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Better Lesson: Go Away Shadow!
Shadows are all around us. During this instructional activity, with teacher guidance, students will answer text dependent questions and draw conclusions about the book Bear Shadow.
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Better Lesson: Roll a Question
Roll cubes to make answering questions. It's an exciting and engaging lesson.
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Better Lesson: Sequencing With "A Big Fish for Max"
Today students practice close reading as they look for evidence in the story so they can sequence the events for the beginning, middle, and end.
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Better Lesson: Writing a Simple Book Report With Your Listening Center
You probably have a listening center in your room. This lesson shows your students how to describe the characters and setting in a story after they've listened to the story on tape.
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Better Lesson: Questioning Text
Creating a product and illustrations make this lesson great for teaching about questioning. Students will ask and answer questions about a text via the assistance of a graphic organizer.
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Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Back
First graders tell what is happening in the story, but use words and phrases from the story to tell how they know.
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Better Lesson: "Sticky Note Reading" the Art of Questioning While Reading
Third graders will learn the importance questioning has on comprehension of a text. Students will use sticky notes and an interactive reading notebook while working with an informational text.
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Better Lesson: Questioning Text
Creating a product and illustrations make this instructional activity great for teaching about questioning.
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Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Missing Key Details
Where did Miss Nelson go? We look at the key details in the text to determine what is happening throughout the story.
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Better Lesson: Cheerful Shoppers
Second graders love to shop! Students will use their own shopping list to compose a word problem using addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, in order to help them better understand how to problem solve.
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Better Lesson: Using a Coordinate Grid (Day 1)
The students will be learning about the coordinate grid through the use of multiple learning styles and real life examples.
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Better Lesson: Understanding Tape Diagrams
Using a tape diagram is one of the key models for ratios and proportions.
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Better Lesson: The Double Number Line
The double number line will help students figure out problems that involve two quantities.
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Better Lesson: Using a Ratio Table
The ratio table is a tool that students can use to solve a variety of problems.
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Better Lesson: Introducing the Number Line
The number line is a tool 6th grade students will need throughout the year and this activity will allow students to explore and become familiar with it.
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Better Lesson: Places Everyone. Analyzing and Creating Stem and Leaf Plots
The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about stem and leaf plots.
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Better Lesson: Making Equivalent Ratios!
Making equivalent ratios using multiple representations.
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Better Lesson: Writing Ratios the Right Way!
Sixth graders will write ratios using a variety of formats.
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Better Lesson: Introduction to Solving Equations
Sixth graders work with the concept of equality and balance to solve one and two-step algebraic equations.
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Better Lesson: Working With Expressions and Equations Part 3
Sixth graders use their knowledge of algebraic expressions and equations to write expressions and equations.
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Better Lesson: Working With Expressions and Equations Part 2
Sixth graders use substitution to find the values of equations and expressions they wrote using appropriate math symbols.
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Better Lesson: Working With Expressions and Equations Part 1
Sixth graders use their knowledge of algebraic expressions and equations to write expressions and equations using appropriate math symbols.
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Better Lesson: Translating Algebraic Expressions and Equations
Sixth graders will translate between the written form and algebraic form using correct mathematical notation.
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Better Lesson: Make Mine Metric!
The students will be working on a hands-on exploration of the metric system where the scholars will be developing their own benchmarks to navigate through choosing the best unit of measurement.