This is a great lesson plan to use to keep you on track. It includes what your principals/evaluators are looking for during observations, and even gives a section for you to reflect on your lesson. It can also be utilized by subs if written correctly.
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A template for planning minilessons that fit within a reading workshop model.
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Our ‘Local Read Aloud’ is a spin-off of The Global Read Aloud, created by Pernille Ripp. The idea is that we select one book to read aloud to our students over a span of six weeks. During our six weeks of reading we connect with other classrooms across the district and discuss, create, and connect with the book and our peers. We can use a variety of tools to connect, and take as much, or as little time as we’d like. The project is intended to be enjoyable and not stressful, and in my experience the students enjoy the read aloud component as much as the connections.
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This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.
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Students consider the connection between French and other cultures and languages by discussing key quotations from relevant Times articles and sharing their insights on the questions they raise.
In this lesson from Expeditionary Learning, students will imagine themselves in the role of the main characters of That Book Woman by Heather Henson. They will discover the motivations of the characters through role-playing and investigating the illustrations in the text. Students will use an informational text to investigate why it might be difficult to get books to people, as it was in That Book Woman. This is Lesson 1 of 17 from the Grade 3 Curriculum Map Unit 3, Module 1: http://engageny.org/resource/grade-3-ela-module-1-unit-3 .
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Vocabulary
Students will play the role of newspaper reporters in order to research, write, and publish an article about the history of the Star-Spangled Banner. This is connected with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.
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Students will read a passage, write answers to questions based on the passage, and write to explain and justify their position. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
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In this lesson, students write summaries at the end of each chapter of a novel to practice reading for main idea, relevant details, and the author's purpose and point of view.
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Studnets will view a brief video about a singular cultural event that occurred in the decade, in this case the 1990s, in the Unitd States and annotage the event for the who, what, where, when of the event and the impact of the event in 2019. Each day has a specific video that the students will view, and they will submit the completed packet on the last class of the week.
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3 x 3 Vocabulary Challenge Use within any subject Need a bank of at least 10 words from a similar subject. Students will put up to 5 words randomly in the 3x3 grid. Challenge: Make a sentence using each word in row 1. Challenge students to make sentences for each row and column in the 3x3 grid. Can be done collaboratively, or individual. Nice to mix it up!
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Vocabulary
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of lines, curves, vertices, and sides of 2d shapes.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
North Carolina experienced major flooding in 2018 due to Hurricane Florence. As a result there has been a huge increase in the amount and size of mosquitoes in our state. Mosquitoes are known for carrying diseases like Zika, Malaria, and West Nile. We must do something to help our community. Bats can be an answer to this problem. A single bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquito sized insects every hour and each bat can usually eat up to 6,000 to 8,000 insects per night. To help alleviate a massive amount of mosquitoes in our community we will build bat boxes and share them with our community.
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In this activity, students a poem with proper expression and intonation.
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This article provides an overview of how teachers can use bibliotherapy to help students deal with social, emotional, and behavioral issues.
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First grade students will work in small group settings to discover how to become an architectural engineer. They will research and demonstrate their knowledge of bridge designs through STEM and drawings. Finally developing a strong infrastructure that will collaboratively fit onto a created setting. Allowing them to present a model of their findings.
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This article describes some common misconceptions that elementary students may have about oceans. It also includes suggestions for formative assessment and teaching for conceptual change.
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In this lesson, students will use a popular children's song that contains several high-frequency vocabulary words to assist in recognizing, reading, writing, and using the words in several contexts. Students sing the song repeatedly, while following along with a picture book that contains the lyrics and illustrations. They are then encouraged to participate in several hands-on activities to reinforce learning of the vocabulary words.
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This lesson provides an introduction to geometric transformations -- reflections, rotations, translations, and glide reflections. The accompanying applet allows students to perform a transformation and then analyze the relationship between the original object and the resulting image. A discussion of various kinds of symmetry is included. A student worksheet, lesson extensions, and guided discussions are provided.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson Plan
Students will research an African American person based on set questions. The students will present their person in an interview format - Guess Who.
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