This video provides examples of how to address the CCSS 3rd-grade standards for writing in a sane and pragmatic manner.
The Common Core State Standards are more nonsense than sense. A few standards are good. That doesn't mean more standards are better. You can't "standards"...
Want something that is rigorous, Common Core aligned, and that will help students on extended response tests? I created this set of checklists for reader's response letters just for that purpose.
I have a guest post up over on Minds in Bloom. I talked a lot about how to meet a common core data standard. It is a great post, click...
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Teaching CCSS-ELA 9-10.9 and 11-12.9 and handling the intersection of historical context and literature can be challenging. Check out these tips!
Get ready to unlock the rich heritage of Native Americans with our exciting, CCSS-aligned 4th & 5th Grade Lessons! "Teaching is the Sweetest" indeed when you dive into our differentiated passages. Watch as the seeds of knowledge bloom into understanding. Let's make learning an adventure!
This week we are teaching estimation by rounding to the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100, CCSS 3.NBT.1. On Monday, we created this anch...
After explicitly teaching the parts of the book, this worksheet can be used to assess comprehension, teach scissor skills, and cut/paste. Good craftsmanship is a bonus skill! CCSS RL.K.5 Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Lessons, activities, experiments and videos for teaching all about weather and climate in 3rd grade. The perfect collection of hands-on experiments and close reading activities to keep third grade students engaged while covering NGSS and CCSS standards for third grade!
Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for finding volume of rectangular prisms? Well look no further as Volume of Rectangular Prisms Game Puzzles, for CCSS 5.MD.5, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 5th Grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into you...
Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for attributes of polygons and quadrilaterals? Well bingo! Look no further as 2D Shape Sort Classify Polygon Game Classifying Quadrilateral Activities Puzzles, for CCSS 3.G.1, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 3rd grade geometry activity in element...
Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for solving quadratic equations by factoring? Well bingo! Look no further as Factoring Quadratic Activity Puzzles, for CCSS REI.4, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for high school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a...
Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for division? Well look no further as Division as Sharing Game Puzzles, for CCSS 3.OA.2, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 3rd grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotati...
Grab this 3D Shapes resource to help students discover and describe the attributes of shapes. It’s PACKED with plenty of resources to make teaching all about 3D shapes a breeze like sorting activities, attribute posters, flip books, an assessment, math journal prompts, and more! It’s aligned with TEKS and CCSS.
Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers? Well look no further as 2 Digit Addition and Subtraction I Have Who Has Game, for CCSS 2.NBT.5, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 2nd grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorp...
David has been talking about having a gathering at his house and finally after talking about it for years, he finally initiated a mini-gathering for the ex-CCSS Sec Sch mates. Kogu, Jenny & the boys were invited also cos Kogu is David's supplier for Salmon His house at Sennett Road, few houses away from our ex-Secondary School The boys having fun with the swing Fengshui Pond. Keeren says David fried the fishes when I asked why isn't there any fish in the pond =D Then I saw this mini-armchair & I commented that I can fit in that chair but ... ... Jean doubt me! So I proof her wrong. Yes lah, my tummy is big but not my butt ok?! Don't doubt me when I say I can fit in that mini-armchair =D Jean, the woman that doubt me Michael & Anthony - these 2 men are going to shave their hair for good after tonight! They are heading to "Hair For Hope 2014 at Vivo on 27 Jul 14" for charity. Well done, guys! Some of the guys from another class were having some serious talk over at the dining room, so we fool around at living room Then a group pix with the help of my monopod before everyone leaves. Of cos, shot number.2 Thanks David for organizing the gathering & hosting us. We had great time catching up! Next round - BBQ! =D
Hello awesome Teaching the Core readers! In our plodding quest to conquer the anchor standards, we've arrived at SL.CCR.4. SL.CCR.4 — that's the 4th College and Career Readiness anchor standard within the Speaking and Listening strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — says: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow […]
This lesson covers the CCSS for English Language Arts: 5th ELA - 5.L.1a: Prepositions - Interactive Lesson - 4.L.1e – prepositions and prepositional phrases - including the function of prepositions It also works for reinforcing and reteaching conjunctions at any grade level. This download includes instructions and... Resource One: The first resource is a Teaching PowerPoint Presentation to use as you engage students in learning prepositions. It includes interactive lessons on prepositions, prepositional phrases and the function of prepositions - you teach as students follow along with a similar packet. The presentation is also in PDF - in case there are issues with the PowerPoint. Resource Two: The Similar Packet: The second resource includes student pages – to follow the Teaching Po
By Dana L. Grisham Last year in this blog, I wrote about about TextProject (http://textproject.org) , a not-for-profit organization that supports struggling readers with appropriate texts see the earlier blog on TextProject at https://literacybeat.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/exploring-the-textproject-website-and-text-complexity/. The site changes constantly, as new materials are added. Below is a screenshot of the current homepage. The project is headed…
