Links to 31 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.5: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance to development of main ideas or themes.
Links to 6 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.6: Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small group discussion); use formal English when appropriate to task and situation.
Today, this common student answer will be the accepted one as students try to find different ways to fill in a hexagon.
This is a practice lesson designed to excite sports fans in a unit about determining who is speaking in a story. The students practice this specific skill as the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and labeling who is talking in the guided practice and partner work. Included are videos of the lesson in action.
The students will be working in centers to review for their test. The centers will consist of a computer rotation, versa-tiles, and a teacher center. All centers will reinforce concepts learned throughout this unit to prepare them for their assessment.
Students will engage in a lesson that teaches them to associate certain expressions and words with specific feelings. Included are a senses powerpoint, a model of a graphic organizer, and a video and picture of the students engaged in the lesson.
Students will learn how to enhance their narrative writing by incorporating sensory details to convey experiences and events. A power point presentation on sensory details is included.
Today students practice close reading as they look for evidence in the story so they can sequence the events for the beginning, middle, and end.
Multiplication sounds cool to second graders, but we have to know what it is first. Creating and counting sets is one way to get there.
Many kindergarteners come to school with rote counting skills, but they often do not understand that the numbers they can recite actually represent quantities. This lesson helps to make that connection.
Shadows are all around us.Students will use reading comprehension strategies to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Make every moment count! Utilize a brain break to learn shades of meaning among verbs at the same time! Included in this lesson is a video of the activity, a reference chart, and a list of fun verbs to act out.
Kindergartners love making things, and this activity allows them to create a unique shape monster and practice numbers recording the shapes used.
Students need to share their understandings of lines, line segments, shapes and attributes.
Students learn to generate ideas with a clear focus in response to questions while participating in a shared inquiry discussion. Included are shared inquiry guidelines, and tips on discussing fiction and non-fiction books using this method.
What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding?
In this lesson, through guided practice, the students use two texts about Martin Luther King to compare the similarities and differences between those texts. Includes videos of the lesson in action, printable charts, and a graphic organizer.
Students will be able to design and conduct their own simulation to determine the probability of an event.
The Common Core Standard L.1.1.c states that the students will use singular and plural nouns in sentences with matching verbs. Students will do this in writing and speaking. This lesson allows students to write and tell the class sentences using the correct verb tense. Pictures and videos of the lesson in action are provided.
Many kindergarteners come to school with rote counting skills, but they often do not understand that the numbers they can recite actually represent quantities. This lesson helps to make that connection.