Additional Classroom Tips for Content Area Teachers of Newcomers
(View Complete Item Description)A list of tips for content teachers with beginning English learners in their classroom.
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A list of tips for content teachers with beginning English learners in their classroom.
Material Type: Reference Material
A list of tips for content teachers with beginning English learners in their classroom.
Material Type: Reference Material
9 formative assessment strategies that will help teachers assess student learning as well as promote student communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. Ideas sourced from ASCD annual conference presentation.
Material Type: Formative Assessment
Christine D'Aquanni with Be GLAD® presented strategies at ASCD Annual Conference 2021 in a session called Be GLAD®: Strategies for Creating a Community of Collaborative Learners. The Narrative Input Chart is one strategy for making content comprehensible, particularly to support English Learners reading to understand sequence of events with key details. These slides were created as just one resource to support a reading of The Water Princess by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds.
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Using Project GLAD strategies, students will be able to analyze the foundations and development of American government in terms of principles and values.
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This Unit is an 11th Grade Unit. It explains how the tensions over power and authority led America’s founding fathers to develop a constitutional democracy.
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This unit explores the way in which historical events have shaped American history.
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This unit on digital citizenship helps students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world and motivates students to act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical.
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This 5th-grade Science Unit on Ecosystems helps students compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands) and it helps students classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors).
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This is unit utilizes Historical Fiction and Nonfiction text to address standards such as determining a theme; providing a summary; Describing how the plot unfolds as well as the character’s response; and explaining how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
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This is a project glad unit for Kindergarten. This unit addresses identifying characters, settings, and major events in a story and support the retell of familiar stories,
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This is a 5th grade unit for Science. This unit helps students develop their understanding of force, motion, and the relationship between them as well as how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects.
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This Unit has been adapted for DL classes (Eng/Spa). This is a kindergarten Unit.
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This math unit teaches students to classify quadrilaterals into categories based on their properties; classify quadrilaterals in a hierarchy based on properties. This unit helps to explain that attributes belonging to a category of quadrilaterals also belong to all subcategories of that category.
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This is a Social Studies Unit for first grade. This unit explains the various ways the physical environment impacts people in different regions around the world.
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A look at how different environments affects how people live, work and play.
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This Project GLAD unit will address human body systems and their interactions. It is an integrated science and ELA unit for 5th grade. Students will know major body systems, their parts, and how those systems work together in the human body.
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This is a Social Studies Unit for 1st Grade. It supports students' comprehension of why national holidays are celebrated (Constitution Day, Independence Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Day, Presidents’ Day, etc.)
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This Kindergarten Science Unit supports students understanding of how to classify objects by observable physical properties as well as how to c ompare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Unit of Study