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Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston's "Farewell to Manzanar"
Passages from Unbroken and Farewell to Manzanar provide the context for a study of the historical themes of experiencing war, resilience during war, and understanding the lasting trauma of war. Appendices include extension activities,...
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - "The Fisherman and his Wife"
Help young readers learn to read and interpret complex text independently. Teach young children to ask interpretive questions and use the text itself to answer them. Use art, word play and drama to provide a deeper understanding of...
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"The Glorious Whitewasher" from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain with Mini-Assessment
It's the classic scene: Tom Sawyer is whitewashing a fence. Expose your learners to Mark Twain's humor while reinforcing reading comprehension. Eighth graders are encouraged to read and reread, achieving as much exposure to the text as...
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Eleven
Turning 11 comes with a range of emotions. Explore those emotions by reading the short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros. Readers analyze the main character's reactions to the events of her day. Then, they write an essay describing what...
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You've Been Lied To: The REAL Christopher Columbus
Looking for resources that explore alternative perspectives of the Christopher Columbus story? Check out the images, videos, cartoons, primary source documents, and other texts in a packet designed to spark debate.
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Achievethecore.org: Achieve the Core
This website is full of free content designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core Standards. It includes practical tools designed to help students and teachers see their hard work to deliver results....
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Illustrative Mathematics: Addition and Subtraction Fluency Set of Tasks [Pdf]
Students explore the relationship between addition and subtraction and develop an understanding of decomposing numbers in different ways in this first-grade lesson plan.
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Achieve the Core: Illustrative Mathematics: The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Pdf]
In this lesson, first-grade students explore counting on and the place value system using the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Three Composing/decomposing Problems [Pdf]
In this grade 2 lesson plan, students use base ten blocks to compose and decompose numbers.
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Student Achievement Partners: Are Fractions Numbers? [Pdf]
In this assessment, students use reasoning to justify if fractions are numbers.
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Student Achievement Partners: How Many Teams? [Pdf]
Students are assessed on understanding the meaning of the quotient and remainder to solve real word prolems.
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Nctm: Sharing Chocolate [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students use chocolate bars to explore adding fractions with unlike denominators.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Banana Pudding [Pdf]
Young scholars are given a concrete example to solve multiplication and division of fractions in this lesson activity.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Cup of Rice [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore dividing fractions through real world concepts.
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Student Achievement Partners: Looking for and Making Use of Structure [Pdf]
In this lesson, students solve quadratic equations and make use of the structure.
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Student Achievement Partners: Penny Circle Task [Pdf]
Students will explpre models and understand the difference between quadratic, exponential, and linear models in this instructional activity.
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Achieve the Core: Professional Dev: Understanding Text Dependent Questions
Understanding Text-Dependent Questions is a 1-4 hour module designed to promote understanding of how text-dependent questions support the key shifts required by the Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy. It includes the following:...
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Gr. 10 Literature Mini Assessment: Excerpt From Julius Caesar, Act Iii, Scene Ii
This Language Arts assessment is based on a scene from Act III of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Students first read the accompanying text and watch a video of the scene being performed. They then answer a set of mainly multiple-choice...
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Achieve the Core: Dice Addition 1 [Pdf]
This complete lesson plan has students play a dice game to begin the introduction of addition and fact fluency.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Number Rods [Pdf]
Students use unifix cubes or snap cubes to explore counting and linear ordering of numbers in this lesson.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Multiplication and Division Fluency Set of Tasks [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, learners are tasked with fluently solving multiplication and division facts.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Find 1/4 Starting From 1, Assessment Variation [Pdf]
Assess students learning of fractional parts with this assessment.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Fraction Comparisons With Pictures [Pdf]
Assess students knowledge of comparing fractions using pictures with this assessment.
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Illustrative Mathematics: Comparing Money Raised [Pdf]
In this instructional activity learners use word problems to explore multiplication and building multiplication equations.