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Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System Lesson PlanAlex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System Lesson Plan
Publisher
Alabama Learning Exchange
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1st - 8th
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English Language Arts
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1100L
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Alex: Shopping With the Dewey Decimal System

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This lesson is an introduction to the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The Dewey Decimal Classification System will be compared with the familiar layout of a grocery store. Students will organize grocery store items into related groups. This process will then be compared to the organization of books using the Dewey Decimal System.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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