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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: An Interest Ing Math Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Eventually, everyone will need to borrow money for one reason or another. A good understanding of how interest works will go a long way when applying for a loan. In this lesson, students will complete a KWL chart about the purchase of a...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Size Sorting on the Big Screen

For Teachers K Standards
SWBAT sort objects by size. The instructor will use a Promethean board (interactive projection) to facilitate this lesson plan.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
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Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will identify what makes a sentence and improve their own sentence construction in this interactive whiteboard lesson activity provided by SMART.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Share and Share Alike (Equal Parts)

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This Five E's AMSTI lesson plan equips students to divide an object into equal parts. A story and interactive whiteboard activity about sharing food demonstrate the idea of equal halves of circles, after which students attempt to half...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Sequence Putting Things in Order

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will practice putting things in order, learn about sequence words, and use sequence words to produce a writing assignment within this interactive SMART whiteboard lesson.