A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, and explain. Materials are included. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6

The Mathematics Assessment Project aims to bring the Common Core State Standards (CCSSM) to life in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities. The project's free...

Contains plans for seven lessons that teach students to use more expressive synonyms in their written and oral language. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains printable resources for the lessons as...

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.

Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about proper dialogue format while writing, specifically paragraphing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.

In this lesson plan, students will consider Character in Place: Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" for the Common Core. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.

This instructional activity is a workshop for writers. This idea was taken from the Ralph Fletcher book: What a Writer Needs. Students create a character, either real or fictional, and place that character in a scene in order to write...

While 3 Dimensional shapes are not mentioned specifically in the Common Core, they do include the term face which is more appropriate for 3D shape attributes.

Contains plans for one 50-minute lesson that teaches about using dialogue tags like "he said" or "she answered." In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to PDF handouts and links to sites...

Lesson allows for middle school learners who are familiar with researching electronic sources to gain a deeper understanding of the benefits of online resources versus traditional print.

Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...

Contains plans for four lessons that use The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster to teach about figurative language. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to handouts and to sites used in the...

Contains plans for four lessons that teach students how to make and present strong persuasive speeches. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment...

Find instructions, forms, and inspiration to help students to share their reading excitement with the class.

This section explores the process for finding values for x that make polynomial equality true when written in terms of x and set equal to zero.

This section builds from previous sections on simplifying, multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting rational expressions, and it investigates how to apply those skills to solving rational equations. It also covers several...

Learn and understand central angles and chords.

See how two triangles are congruent it means that all corresponding angle pairs and all corresponding sides are congruent.

Explore the rigid transformations of shape reflections.

Learn how to manipulate and measure composite shapes.

Explore and discover the Pythagorean theorem.