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Study Jams! Measure Length
Mia's pet lizard has grown a lot since he was a baby and she needs help measuring his length now that he's an adult. After choosing the best tool for the job, RJ goes step by step through the measurement process, modeling how to use both...
Scholastic
Study Jams! The Rock Cycle
Rock out with a song, video, and quiz about the rock cycle. Learn how it is similar to recycling, the different kinds of rocks, and how they form. There is a karaoke feature that allows learners to sing along, helping to cement the...
Curated OER
Descriptive Writing Using the Book Rumpelstiltskin
Use the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin to teach your third grade class about descriptive writing. Following a teacher read-aloud of the story, the class brainstorms a list of adjectives describing the main character. Students use this list...
French Teacher
Il est comment? Describing Hairstyles
What does your hair look like? Is it brown? Blonde? Introduce your beginning French language learners to describing one's physical appearance. A review slide at the end prompts your class to practice using the new vocabulary words.
French Teacher
Les Pièces de la Maison
How many rooms are in your home? Do you have a home office? Introduce or review the French words for different rooms of a house. Each slide offers the French term and a picture showing the room. The final slide offers a chance to review....
French Teacher
Les règlement
What are your school rules? Teach your beginning French speakers how to describe the rules using phrases like il faut que and c'est obligatoire de. The fifteenth, and final, slide presents a short practice exercise for your class.
Curated OER
The Weekend
What are you doing this weekend? Help your beginning French speakers discuss their weekend plans, whether it's for this weekend or a weekend in the future. An activity at the end requires class members to pair-up and get talking!
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Une journée typique
How do you spend your morning? This 34-slide presentation offers an opportunity to review day-to-day vocabulary. The terms are all presented in French and are accompanied by a picture. On the final three slides, you'll find a practice...
Curated OER
Il est comment? Elle est comment?
Est-ce qu'elle petite ou grande? Review basic French descriptors with your beginning language learners. Nineteen slides review common phrases to describe one's physical shape and size, along with one's hair and eye color. The six final...
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Les pays et les nationalités
I live in the United States, and I am American. Where do you live? Teach your beginning French speakers how to politely inquire where another is from. Twenty-five countries are introduced (like the United States, France, Italy, Spain,...
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Acheter un cadeau
What can you buy at a department store? Review some basic vocabulary terms with your beginning speakers. The first 23 slides present new vocabulary terms, and the final slide allows your class to speak the new words aloud. How many can...
BBC
Rivers
The water cycle, rainfall, and the flow of water into rivers then out into the ocean are the main ideas covered here. After a teacher-led discussion and activity, learners pair off and write a commentary about the water cycle that is to...
Region of Peel
Put Me in Order
Sorting fractions, integers, decimals and square roots into sequential order is an active process when you use a gym as your setting. After your class is divided into two groups and provided with number cards, they compete to see who can...
Curated OER
QAR: Question Answer Relationships with an example from Canyons by Gary Paulsen
As you're reading Gary Paulsen's tale of self discovery and adventure, Canyons, bring this questioning strategy into your classroom. The QAR questioning strategy is meant to encourage a deeper analysis of the text, as some questions are...
Curated OER
Flipped: Anticipation Guide Instructions
Encourage text-to-self connections with a prereading strategy designed for Flipped. Clear steps are included, and the actual anticipation guide is the final page of the three-page packet. Ten statements are provided, and class members...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story (Peters)
Lisa Peters presents macroevolution as a large-scale family tree in her book Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story. She suggests the process from single-celled organisms to modern-day humans, and learners explore new vocabulary through the...
Curated OER
Building Sentences
Whether working with pupils in their primary language or language learners, the exercises included in this resource will encourage your pupils to build more complex sentences. Using color-coded cards of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and...
Curated OER
What's the Weather Like? Primary Level
Elementary schoolers and language learners will shine with a series of games and activities that feature weather words. The exercises can be adapted for pairs, small groups, or whole class participation.
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Textual Analysis Lesson: Segregation: Past or Present?
Are your scholars reading Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee? If so, use this textual analysis packet and lesson guide to drive deeper thinking about the characters, create personal connections, and apply historical contexts to the text....
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Adventures in Toyland
There are many ways to tell a story; Richard Patterson's three-dimensional painting If serves as the inspiration for some creative storytelling for elementary school writers. They watch a clip from Toy Story (you'll need to bring this),...
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Map It Out
Explore how illustrations add to a story. Young learners will look at picture books to see how the pictures tell the story. They create illustrations to go with a chosen story, and then flip the activity so they have to write a story to...
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Only the Facts
Practice the strategy of summarizing to gain meaning and knowledge from an informational text. Young readers highlight supporting details and main ideas, and then they use this to summarize two articles: "The Great Quake" and "What is an...
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Guided Reading: Main Idea
Readers are presented with a list of three questions and asked to actively listen to a story or article to answer them. They verbally answer the questions to learn the strategy. Next, read a story to them or have them silently read a...
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Newcomers
Explore emotions associated with moving to a new home with young learners. First they listen to the books Painted Words/Spoken Memories by Aliki and Going Home by Eve Bunting. Then they are invited to share their experiences as well as...