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Loving to Read While Learning to Express!
Young scholars practice recognizing words more accurately, rapidly and automatically by assessing five major techniques and strategies: reading faster, reading with expression, reading smoother, reading silently, and reading voluntarily....
Think Like A Programmer! Puzzlets Cork the Volcano Curriculum
Common Core Standards Connected
The standards listed below are standards from the Common Core Framework which map to learning opportunities with Cork The Volcano & Puzzlets.
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Scoring a Goal with Fluency!
Students practice a variety of strategies to become fluent readers with expression. They master the ability to read quickly and accurately and focus on decoding individual words to achieve automatic word recognition, as well as, develop...
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If Paintings Could Talk: Art and Language
Middle schoolers learn about the artist Canaletto, play a vocabulary game, and create a landscape using collage technique. Background information on the artist is provided along with instructions for the game and vocabulary words to...
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An Electronic Self-Portrait Lesson Plan - A Unit for Middle School
Using a photo of themselves for inspiration, learners create a multi-media self-portrait. A digital image of each child is taken, it is uploaded into the computer where is can be experimented with in a digital format. Young artists then...
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My Name Is...
First graders write four simple sentences about themselves. In this simple sentences lesson plan, learners insert a picture of themselves into Microsoft Word. Everyone writes four simple sentences about themselves. These pictures and...
Museum of the American Revolution
Image Analysis: In Their Own Words
Images often convey more than words. Scholars examine political cartoons from the American Revolution to understand how images have the ability to express political ideas. Academics participate in group discussion, complete a worksheet,...
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Shape Collages
To reinforce shape recognition and identification, little learners create a shape collage. They name each shape as they go, gluing or pasting them onto bright paper. They discuss collage techniques and are encouraged to use their shapes...
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Feelings
Can your beginning Spanish class express their feelings? Provide them with this practice opportunity to test both their vocabulary development and their ability to conjugate the verb according to the subject used. Great practice!...
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Math Mammoth End of the Year Test - Grade 3
In this comprehensive diagnostic test worksheet, learners examine, study, calculate and solve 38 math problems. They work with a variety of basic math concepts and word problems.
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The Little Children That Can: Growing Independence and Fluency
Get ready to boost fluency in the classroom with this lesson geared toward elementary readers. Listening to the first half of The Little Engine That Could, learners focus on how voice changes create expression. They then...
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Truly Amazing Mammals
Explore the world of amazing mammals with your kids with special needs. Each child identifies one mammal from a previous lesson and writes a short paragraph on that mammal. This lesson states that it is intended for all levels, but not...
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IF Statements using QBASIC
Students explore how to use and evaluate conditional statements using QBASIC. They create conditional/boolean statements in a variety of situations. Students write IF statements in QBASIC. They evaluate conditional expressions.
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Speak Out!
Learners are introduced to Yvonne Ranier's "Trio A" dance and investigate how to express concern over social issues through choreography. They research important issues from the 1960's, choreograph and perform original dances.
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Modeling Integer Multiplication
Pupils multiply positive and negative integers. They represent word expressions with both positive and negative integers and then multiply them. They also create multiplication problems to solve as a class. They create a rhyme, a story,...
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PHONEMIC AWARENESS INFUSION
Students demonstrate the ability to participate in conversation/ dialog during a job interview. They demonstrate how to produce these pronunciation features, recognize the contrasting sounds, distinguish between the sounds when heard,...
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Confounding Words
Eleventh graders gain understanding of how words in the English language are formed. They assess their own work for sentence clarity and variety of expression. They increase their comprehension and recall.
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Expressionism: Painting
Students judge the effectiveness of artistic expressions using current art theories such as representationalism, functionalism, and formalism, and find examples of each through internet research.
Teacher Created Resources
Complex Sentences Made Easy
Support scholars' ability to write complex sentences with a two-page instructional activity designed to inform and reinforce. Here, learners obtain a brief overview of what a complex sentence is and how one is made; then apply their...
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Third Grade Fluency Lesson
Looking for an activity to increase fluency? Third graders will practice reading comprehension by expanding their reading level. They will demonstrate for their teacher their current reading level and then decide on a goal to be reached...
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Freewriting: Exploring Everybody's Favorite Topic
Students engage in the practice of freewriting to improve expressing written thoughts. Then the process of editing takes place to solidify the practice of the writing process.
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World can't wait, students say
Young scholars create a lesson to present to the rest of the class about current laws, including expressing killing the president as a joke. Students research past events and current laws. Young scholars present to the class using...
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Fate Versus Free Will
Students relate legends of lucky objects such as a rabbit's foot and principles of Feng Shui to fate and free will concepts that are expressed in Shakespeare's play, "Julius Casear". In small groups, they redesign the palace of Casear to...
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Cool Tools to Solve Challenging Word Problems
Students explore math functions by completing worksheets in class. In this word problem lesson, students read the story A Remainder of One and practice solving division problems from the story. Students complete a worksheet which...