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Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson introduces rules...
Understood For All
Understood: 4 Parts of a Conversation:how to Help Kids With Social Skills Issues
Navigating a conversation can be difficult for kids with social skills issues. Here's a look at the four parts of a conversation, the skills involved, and how to help your child navigate each one.
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Better Lesson: Question: Do You Know Your Question Words?
Once students realize they are able to gain more information and expand their learning by asking questions, they love to use their question words. In the end, the more students ask, the more they will have to answer; therefore, the more...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson will model...
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Better Lesson: Introducing Practical Speaking Skills
If you really speak WELL, people will love to listen! In this lesson, students will practice routines to help them speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Teaching this in the first weeks of school sets...
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Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing
Students will write a sloppy copy and help a peer to edit their writing. They will use a kid-friendly checklist (included)to help each other find their mistakes. Videos of the lesson in action are provided, along with a teacher's grading...
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Better Lesson: Getting to Know You Bags
It is very important to build a class community where all students feel valued and safe. This activity will do just that and you will address the Common Core speaking and listening standards. Students will get to know each by discussing...
Education.com
Education.com: Asking Questions and Finding Answers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Pretending to be someone else is so much fun! In this hilarious lesson, learners will get to take on the persona of a book character as they practice their question and answer skills. At the conclusion...
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Better Lesson: Listen to and Follow Directions: Day 2
One important aspect of the common core is to prepare students to be able to participate in conversations and contribute accurate and relevant information. In this lesson, students listening skills will evolve as they translate verbal...
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Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay
This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Power of Questions
Learners will have the opportunity to work collaboratively by using the Think-Pair-Share technique to ask questions about a story. Included are examples of student's questions, and a Think-Pair-Share poster and document.
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Better Lesson: Topic Sentences
Often, we ask students to find the main idea in the story- this helps when re-telling. Why not apply this idea to writing? Find the main idea and introduce your writing with that idea; just like with a book, it helps with re-telling!...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]
These activities will allow learners to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Summarization Strategy
Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas. The summarization strategy helps young scholars recall the main ideas and specific facts of materials they read. There are five rules for writing summaries.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Wacky "I Will Not" Chalkboard
Students can use this writing idea from the book Wacky We-Search Reports by Barry Lane to demonstrate understanding in any content area. Students use the idea of writing "I will not " sentences to show their knowledge of various...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Students engage in writing workshop, using a timeline to focus in on and write about a specific event.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guess What's in the Bag a Language Based Activity
Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Students try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books
Beginning writers work through a Writing Workshop format to create Question and Answer books. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, possible texts, and samples of student work are all provided.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Doing Our Jobs
In this lesson, students will learn that there are rules to be followed or jobs to be done in the classroom. Students will also learn how to listen and speak to others.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: The Right Questions
Learn the Question Formulation Technique to help students express their thinking without having to depend on teacher questioning to peak their curiosity. There are 6 steps and examples of use in the classroom.
Read Works
Read Works: What Is a Talking Stick?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text talking sticks and how Native Americans used it to take turns speaking. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: No Problem!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to solve a problem. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing
In this instructional activity, young scholars will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Young...
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Thinkport.org: Monitor Comprehension
A resourceful site explaining, chronicling, and detailing the idea of students' monitoring their own comprehension of a task or understanding. Includes a video link, quotes from experts, links, and more.