Curated OER
Reader Response: Keith Gilyard and Mourning Dove
Students respond to Mourning Dove's Coyote Stories by discovering Native American storytelling. They create a traditional lodge and write their own stories.
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Class Book
Third graders review how they can save their work on a computer once they are finished. As a class, they complete various assignments based on a rubric they are given and save them to a disk. Using the assignments, they combine all of...
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You Be The Teacher
Students create their own math problems with one restriction, the answer the teacher gives them must be kept in a sealed envelope. They may make up any kind of problem they like.
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Buttons and Bears
Students read the problem and then identify the important information in the problem and highlight. They then brainstorm for ways to solve the problem by drawing a picture and working in pairs.
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My Dogs
Students use the properties of multiplication to solve problems. They recall the basic multiplication facts as well as write and solve problems that involve whole numbers.
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Elders As Resources
Students engage in a lesson that uses discussion groups for communication. The focus of the lesson is upon the respect for authority that should be given to older adults. Students engage in class discussion about the information that can...
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Non-Objective Constructed Sculpture
Students begin their examination of non-objective artwork. Individually, they participate in activities in which they take designs within other images and use them for their focus in their art. They create a sculpture with the new...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Visualizing Using the Sketch to Stretch Strategy
Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Questioning a Comprehension Strategy for Small Group Reading
Contains plans for three lessons about asking the right questions while reading. After the teacher explains the difference between factual and inferential questions, middle schoolers practice using them in small-group guided reading. In...
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Read Write Think: Using the Prediction Strategy to Set Purposes for Reading
Contains plans for three lessons that teach a reading comprehension technique called the prediction strategy, where students predict what will happen in a story before reading. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
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E workshop.on.ca: Number Sense and Numeration, Grds 4 6: Addition, Subtract [Pdf]
Volume 2 of an eworkshop Guide to Effective Instruction in Math outlines and illustrates instructional strategies for teaching addition and subtraction to students in grades 4 through 6. Include a series of suggested activities.
University at Buffalo
Writing Strategies
Provides some help with the difficult job of teaching writing by providing some strategies for students to follow. Easy to navigate from the top of the page, strategies are categorized into grade 3-6 and 6-12, in addition to lesson plan...
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Addition and Subtraction Higher Numbers
An extensive selection of teacher resources to aide in teaching and reviewing addition and subtraction of two and three digit numbers, inverse operations, counting on, and other mental strategies for addition and subtraction. Resources...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Once Upon a Fairy Tale Teaching Revision as a Concept
Contains plans for five lessons that teach the difference between revision and editing using fractured fairy tales. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Multiplication Strategy: Partial Products 2 [Pdf]
Break down numbers as a strategy to multiply one-digit by three-digit numbers and two-digit by two-digit numbers.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding
Contains plans for one 60-minute lesson that teaches about a reading strategy called Character Perspective Charting. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Working With Larger Numbers
Explore subtraction and addition but having student collect data from rolling objects. This lesson has students adding and subtracting numbers they collected using strategies used in class. Use the document and video found on this page...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sequencing a Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
Contains plans for lessons that use the story of Paul Bunyan to teach about sequencing and order of events. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Zoo Addition
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart concentrates on addition but uses a wide variety of teaching strategies to help students understand addition. The clever theme keeps their attention and problems are stated in several...
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E workshop.on.ca: Effective Instr'n in Math, K 6: Multidigit Computation [Pdf]
Volume 5 in an eworkshop Guide to Effective Instruction in Math outlines and illustrates instructional strategies for teach basic facts and multidigit computation to students in kindergarten through grade 6.
LD Online
Ld Online: Mathematics for Secondary Students With Ld
An excellent, comprehensive article providing discussion on the effectiveness of mathematics instruction to students who have learning disabilities. In addition to the complete discussion presented, the article includes strategies for...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 2
How would you add 2 1/2 and 2/3? How would you find the difference between 2 1/2 and 2/3? Students continue to develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 1
If Ashley ate 1/2 pizza, Tatyana ate 1/3 of a pizza, and Tiffany ate 5/8 of a pizza, how much pizza did they eat altogether? What's the smallest number of pizzas they ordered? How much was left? Students work to develop strategies for...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Thinking Blocks
This lesson teaches students how to use colored blocks to model word problems. There are several sets of problems each for addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, and ratio word problems.