May 30, 2014 - During work time today, introduce the importance of specific skills during collaborative discussions, and then begin listening to students’ discussion skills and using the Conversation Criteria...
May 30, 2014 - This lesson follows part 2 of the close reading cycle, which students were introduced to in Lesson 3 (with Rain School). Review that lesson.
May 13, 2014 - CONTINUED CLOSE READING OF THANK YOU, MR. FALKER: TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS AND VOCABULARY
Students will need materials from Lesson 9: Excerpts from Thank You, Mr. Falker (student copy), anchor chart...
May 13, 2014 - VOCABULARY: FINDING THE MEANING OF WORDS IN CONTEXT IN THE BOY WHO LOVED WORDS
In advance: Pull two sentences from the book The Boy Who Loved Words, each that has a new vocabulary word in it. Use...
Jun 14, 2016 - Please Note: The central text for Grade 3 module 2A, Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, is currently available and in stock from American Reading Company (http://www.americanreading.com/), which has...
May 30, 2014 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING TO BECOME AN EXPERT (ABOUT FROGS)
In this first unit, students will begin to learn how experts build knowledge as they consider what makes a frog a frog and...
May 23, 2018 - CONTINUED CLOSE READING OF PAGES 4–7 AND 12-15 OF BULLFROG AT MAGNOLIA CIRCLE: TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS AND VIVID WORDS AND PHRASES
This lesson introduces a new kinesthetic vocabulary activity (see...
May 23, 2018 - CONTINUED CLOSE READING OF PAGES 8–11 AND 16-25 OF BULLFROG AT MAGNOLIA CIRCLE: TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS AND VIVID WORDS AND PHRASES
Students will need materials from Lesson 4: Bullfrog at Magnolia...
May 23, 2018 - MID-UNIT ASSESSMENT: CLOSE READING OF PAGES 26–31 OF BULLFROG AT MAGNOLIA CIRCLE: BULLFROG LIFE CYCLE
In this lesson, students independently apply the close reading skills they have been building in...
May 23, 2018 - CONTINUED CLOSE READING OF PAGE 32 OF BULLFROG AT MAGNOLIA CIRCLE: TEXT-DEPENDENT QUESTIONS, MAIN IDEAS, AND KEY VOCABULARY ABOUT THE BULLFROG
Though it follows a somewhat similar structure to...
May 30, 2014 - Case Study: Reading to Build Expertise about Freaky Frogs
In Unit 2, students will continue to develop their skills through careful reading of informational texts. Class members will extend their...
May 23, 2018 - USING INFORMATIONAL TEXT FEATURES AND LEARNING FREAKY FROG VOCABULARY
This lesson introduces students’ vocabulary notebooks. Allow more time in other parts of the school day to reinforce this...
May 23, 2018 - END OF UNIT ASSESSMENT: ON-DEMAND INFORMATIONAL PARAGRAPH ABOUT HOW THE POISON DART FROG SURVIVES
In this lesson, students practice their fluency skills by performing their freaky frog poem aloud to...
Aug 09, 2016 - Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Interdependent Roles in Colonial Times
Students learn about what life was like in Colonial America. They go on to study the many roles people...
May 23, 2018 - PARAGRAPH WRITING: THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN COLONIAL AMERICA
This lesson builds on students’ background knowledge with writing strong paragraphs that they developed during Module 1. For their writing...
May 17, 2014 - Close Reading: The Introduction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This lesson reinforces the vocabulary work from Lesson 3, and introduces a new vocabulary strategy: using morphology (word...
May 17, 2014 - Summarizing Complex Ideas: Comparing the Original UDHR and the “Plain Language” Version
Review Vocabulary strategies and Write-Pair-Share protocols (see Appendix 1)
May 17, 2014 - POINT OF VIEW: COMPARING ESPERANZA’S AND ISABEL’S PERSPECTIVES ABOUT LIFE IN THE CAMP (CHAPTER 7: “LAS CEBOLLAS/ONIONS”)
This lesson includes a close reading of pages 116–117, which is done as a full...
Mar 13, 2019 - Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Biodiversity in Rainforests of the Western Hemisphere
This module—intended to be used in conjunction with a Social Studies unit about Latin America...
Mar 14, 2019 - BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: HOW SCIENTISTS COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE LIVING THINGS OF THE RAINFOREST
In this first unit, students will explore the question: “What is unique about living things in the...
Mar 14, 2019 - READING AN INTERVIEW: “SLOTH CANOPY RESEARCHER: BRYSON VOIRIN”
In this lesson students set up their glossaries at the back of their journal. This is in effect a vocabulary notebook for the module....
Mar 14, 2019 - SUMMARIZING INFORMATIONAL TEXT: “HAWAII’S ENDANGERED HAPPY FACE SPIDER”
Make sure all anchor charts from lessons 1 to 3 are visible to students.
Review “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider”
Review...
