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Better Lesson: Thank You, Thanksgiving
Students will discuss and write about what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving.
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Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening, and Writing Comparing Sentences
In this lesson, 1st graders will look at the structure of both stories to determine how our two stories are the same.
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Better Lesson: Getting to Know Adelita
In this lesson, 1st graders will describe the characters, setting, and key details in "Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella" by Tomie de Paolaby. With guidance and support, students will record the details on a circle map.
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Better Lesson: Peas for Two
Students will comparing and contrast parts of "Eat Your Peas, Louise" by Mike Venezia to "Little Pea" by Amy Krause Rosenthal.
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Better Lesson: Should Animals Wear Clothes? 3 of 5
For this lesson, children share their opinion with the rest of the class about the topic of animals wearing clothes.
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Better Lesson: What's the Problem?
So...did they fix it? An important element of a story plot is a problem and it's solution. Identifying these is a way in which students can demonstrate comprehension.
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Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
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Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
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Better Lesson: The Fishing Trip
What good fishing trip isn't without a good story or two? Today the students will solve comparison story problems involving different lengths of fish.
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Better Lesson: Tiles and Cubes and Clips, Oh My!
Were off to get the measure, the wonderful measure of side! The students will identify the longest side of an object and measure its length with a variety of non standard units.
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Better Lesson: Assessing Counting
1, 2, 3,... Students will demonstrate their counting ability as they count sets of objects between 40-60.
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Better Lesson: Well That's Different!
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
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Better Lesson: Student, Student, What Do You See?
Most bears are getting ready to hibernate this time of year. NOT IN MY ROOM! These little brown bears will be on the hunt for shapes they see.
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Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking
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Better Lesson: Unit Assessment
Survey says? That is the question today, as students work on three different tasks to assess the how they are doing with the skills from the current unit.
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Better Lesson: Getting to Know Cendrillion
When students think of Cinderella, they usually think of the Disney version. In this lesson, 1st graders will learn about the Mexican fairy tale for Cinderella, Cendrillion.
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Better Lesson: Is the Statement True or False?
Second graders use their knowledge of place value to determine whether a comparison statement is true or false.
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Better Lesson: Using Different Units to Measure Day 2
First graders continue to measure floor strips with a choice of three different units.
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Better Lesson: Using Different Units to Measure Day 1
Today students will focus on the idea that measuring an object using different length units will result in different measurements.
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Better Lesson: Measuring With Student Steps
Bill Murray called it "Baby Stepping" but today we will be student stepping. The students will measure 8 different lines using their own feet!
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Better Lesson: Assessing Measurement Techniques
Today you will get an opportunity to conduct an assessment interview that will look at how well your students are measuring with inch tiles.
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Better Lesson: Keeper or Not a Keeper?
First graders measure fish to determine if the fish is a keeper or not a keeper. In doing so, they also tackle rigorous measurement questions!
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Better Lesson: Polar Bear Polar Bear
In this lesson plan, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two characters from the story "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" by Bill Martin, Jr.
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Better Lesson: The Big Yellow Bus
In this instructional activity, students will talk about two characters from The Big Yellow Bus. Students will compare and contrast these characters. Then students write about what is similar and different.