This task challenges a student to demonstrate fluency in adding and subtracting whole numbers.

Inspired by "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)," this lesson asks students to think about memorable writing--writing that has, in some way, touched them personally. Students will make multiple drafts of simple advice in order to make...

The purpose of this task is to give students a chance to work creatively with three of the four fundamental arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication). It is well suited for helping students develop fluency with...

The purpose of this task is to help students develop fluency with addition facts to 10. Using the book "Ten Flashing Fireflies" by Philemon Sturges, students will move a yellow counter to the ten frame to represent the firefly in the...

The students will be investigating mathematical rules for division to assist them with fluency. This lesson will be added to their tool box!

Second graders demonstrate comfort with addition, but show less ease with subtraction. Repeated practice with subtraction is necessary to build fluency.

Playing a game for the order of operations engages students in math fact review and builds fluency.

Sixth graders will be able to use estimation to increase fluency when calculating decimal problems.

Students will learn that there are multiple ways to solve math problems, such as drawing a picture, using counters, using fingers, using a number line, and memorizing facts. The teacher writes a simple addition problem on the whiteboard...

Students will learn about teen numbers by understanding the base-ten structure of teen numbers. They will fill-in a 10-frame and a blank equation as they complete the activity. Worksheet included.

The purpose of this task is to help students develop flexible strategies for adding and subtracting within 20. Students will pick 5 number cards from pre-made cards labeled 1-10. Then, another student will pick a "target number" between...

During this technology-based lesson, fifth grade students explore different states by locating information on the Internet. Students use the information they find and create a presentation to help their classmates learn about the states.

Second graders play a favorite card game which practices the quick and accurate recall of double facts.

Next week marks the start of our Skiing and Snowboarding program at the Waitsfield School. Today the students will find out what each classmate would prefer to do.

Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases

In this lesson, students will create 4 original poems within a particular rhythm and rhyme scheme.

For this lesson students learn how to paint a setting with their descriptive choice of words.

In this lesson the students will use the conditional "if" in order to guide their reader to become someone or something.

In this instructional activity students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.

In this lesson students will use the sentence structure from Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

In this lesson, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson. Students will develop sentences with...

In this lesson, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.

Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.

In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.