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Common Core W.3.2 lessons for Microsoft Word
Using "Two Truths and a Lie" to Find Fake News and Guide Quick Research
Students need to be wise readers - to find main ideas of a text, but also discern if the information is fact or "fake news." Once you have a copy of the book, this packet gives everything you'll need for a fun and engaging unit - including a fun game to build community, detailed lesson plans for 6-7 25 minute sessions, extension worksheets, an editing checklist and a model of a completed project. Using the unique format from the book, students will complete quick research projects on a topic o
Friendly Letter Unit Superhero Style
Friendly Letter Unit: Children love superheroes so what better way to engage them in writing than with a Friendly Letter Superhero? In this customizable friendly letter unit, Letterman comes to visit each day, bringing a letter that teaches a specific friendly letter skill. He leaves colorful L's on the classroom door to signal his visits. Children truly believe in him and even your most reluctant learners will get excited about writing!
This 66 page friendly letter unit includes:
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1st - 3rd
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GATE Writing with "PUZZLING" Grids - 2 Lessons and Bonus
Get your highly visual 21st Century GATE Learners up and moving around the classroom, testing their logic, and challenging their descriptive and explanatory writing skills with these two puzzling writing lessons. As always, you’ll extend the Common Core with your GATE group, adding challenge, creativity, critical thinking skills, and fun (!) to the regular classroom curriculum.
This bundle consists of 2 GATE writing lessons which will require around 5 hours of class time . . . plus a fun bonus
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Writing Lesson on Descriptive Writing rubric and graphic included
This writing lesson contains all necessary resources. It is an ideal lesson for a substitute teacher to use or for a class that had to stay inside due to unpleasant weather. The graphic was provided by Figma.com.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Nutrition Nonfiction Reading Passages and Questions Word 2nd 3rd Grade |Set2
Use these enjoyable nutrition nonfiction reading passages to bolster your test prep resources. Editable Word files contain CCSS aligned comprehension questions and fun topics. Titles Include:Proteins, Carbohydrates, Fats, Milk, Potatoes, Composting.Reading Comprehension Outline:Each lesson has a mix of questions to check understanding, a vocabulary or spelling activity to help remember key language introduced, and a writing exercise. Passages are high interest and contain vivid graphics. Full an
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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3rd Grade Informational Writing Lesson Plan- Week 1
Eliminate planning for hours with this very successful teacher friendly product. A one week informational writing lesson plan. Week one covers preplanning and drafting. Each day includes standards, criteria, vocabulary, direct instruction, guided practice, independent activity, HOTS, differentiated groups, instructional strategies, and closing. Anchor charts and organizers are included. Students will learn how to ask and answer questions during research. They will use an organizer to guide and
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Informational Writing Lesson Plans- Week 2
Eliminate planning for hours with this very successful teacher friendly product. A one week informational writing lesson plan. Week two covers organizing and revising. Each day includes standards, criteria, vocabulary, direct instruction, guided practice, independent activity, HOTS, differentiated groups, instructional strategies, and closing. Anchor charts and organizers are included. Students will learn how to use an organizer to draft their writing and how to use a checklist/rubric. They will
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2nd - 4th
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3rd Grade Ready Gen Module B Informational Writing Lesson Plan #2
*********2015/2016 Edition***********This is lesson #2 for the Informative/Explanatory Unit from Ready Gen. ***Please note Ready Gen was only used as a guide. I did not follow Ready Gen teacher's guide for the writing lessons. Instead, I used a variety of internet sources and my own experiences to create the unit. Occasionally, the differentiation will have the students use the RWJ and the text selections will be used as a reference. The end result of this unit will be an informational article o
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3rd
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Lewis and Clark Unit
Students will learn the value of exploring through the examples set forth by Lewis and Clark. This unit is mapped out for a 2 week unit for 3rd grade, but can be utilized in many flexible ways to cater to several, if not all, elementary grades. Students will look into map making, travel preparation, journal writing, performance skills, and visual thinking strategies. Students will develop a better understanding of America in the early 19th century and receiving explorer badges for their accompli
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Problem Solving & Creativity: Solving a Real Problem - Informational Text
REAL PROBLEM SOLVING
******MANY USABLE FORMS******
INCLUDES: step by step directions for problem solving, RUBRICS, SUMMARY & REFLECTION pages, evaluation FORMS, evaluation MATRIX for idea generation
Bears in Our Neighborhood->--> CAN BE ADAPTED TO OTHER REAL "LOCAL" PROBLEMS
Valdez, Alaska is a rural town located in Prince William Sound. Every year, the summer population nearly doubles in size due to tourism and the fishing season. People - from many different parts of the globe, - v
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3rd - 5th
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Writing Lesson Using the Bear Report by Thyra Heder Lesson by Lisa Connors
In this reading and writing lesson students will understand how knowing more about a subject matter creates enthusiasm for a project. Geared for 3rd-5th grade, the lesson can be used as a stand-alone, guided reading lesson or the whole lesson plan can be used to extend the reading into an animal research project. This lesson includes a prereading activity, research and prewriting organizers and a rubric. This lesson hopes to instill an interest in research in even the most reluctant students
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Three 3 Paragraph Graphic Organizer Expository
Three paragraph graphic organizer for expository writing. Color coded and scaffolded.
