Integrate academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons with this engaging new resource for Level 5, which provides teachers with 12 easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary. Included are 25 step-by-step standards-based lessons that each incorporate two vocabulary strategies. Also included are activity pages and assessments, an answer key, and a Teacher Resource CD. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 176pp.
This series, Academic Vocabulary: 25 Content-Area Lessons, provides ready-to-
use lessons that help teachers develop effective strategies that build vocabulary
and conceptual understanding in all content areas. Vocabulary knowledge is a ...
Boost students' language arts vocabulary with easy-to-implement effective strategies! Sample lessons using each strategy are included for grade spans K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 using vocabulary words from standards-based, content-specific units of study. Each strategy also includes suggestions for differentiating instruction. Each notebook includes 25 research-based strategies, differentiation suggestions for each strategy, assessment strategies, sample word lists including both specialized content and general academic words, and parent letters in both English and Spanish. Also included is a Teacher Resource CD with PDFs of resource pages, word lists, assessment pages, and parent letters. This resource is correlated to the Common Core and other state standards.
Students put vocabulary in order based on their definitions. For example, the
word seldom may be discussed in conjunction with the words never, occasionally
, often, and always. Students can see how these words are ordered according to
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Make history in your classroom with an engaging, integrated approach to active social studies learning. You'll motivate your students with powerful strategies for brainstorming, language arts integration, discussion, primary sources, and deductive reasoning. The included Teacher Resource CD features modifiable students pages, and assessment materials. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 304pp.
Another type of grouping is called cooperative learning. Here the teacher groups
students together in order to create heterogeneous teams. Within each group,
students are given the instructions needed to complete a task. Regardless of the
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Learn about ocean maps and the concepts surrounding coordinate planes as Ocean Maps explores geography under the sea, early and current navigation practices, and the variety of ways the ocean can be mapped such as sonar, submersibles, and satellites.
Sailors knew that in the northern hemispherehemisphere (HEM-uhs-feer), the Pole Star showed which way was north. Star Light, Star Bright The Pole Star sits
above the North Pole. The Pole Star is also known as the North Star, the Steering
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Students analyze Bridge to Terabithia using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.
Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.
