This Informational text focuses on the migration habits of the grasshopper/locust and the gray whale.
ŕJust Plain FancyĚŇ is the story of a young Amish girl, Naomi, who longs to have something fancy in her life. But when an she finds an unusual egg that hatches into a peacock, she ends up learning a valuable lesson about an acceptable and admired kind of fancy.
The K-2 Sample Schedules are sample schedules that outline advantages and considerations, to give leaders ideas about how to incorporate EL Education's K-2 Language Arts Curriculum (3 hours daily for Grades K-2) into a school schedule. Shows options for school days with 7, 6.5, and 6 hours of daily instruction. Also addresses significant modifications for a half-day kindergarten context.
This writing continuum was created by Kenaston School (Nicole Duley and Cindy Menzies). It has taken the writing outcomes for Grades K-8 and organized them in a scope and sequence. This can be used to track individual student progress through the outcomes and follow the student through the grades to support in the implementation of the PeBL philosophy and the creation of personalized goals.
Patricias Great-Grandmother comes to America as a child from Russia. She creates a quilt that is passed on from generation to generation. The quilt becomes an important symbol and is used in many of the familys traditional Jewish celebrations.
This comprehensive resource from Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division includes units of study plus curricular and assessment resources for Kindergarten Arts Education, ELA, Health Education, Physical Education, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. Look for rubrics, vocabulary lists, summarized outcomes, unit plans, sample year plans (and templates), Treaty Education outcomes and indicators as well lots of other teacher resources. Some of the information is not available as a login is required.
Create and present a variety of visual and multimedia presentations to best represent message for an intended audience and purpose.
Why were bison essential to people living on the plains, prior to the time of Treaty negotiations (1870s)? What does the bison represent today? This LIVE Arts broadcast features contemporary artwork and storytelling by Métis artist Leah Marie Dorion, based on her children's book, "Métis Camp Circle: A Bison Culture Way of Life." Leah reads from the book, discusses the importance of bison (past and present), explains the use of Métis symbolism and discuss the composition and design of the illustrations. Leah guides students through a live drawing activity where they learn to draw and paint a bison as inspired by Leah's particular style of creating and imagery.
This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text, "The Last Dragon." A young boy, Peter, is hesitant to spend the summer with his great aunt in Chinatown. Peter finds an aging parade dragon in a store and, in restoring it, learns to connect with the dragon and the Chinese community.
"Callysto is a free, multimodal learning program for grades 5-12 students in Canada. The program is part of a two-year pilot project by Cybera and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), who received funding from the federal government’s CanCode program to build and employ new technologies that promote digital literacy and help Canada’s youth develop the foundational skills required to become the future drivers of innovation."
Learning modules are available for Math, ELA, Science, Social, etc.
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Click GET STARTED to find the teacher starter kit and free full courses on computing science 10, AI, computational thinking, data science.
Each of you will be assigned a grade 6 and 8 partner with whom you will work with to create a storybook based on the legend of Jason and the Argonauts. Your story book must be intended for children so you will want to keep your language concise and clear while you tell the story. Requirements of your storybook are as follows:
- Front and back cover - 8-10 pages of story - Illustrations for each page - Complete retelling of the legend, including all steps of the heroic pattern
Find reading levels fast and digitally manage your library of books!
A great way to organize, level, and track your books!
Scan your book's ISBN to view the Lexile, Guided Reading,
Grade Level Equivalent, and/or DRA levels for the book.
We feature well liked books ranging from K-8 on a weekly basis here. Interested in high school level books? We have those in the app too!
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Depending on the reading level of your child, the book of the day will always be a great book for your child to read!
In this nonfiction story, readers learn how and why scientists brave the extreme conditions of both poles in order to do research that will help us learn more about our world
This site offers a reading and writing initiative that connects authors with readers.
Teachers can use this site to make reading and writing more relevant to their students. No matter the grade, LitPick could be a great fit for an independent reading activity. Students can read the reviews of books for free and can sign up as reviewers, request books that interest them to review, and then publish reviews as the culminating assessment. LitPick also supports a book group experience. In this model, an entire classroom can join LitPick as one group, and teachers can monitor the group from a dashboard. Students can all read and review the same book, or choose different ones. There's also an option to do video reviews, which might be good for older students as a way to extend learning beyond the written review.
For my artifact, I incorporated literature circles into the reading of the novel, Lord
of the Flies. The first step in this process was to introduce the roles to the students and
to explain what was expected of them. Then, I split the students into their groups of four
using a random group generator (groups can be adjusted based on numbers, but four
worked best in my class). Once students knew what was expected of them, they talked
with their group members to determine who was doing what role for the first two
chapters. From there, we would read two chapters and I would allow the students time
to complete their role sheet (I also encouraged them to do this as they were reading
along, especially for quotes and vocab) and then they would meet with their group to
share their role with the other members. As the teacher, I would circulate between the
groups while they were sharing to listen to them and to provide any input/clarifications.
We would then repeat this process after each two chapters (there are 12 chapters in
total in the novel).
Life in the Grunt tribe changes when a baby dinosaur hatches from the huge egg that Little Grunt drags home for brunch.
Two students hide in the bathroom in order to avoid taking the math test, eventually telling their teacher they were trapped yb a giant squid. While waiting to speak to the principal, they go in to the lost and found, where they enter an imaginary world hidden in the lost and found bin.
Plan and deliver effective Reading Comprehension mini-lessons with this downloadable PDF that outlines the lesson in a 4-step lesson architecture:
- Step l: INTRODUCTION: You (re)introduce the skill.
- Step 2: INSTRUCTION: You explain and demonstrate the skill.
- Step 3: INTERACTION: They experience the skill.
- Step 4: CLOSURE: You crystallize the skill.
Use the template to create effective reading comprehension mini-lessons in your classroom today!
The link offers information about how to purchase "The Comprehension Playbook" for various grade levels.
This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions and Common Core literacy strategies to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary using the text, "Marven of the Great North Woods." To keep their only son, Marven, safe from the influenza epidemic, Marven's parents decide to send their ten year old Jewish son far away to a logging camp filled with French Canadian lumberjacks. He copes with language and cultural differences while he learns his bookkeeping job and makes a wonderful friend.
Moon Journals are a project that I begin in September with the students. We use a variety of
activities in conjunction with our journals (poetry, short stories, Apollo Mission research, etc).
Students begin by creating a journal which they will take home with them and record their
observations on a nightly basis. The purpose of the journals is to increase/improve writing skills,
especially in the area of descriptive writing.