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Conclusion Paragraph Design
This document has really helped my students design an effective closing to their expository pieces.
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Close Reading Lesson Plan: Sarah, Plain and Tall Chapter 1
This close reading lesson plan is an excerpt from chapter 1 of Sarah, Plain and Tall. It is the 1st of 3 close reading lessons to be used throughout this book. I'll post the other two lessons soon. It is assumed that your students will be reading the entire book from chapter 1 to the end, but that you will just stop at the excerpts used in the close reading lessons to do a close read. Each of the 3 lessons is detailed for the 1st reading (students read to discover what the text says explicitly a
Grades:
2nd - 5th
The Hero in Me - Teach character education with common core
A packet for teaching about positive behavior, bullying, making good friends, and being yourself that is aligned to the common core state standards in the areas of reading and writing. This packet will allow you to teach important life skills but will not take away from the standards that need to be taught. Included in the packet; reading comprehension, caracter comparisons, writing in organizational features, and vocabulary.
Graphic Organizers are included in the areas of compare/contrast, prob
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
UTEC: Essay Writing as a Genre
UTEC: Essay Writing as a Genre UTEC is an acronym and tool that I developed in 2009 to help my students to organize their ideas and to expand upon them to fill a page or paragraph. The process of using UTEC as a district or grade-level team allows students to have a structure to remind them of the components of quality writing. This approach to test prep, quality paragraph, and essay writing fits into the genre model that students are already familiar with through their Language Arts and Reading
Forces and Interactions Unit
Forces and Interaction Integrated Unit PlanThis is a 1 to 2-week unit aligned with Forces and Interaction NGSS 3rd grade standards and CCSS 3rd Grade Reading & Writing standards. Format of Unit:* 3 Concepts (Balanced/Unbalanced Forces, Friction, and Electricity) Each concept includes: informational passage, note-taking chart, informational-text based questions, essay-based question, hands-on partner activity, and "brain time" activity (a series of internet-based activities and/or videos.*
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3rd
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NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
45 Literacy Lessons Using the Newspaper
These lessons are short, sweet, but effective! I have used these as mini-lessons as well as printed individually for station work.
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2nd - 5th
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Small Group Writing Lesson: Explanatory/How-To/Procedural Writing
Explanatory writing is so fun to teach! Engage your students in composing easy-to-follow explanatory texts. This lesson begins with a pre-assessment and student self-evaluation to highlight the importance of explanatory text features, such as numbered steps, sequence words, second-person POV, and clear language. This lesson also includes the following effective teaching practices:- opportunity for student self-evaluation and peer-evaluation- the use of a mentor text to model a writing strategy-
Reading Informational Text - How to Refurbish a Classic Car Lesson Plan
This is the reading/writing component of the expository power point presentation. Objectives: Upon completion of this reading and writing section of the unit, students will: 1. be able to read informational text with understanding; 2. be able to place events in order of occurrence; 3. be able to apply proper definitions from a dictionary to text vocabulary words; 4. be able to apply critical thinking skills to answer open ended questions in short paragraphs.
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1st - 3rd
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3rd Grade Module 3 Lesson 12 Paragraph Organizer Wit and Wisdom
Don't like W&W's M3L12 organizer?This has a different box broken up for each sentence needed. Since the "background" section is new in the introduction, it has a sentence stem included.Also needed for Lessons 13 and 14!
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Grades:
3rd
3rd Grade Ready Gen Module B Informational Writing Lesson Plan #6
*********2015/2016 Edition***********This is lesson #6 for the Informative/Explanatory Unit from Ready Gen. ***Please note Ready Gen was only used as a guide. I did not follow Ready Gen teacher's guide for the writing lessons. Instead, I used a variety of internet sources and my own experiences to create the unit. Occasionally, the differentiation will have the students use the RWJ and the text selections will be used as a reference. The end result of this unit will be an informational article o
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3rd
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NYCDOE Passport to S.S. Grade 3 Unit: People’s Republic of China Lesson #11
This is a Grade 3 complete and detailed lesson plan covering all of the components from the NYCDOE Passport Social Studies Program. In addition, I have added; student learning targets, vocabulary preview, additional questioning, and ENL/IEP support. Unit: People’s Republic of China Case Study Lesson #11
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3rd
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Also included in: Passport S.S. Grade 3 Unit Plan & ALL 14 Lesson Plans Unit: China
3rd Grade EngageNY ELA Module2A Unit3 End of Module Assessment: Tiered Lesson
This End of Module on-demand writing assessment is tiered for learners based on their level of understanding the 3.W.7 standard of conducting a research project that builds on prior knowledge. This resource scaffolds the assessment for learners who are minimally proficient with the inability to write a paragrpah on their own, all the way up to students who are highly proficient in the skill of writing a research-based narrative text, in addition to extension activities and "challenges."
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3rd
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