The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...

It takes a lot of math to build an Igloo. Can you help Kirima? Students will learn to select and apply appropriate mental, written or calculator strategies to solve addition problems.

Smart Exchange is an online community that teachers can share resources. This SMART Notebook file is a great introduction to what fact families are and how 3 numbers can be related to one another. This fact house offers activities to...

Kodi the sled dog needs your help. Can you help him count?

In this exercise, students practice addition using groups of 10 and 100. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints, watch a video tutorial, and try questions repeatedly. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.2...

Practice breaking apart big addition problems using place value. For example, 234+567 is the same as 200+500+30+60+4+7. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...

Contains plans for three lessons about asking the right questions while reading. After the teacher explains the difference between factual and inferential questions, learners practice using them in small-group guided reading. In addition...

Contains plans for three lessons that teach a reading comprehension technique called the prediction strategy, where students predict what will happen in a story before reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...

Practice telling which strategies work for adding two numbers within 100. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Strategies for basic addition and multiplication are explained here and there are several practice worksheets that can be downloaded.

Demonstrates a method for easily adding long vertical columns of numbers. Includes two sample problems to try.

The purpose of this task is to support students in developing an understanding of a place value strategy for adding numbers. By using a representation to visualize the abstract notation, students will make sense of the strategy, adding...

This learning games focuses on addition and subtraction by filling in the missing number. At the end children can use the arrows on the computer to work a boy through a maze.

On this interactive site students practice addition and subtraction skills. At the end of the lesson students will be able to solve addition problems using a formal written algorithm and use various strategies to solve unfamiliar problems.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in addition and subtraction within 1000 with word problems to 100.

An extensive selection of teacher resources to aide in teaching and reviewing addition and subtraction of two and three digit numbers, inverse operations, counting on, and other mental strategies for addition and subtraction. Resources...

Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

In this lesson, students will relate counting to addition and subtraction and will learn several strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems.

Writing enables students to process, organize, formulate, and extend their thinking about what they have been learning. In addition, teachers can also assign writing to help students evaluate what they know and understand about a topic....

Break down numbers as a strategy to multiply one-digit by three-digit numbers and two-digit by two-digit numbers.

Contains plans for a lesson plan that will provide students with strategies for spelling unfamiliar words. Students are asked to use phonological awareness and visual recall, analyze alternative spellings, and use a variety of resources...

The purpose of this task is to promote certain addition strategies that will help students learn to fluently add and subtract within 20. Students will use a number line or magnetic cubes to solve addition problems. Students will be asked...

Contains plans for two lessons about circular stories like those of Laura Joffe Numeroff, who is known for the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Students read stories with circular plots as models before composing their own. In...

Contains plans for a lesson about predicting the outcomes of stories based off their first lines. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...