What's in the Bag?
(View Complete Item Description)What's in the Bag? invites primary students to play with vocabulary common to their environment.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
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Writing Activities
(View Complete Item Description)FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Writing Activities, a page of activities to address important writing skills and strategies.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Highline Public Schools Kindergarten Word Study Guide
(View Complete Item Description)The intentional instruction you provide in foundational literacy skills within the context of a rich balanced literacy program will set students on a trajectory toward success in reading and writing. The purpose of this document is to give you the resources you need to teach kindergarten students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in this document are designed with that in mind. This guide includes routines with sample instructional language to use during lessons.
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Unit of Study
Highline Public Schools Second Grade Word Study Guide
(View Complete Item Description)The intentional instruction you provide in foundational literacy skills within the context of a rich balanced literacy program will set students on a trajectory toward success in reading and writing. The purpose of this document is to give you the resources you need to teach second grade students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in this document are designed with that in mind. This guide includes routines with sample instructional language to use during lessons.
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Module, Unit of Study
Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs
(View Complete Item Description)Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from "attack" to "zap", reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
(View Complete Item Description)Through a close reading of "Amelia Bedelia", students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Highline Public Schools First Grade Word Study Guide
(View Complete Item Description)The intentional instruction you provide in foundational literacy skills within the context of a rich balanced literacy program will set students on a trajectory toward success in reading and writing. The purpose of this document is to give you the resources you need to teach first grade students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in this document are designed with that in mind. This guide includes routines with sample instructional language to use during lessons
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Module, Unit of Study
From Scribbling to Writing: Smoothing the Way
(View Complete Item Description)Most kindergarten teachers become concerned when children's initial enthusiasm for writing does not result in improved writing ability. Current research about the process approach to writing suggests that children will make progress if they are provided the time, materials, information, and freedom needed to manipulate and invent meaningful written language.
Material Type: Reading
Remix
A-Z letter write and review
(View Complete Item Description)This packet includes letter formation and beginning sound practice. The pictures are easy to understand and common words used in the English language.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Story Map
(View Complete Item Description)The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
(View Complete Item Description)Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
1.NBT Number Square
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
2.MD How Big is a Foot?
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller * Masking tape * Enough 12-inch (one foot) rulers for every student or pair of students * One yardstick *...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
100th Day of School Activities
(View Complete Item Description)Resources to mark the 100th day of school with math activities. Challenge students to generate 100 different ways to represent the number 100. Students will easily generate 99 + 1 and 50 + 50, but encourage them to think out of the box. Challenge them to include examples from all of the NCTM Standards strands: number sense, numerical operations, geometry, measurement, algebra, patterns, data analysis, probability, discrete math, Create a class list to record the best entries. Some teachers write 100 in big bubble numeral style and then record the entries inside the numerals.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
How Would You Feel if you were a Colonist in the 1700's?
(View Complete Item Description)The Students Will learn about Colonial Times. They will learn about the people, their jobs, housing, food etc. After they read out the text book and watch some supplimental videos, They will write a paragraph in their own perspective if they were a colonist in the 1700's. They will answer questions like:-How would you feel?-What would be your Job? Where would you sleep?-How would your everyday routine go?And these questions do not limit them. They can be more ellabrate if they wish to be. The writing need to be detailed and well thought out. They should use what they learned in the classroom to help shape a fictional version of themselves in the 1700's as colonists.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Phonics-oriented Word Lists
(View Complete Item Description)A collection of word lists by syllable type and phonics pattern based on Orton-Gillingham organization of six syllable types.
Material Type: Reading
3-2-1
(View Complete Item Description)Contains tool overview and student examples
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Acrostic Poems
(View Complete Item Description)This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Building a Conclusion
(View Complete Item Description)In this seminar you learn how to communicate an effective conclusion for an informational form of writing with clarity and precision. You will learn the three key points that must be in your writing in order to effectively conclude your thoughts and ideas. You will make a comic book, read informational pieces that are also learning activities to enhance your social studies and science curriculum.StandardsC.C.1.4.4D Group related information in paragraphs and sections, linking ideas within categories of information using words and phrases; provide a concluding statement or section.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Graphic Organizers for Personal Narratives
(View Complete Item Description)This resource provides several options for organized pre-writing of narrative essays.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson