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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building Background Knowledge

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...
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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: Number and Operations in Base Ten 5.nbt.7 Worksheets

For Teachers 5th Standards
Teachers can assess students' knowledge of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals to hundredths with these printable worksheets. You can even create your own worksheet or flashcards.
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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: Number and Operations in Base Ten 5.nbt.6 Worksheets

For Teachers 5th
Teachers can assess students' knowledge of how to perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths with these printable worksheets. You can even create your own learning exercise or flashcards.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Word Knowledge Through Informational Websites

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A lesson plan through which learners identify, understand and work with important vocabulary words found in an online article on biodiversity. Based on the "Ten Important Words Plus" strategy that teachers can employ as part of...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teach Vocabulary by Building Background Knowledge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students need to develop an extensive vocabulary to read with fluency. In turn, fluency in reading leads to increased comprehension. Fluency also comes from the written language of the reader since the student writes words he or she...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Mult. Equations and Comparison Statements [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Students will solve these word problems using knowledge of comparing equations. CCSS.Math.Content.4.OA.A.1 Interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison
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Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What the Heck Is That? Inferring the Purpose of an Object

For Teachers 5th Standards
For this lesson, 5th graders use their prior knowledge and inference skills to determine uses of unfamiliar objects. They participate in group discussions and analyze the key information they have in order to reach conclusions.
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Stormchaser

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Twig lives as a sky pirate alongside his famous father, Cloud Wolf, until the Stormchaser is damaged due to Twig's inexperience. A furious Cloud Wolf leaves Twig behind on their next quest for the sacred material stormphrax. Not knowing...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this task is to help students synthesize their knowledge of triangles where only two of the vertices have been given. They will need to know that a triangle inscribed in a circle, with a diameter of the circle as one side, is...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Equal Area Triangles on the Same Base Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task has students apply their knowledge of parallel lines to solve a geometric problem on areas of triangles. The task is open-ended in that students can choose their method of completing the task. Aligns with G-GPE.B.5.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Squares on a Coordinate Grid

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to use the Pythagorean Theorem and knowledge about quadrilaterals in order to construct squares of different sizes on a coordinate grid. Aligns with G-GPE.B.7.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community. Perhaps this is why the core standards...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Come Prepared for Discussions

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a collection of 14 discussion opportunities. Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp the Price of Bread

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this task is for students to calculate the percent increase and relative cost in a real-world context. This task is part of a set collaboratively developed with Money as You Learn, an initiative of the President's Advisory...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: Summarize

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Summarizing is a key skill needed in reading comprehension. This page describes how to summarize main ideas in a text. Click on Model button for a model with explanation and then click on Practice (Bottom Right)

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