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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (3), or English Language Arts (3), or Mathematics (2)
Title: Let's Go Shopping!
Description: This lesson will give students practice with adding and subtracting money using a calculator. It will provide them an opportunity to determine savings using a store coupon, and determine the change they should recieve when making purchases using $1.00 and $5.00 bills.
This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Subject: English Language Arts (2 - 3), or English Language Arts (2 - 3)
Title: Funny Sequence
Description: After a discussion and work on sequence, students will apply this knowledge to sequencing comic strips through group work.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Sequencing: A Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
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Description: Did Paul Bunyan gouge out the Grand Canyon before or after he dug the Great Lakes? Students create a life-sized timeline showing the sequence of events in this tall tale.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
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Description: A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in 1909.
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Description: Students discuss similarities in Burton's illustrations and writing style in her many books, in addition to her use of personification.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Using Science Texts to Teach the Organizational Features of Nonfiction
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Description: Students explore organizational features of nonfiction science. Students then work together to create a two-page spread using those features to present information about their local environment.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
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Description: Students are guided through the process of taking notes while reading factual information, then turning those notes into new sentences and paragraphs written in their own words.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Investigating Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
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Description: Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Find favorite book picks in the Children's Choices.
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Description: Students create lists of their favorite books and then the class creates a '' Top Picks'' class booklist. Students can use the Book Cover Creator to create a book jacket for their favorite book.
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Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6
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