Comparative Adjectives: Words that End in Y
(View Complete Item Description)Students write the comparative form for the adjectives shown.
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Reading Connected Text Fluency
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students read aloud a written sentence.
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Shades of Meaning Card Set
(View Complete Item Description)Students order word cards from weakest to strongest.
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14 Cows for America
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students listen to an illustrated read aloud and use literacy skills to understand the central message of the book.
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Comprehending Nonfiction-Previewing the Selection
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn how good readers preview a nonfiction book before they begin reading.
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Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
(View Complete Item Description)Students read two math-related books used in the lesson to give real-world contexts to the strategy of grouping objects to be counted. Students, then, explore their school and home environments to find and represent their own examples of sets. In the culminating activity, students create pages for a collaborative class book of sets.
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Pictures Have a Lot to Say
(View Complete Item Description)In this worksheet activity, students study the pictures of a pair of unusual animals and make some guesses about what they are, where they live, and what they eat.
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Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will read two traditional fairy tales and their Wild West versions. Students engage with the text by talking back to characters in Cinderella, dramatizing events in Bubba the Cowboy Prince, inserting themselves into the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and critiquing and controlling story elements in Little Red Cowboy Hat. After comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood and Little Red Cowboy Hat, students plan and create an original fractured tale.
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Fractured Fairy Tales Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students gain a deeper understanding of the fairy tale genre by reading fractured versions of familiar tales. Students will compare and contrast the fractured tales to the originals.
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Match the Suffix and Root
(View Complete Item Description)Students match the root word and the suffix from two banks to make new words.
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Past Tense Verbs: Words Ending in Y
(View Complete Item Description)Students follow the rule for changing words ending in 'y' to write the past tense form for the verbs given.
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American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, collaborative groups will read a variety of American tall tales, then report elements of their story to the whole class. Students add story information to a collaborative, whole-class character study matrix that summarizes all the stories. In a writing activity, students compare two characters of their choice. The lesson process is applicable to any set of related texts.
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Exploring Tessellations
(View Complete Item Description)Students will repeat patterns in two and three dimensions to create tessellations. This activity combines the creativity of an art project with the challenge of solving a puzzle. This lesson features three investigations that are appropriate for varying grades and levels.
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Introduce: Comparison and Contrast
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students compare and contrast two elements in a book.
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Long Vowel Combinations
(View Complete Item Description)This resource contains a lesson plan, word building board, picture cards and letter tiles, word letter pages, and three-in-a-row game to help students decode long vowels.
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3.MD How Heavy?
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
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3rd Grade: Measurement and Data: 3.MD.2
(View Complete Item Description)The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) videos are designed to support states, schools, and teachers in the implementation of selected math standards. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on one or more specific standards through examples and illustrations geared to enhancing understanding. The intent of each content-focused video is to clarify the meaning of the individual standard rather than to be a guide on how to teach each standard, although the examples can be adapted for instructional use.
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Area Shape Game
(View Complete Item Description)In this math game, students will explore the concept of covering a region with unit squares and score points for each correct response. Once they complete the round they can advance to the next level where they will multiply the length measurements to find the area of a rectangular region.
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Area of Irregular Polygon
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students look for break apart irregular polygons to make arrays to find the area of those common shapes.
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Design A Space Using Area Models-Day 1 and Day 2
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students use area models to find the total area of a store, home, or other real world space.
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