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Letter Writing |
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Mathematics,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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2 |
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Transforming the classroom into a post office. Students write letters to their parents, address envelopes, and rotate between various jobs, which include postmarking envelopes and delivering mail. This activity ties in with the California Content writing, math, and social studies standards. ... |
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Title: |
Macaroni Quotations |
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English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
2,3 |
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Description: |
After practicing quotations for about a week, this is our closing lesson. Using various types of macaroni the students write sentences on a small white board and use the macaroni as quotation marks and ending punctuation. Elbow macaroni is used for the beginning quotes, ending quotes, and the commas. Regular small macaroni is used for the periods. "Swirly" macaroni is used for question marks. Spaghetti macaroni (broken into smaller pieces) is used for exclamation marks. This is a nice hand on activity to show understanding and the kids love it!... |
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Title: |
Modes of Transportation |
| Subject: |
English Language Development |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
Students will be able to use topic specific vocabulary to identify a variety of vehicles. They will then write complete sentences to compare and contrast transportation vehicles... |
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Title: |
Using Technology for Research |
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Writing Workshop |
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Grade: |
1,2,3,4,5 |
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Description: |
Studens will learn how to use the internet to gather information for researching topics and/or authors for Writing Workshop. This lesson can be used for various genres in the Writing Workshop program.... |
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Title: |
Math Intervention |
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Mathematics |
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Grade: |
1,2,3,4,5 |
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Description: |
Students use an on-line program for reteaching, practicing, and testing for competence. This lesson is used by the resource department in a pull out program to help students be more successful in the general ed classroom.... |
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Title: |
e-readers - Improving fluency |
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English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
E-readers are combined with an online leveled library to improve fluency. This increases access to available material and allows the online library to be used in a small group teacher directed environment. It also provides portability of online reading material. Students will be able to read selections from their e-readers to students in other classrooms.... |
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Title: |
E-readers-Improving Comprehension |
| Subject: |
English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
This lesson combines the use of an e-reader and an online leveled reading library and moving it to a small group instruction environment. This greatly increases the access the teacher and students have to nonfiction reading material. This lesson is an example of a small group lesson using e-readers to help organize facts to develop better comprehension.... |
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Title: |
nonfiction writing assignment |
| Subject: |
writing |
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Grade: |
2-3 |
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Description: |
Students will research a nonfiction book, take notes on index cards, organize the notes, write a rough draft, edit, and produce a final copy.... |
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Title: |
Money, Money |
| Subject: |
Mathematics |
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Grade: |
1,2 |
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Description: |
Students will practice counting money using coins and grocery store ads... |
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Title: |
More or Less |
| Subject: |
Mathematics,English Language Development |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
The students will be able to define and explain the terms greater than, less than, and equal to. In addition the students will be able to accurately match each term with its corresponding symbolic representation (>, <, =). The students will be able to order and compare three and four digit numbers using >, <, and/or equal to. The students will also be able to determine place values using words, models and expanded form. ... |
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Title: |
Silkworms |
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Science |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
Student will keep track of the life cycle of the silk worm, Students will write in a journal and track the development of the silkworm from the egg to larva to coccoon to moth. They will each have about 10 silkworms to care for. They will also learn about the history of the silkworm in China.... |
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Title: |
Heritage Glogster |
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History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
Each student will first collect information, details and photos that tell about their heritage and ancestry. Where did their parents come from? What part of their parents' and grandparents' culture are still part of their lives today? Traditions: food, dress, language...
Once the information is collected, each student will compile it into a Glogster, adding photos, videos of interviews of relatives, maps, clip art and 'writing.'... |
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Title: |
Learning to Blog |
| Subject: |
English Language Arts,Technology |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
Students will be asked to blog on our class social studies website. This lesson serves as a scaffold to help the students learn how to blog. The importance of planning and editing written work and writing for a "global audience" will be discussed.... |
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