In this lesson, students will describe the characters, setting, and key details in "Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella" by Tomie de Paolaby. With guidance and support, students will record the details on a circle map.
In this BetterLesson, students will learn to focus on details as they analyze the story of Cendrillion.
It is very important to build a class community where all students feel valued and safe. This activity will do just that and you will address the Common Core speaking and listening standards. Students will get to know each by discussing what they've brought in their "Getting to Know You Bag". A letter template and video of the lesson in action are included.
Understand the connection between ratio, percents, and fractions.
Shadows are all around us. During this lesson, with teacher guidance, students will answer text dependent questions and draw conclusions about the book Bear Shadow.
Students will read the story and describe the picture details of the illustrations in relation to the text and write about one of the story events. "Go, Dog, Go!" contains illustrations that are very elaborate and crazy while the text is easy to read making this the perfect book for this lesson.
In this lesson, students will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video demonstration is included.
Students play a favorite card game which practices the quick and accurate recall of double facts.
Students use a familiar card game to help them build their math fact fluency for facts where the sum is 10.
Students read and create graphs based on Olympic data for 2014.
Students will practice retelling a story using a flow map. This lesson includes thorough directions, materials, and a video called Bear's Shadow.
As we expose our students to different ideas, it is important they see that not all words come from books- some of our best ideas come from conversations and things we see or do! A quick, easy and free way to help our students get exposure to rich language is to simply change the names of our classroom jobs. Included is a "Gold Collar Jobs Poster", and videos/pictures of the lesson in action.
Students will be able to compare objects and sort objects by color.
Students will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
Students will be able to read and write data on a graph.
Students graph the solutions of inequality on a number line and explain the solutions.
Students use their timed test scores to create a bar graph that compares their progress in learning math facts.
Students review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
Multiple graphs can represent the same data set and make the information easier to understand.
Creating their own building is a hands-on, minds-on way for students to explore how polygons create 3D solids.