Putting the Pieces Together
Students will use what they have learned about text features and the Answer—Cite—Explain (ACE) strategy, to infer meaning from nonfiction text.
Retell Cafe
The lesson requires students to retell events of fictional stories in a logical order. Students work independently and in cooperative groups using manipulatives and a hands-on approach to sequence events in a story.
A Case of Character Traits
In literacy stations, students will describe how Camilla Cream’s internal and external character traits, motivations, and feelings changed throughout the fictional text, A Bad Case of Stripes.
Too Hot for Main Idea
Students will collaborate and examine a reading passage to determine the topic and main idea of the passage.
Teacher Introducing Lesson
Shop 'til You Drop
Students will identify the value of coins and determine the total value of a group of coins to select items to purchase from a given list.
Students working in group
Mi Queso Es Su Queso
Students will work collaboratively and individually to apply their knowledge of place value and base 10 blocks to solve the traditional algorithm.
Teacher Introducing Lesson
Vocabulary Detectives
Students will be actively engaged in working on a Frayer Model to determine the definition of a vocabulary word, using the word in the correct context in a sentence, drawing an illustration of the word, and providing non-examples of the word. Through this activity they will be thinking critically, collaborating, as well as monitoring their own learning, as they are modeling their own understanding of an unfamiliar vocabulary word.
Composing and Decomposing 3- and 4-Digit Numbers
Using hands-on and interactive activities, students will use concrete and abstract models to compose, decompose, solve, and justify solutions to problems involving three- and four-digit numbers.
Ravaged Robot
Students will learn the concept of area by building a robot using manipulatives and transferring the representation onto grid paper. Then, students will determine the area of each designated body part on their think sheet.
Students working on the project
Who is My Neighbor?
Students will make inferences using evidence gathered from a collection of objects and a text.
Teacher going through description of inferring
Can You Prove It Detective?
In this lesson, the students will locate facts that are stated in a nonfiction text. The students will also learn how to locate facts within a fictional text.
Retell Me Something Good!
Using previous knowledge of the story elements: characters, setting, problem, and solution, students will determine the key events of a story and logically sequence those events in order to create a retelling.
Teacher working with students
Shapin’ Up Our Conversation!
In this lesson, students will classify and sort two-dimensional shapes based on given attributes using mathematical language in more than one way. They will view their peers’ sorting of shapes based on attributes and provide feedback to peers.
Christmas Gift Surprise
Students will try to infer what an object inside a bag is by feeling and by listing descriptive details and thoughts related to their schema on a recording document.
Students feel object in the bag in order to guess what is inside.