an informational text about a police officer and his partner, a dog named Aero. Information about their daily routine, Aero's special talents, and Officer Mike's training is included.

In this lesson, students read Aunt Flossie's Hats to learn about family traditions and stories and how they keep families united across generations. Students discuss the text and respond to questions using the text to support their answers. Lesson opens to a Word document.

The Basic Speller is a spelling program for beginning students and consists of eight volumes of 48 lessons each. It presents lessons and practice for learning the relationships between sounds and their spellings.

The Basic Speller is a spelling program for beginning students and consists of eight volumes of 48 lessons each. It presents lessons and practice for learning the relationships between sounds and their spellings.

Students cut apart provided words. Teacher guides students to group similar words together. If necessary, teacher prompts with "Notice how the words look" and/or "Notice how the words sound."

The purpose of the sort is NOT to teach "rules" regarding what sounds these letter combinations make. Instead, it is to build confidence in recognizing some common, yet difficult combinations when reading words and also spelling words with this sound in it.

For an extension, students could also create subgroups by sorting according to where the letter combination is found in the word-at the beginning, middle, or end.

It is suggested that an anchor word for each combination be added to a resource such as a word wall or word study notebook for future reference.

For assessment, students could sort and glue into the groups, read the list of words from the sort, or spell the words from the sort.

As a way to support teachers with English Language Arts (ELA) instruction during the pandemic, the NCDPI ELA team created choice boards featuring standards-aligned ELA activities.The intended purpose of these choice boards is to provide a way for students to continue standards-based learning while schools are closed. Each activity can be adapted and modified to be completed with or without the use of digital tools. Many activities can also be repeated with different texts. These standards-based activities are meant to be a low-stress approach to reinforcing and enriching the skills learned during the 2019-2020 school year. The choice boards are to be used flexibly by teachers, parents, and students in order to meet the unique needs of each learner.Exploration activities are provided for a more self-directed or guided approach to independent learning for students. These activities and sites should be used as a way to explore concepts, topics, skills, and social and emotional competencies that interest the learner. 

For this task, students demonstrate their understanding of the convention of punctuation in written compositions.

The students will create a persuasive letter to the school administration asking/persuading them to help raise money for Water for South Sudan. This lesson was developed by Margaret Derrick as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this module, students consider the guiding question: How do writers capture a reader's imagination? as they take a deep study of the classic tale Peter Pan.

Students will read a description and examples of how to use question marks in relation to quotation marks. Students will then rewrite sentences in order to correctly place the question marks. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource contains an example of a how one teacher turned her students into Comma Kings and Queens instead of Nate the Neglectful when it came to comma usage.

This is a lesson for teaching contractions using literature. Students will create an anchor chart and compare it to S. Rouse's digital anchor chart to expand their knowledge of common contractions. This lesson can be used as a differentiation for advanced 2nd grade students. It was written for 3rd grade students participating in Writer's Workshop ELA block. Feel free to add on, customize for your needs. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade ELA.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 3rd Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade English Language Arts. 

In this lesson, students learn the Spelling in Parts (SIP) strategy by dividing a polysyllabic word into parts, thinking about spelling patterns of each part, saying each part, and spelling each part. Students also learn to demonstrate the transfer of SIP by explaining how they spell or decode big words when reading or writing.