Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Math - Two-Digit Addition Task Cards

Math - Two-Digit Addition Task Cards

Jan'etta Hayden
Grades 2-5

Two-Digit Addition Task Cards
Two Sets
*One set without regrouping
*One set with regrouping
Ways these cards may be used:
Math Center- This can be a stand-alone center for three-digit addition reinforcement
Partner Work- Students can work together to solve the equations
Scoot- Put one card on each student's desk.  Students use the answer sheet to record their answer. After all students have answered their question, the teacher says, "Scoot".  Students then move to the next desk to solve the next equation.
Task Cards- Students may uses these cards as an extra practice activity

There are two complete sets for differentiation.  One set doesn't have regrouping.  One set does have regrouping.  This is actually two complete math centers in one.

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English Language Arts Lessons – "FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic: Letter E"

February 3rd is E day.

FEBRUARY FLAIR Blog Blast poster

By: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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Today, February 3rd is E day on the English Language Arts Lessons – FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic list. The E in this post stands for Elements of Literature PowerPoint, a 10 slide FREEBIE.

The ten slides in this presentation enable teachers to show students how to analyze literature in depth. Each slide offers a visual lesson for Setting, Characters, Plot, Conflict, The World the Author Creates, Theme, Symbols, Tone and Literary Terms that help develop the students' understanding of these backbones of literature.

Elements of Literature PowerPoint
Teachers can use this presentation as an overview before delving into a literature study, or as a reinforcement prior to analyzing a short story, a novel, or narrative non-fiction. Another idea is to show each slide as each element of literature is introduced. This is also useful in Creative Writing classes when students are writing fiction as well as in English classes.

By using this presentation in conjunction with any literature study, teachers are ensuring that students are building powerful reading comprehension homes. This slide presentation addresses the Common Core Anchor Standards for Literature (R1, 2,3, 5, 6 and 10) and Bloom's Taxonomy's Remember/Understand, Apply, Analyze and Evaluate thinking skills.



This FREE PowerPoint coordinates seamlessly with my book, The House of Comprehension, a resource that shows teachers how to teach students the importance of every element of literature, and how they all mesh to form durable comprehension homes.  Use both this PowerPoint and the book to plan and design any fiction or narrative non-fiction text.


Stay warm, stay stress-free and stay lesson planned.

Happy Teaching,








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Monday, February 2, 2015

Dyslexia Worksheets-Help with common reversals b,d,p and q!

By: Christine O'Donnell
Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade

Here is a growing set of worksheets I have designed to help my Kindergartners and my own child with the common reversals of b,d,p and q. This pack now contains 48 worksheets with several levels of differentiation possible. Please read more about these worksheets on my blog: 
Enjoy!
Christine

Language Arts - "Task Cards: ELA Common Core Grades 3-6 (Bundle)"

By Christina L
Grades 3-6

Save over 50% with this bundle.
It contains 110 Task Cards. Each task card is larger and longer than normal, 5 -10 questions each so students can work on just one card. More advanced students may complete more than one card. A "user friendly" method of displaying them is to laminate them, punch a hole in the corner and attach them with a binder ring.

Suggested Uses:
• Place in a literacy center.
• Great for test review, early finishers and small group intervention
• Laminate to use year after year.
• Punch a a hole in the corner of each card and attach with a loose leaf binder ring.

This bundle includes the following products:
Task Cards: Prepositional Phrases, Run-Ons, Fragments and Complete Sentences
Task Cards: Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
Task Cards: Proofreading
Task Cards: Multiple Meaning Words and Homophones
Task Cards: Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots
Task Cards: Compare and Contrast (Common Core Grades 3-5)
Task Cards: Similes, Metaphors and Idioms (Common Core Grades 3-6)
Task Cards: Cause and Effect (Common Core Grades 3-5)
Task Cards: Parts of Speech
Task Cards: Synonyms, Antonyms and Homophones (Common Core Grades 3-5)
Task Cards: Punctuation

Thanks for looking!
Christina L

Language Arts Lesson - "L Blends Rub-a-Dub activity"

Created By:
Elementary Creations
Kindergarten, 1st-2nd grade
This packet is a great resource that includes cooperative learning games along with printable handouts that will handy when teaching "L" blends to your class. The “L” blends included are: “bl, cl, gl, fl, pl, and sl.”
All games can be introduced as a group and then placed in the literacy center at the end of the week. I have provided instructions for each game. Although, cards can be used in many different ways.
Games include:
Matching and sorting- this game is the “rub-a-dub” game. It has 72 bubble pictures. One set with the words and the other without. It also included all 6 “L” blends in the bathtub. You can use this game as a match and sort. Students will need to look at the picture and place it in the correct bathtub blend. I have also added a blend mat sheet.  
Puzzle building game- 18 pictures with missing words. Students will need to find the right blend and ending sound to make the word. Record sheet provided.

QQT/Memory game- 20 pictures along with 6 blend sound cards that can be used for a memory game. Students will need to match the picture with the correct card. Or you may use the picture cards for a QQT game, in which the student will need to say the word and provide which blend it begins with. You may use the blend cards for QQT game, in which the student will now need to provided a word that begins with that blend.

This packet also includes 6 printable handouts that can be used for homework, classwork or a center to review the “L” blends. Each handout also includes an answer key.

If you need more “L” blends items check out my ”L” Blend poster pack!! 
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Language Art Lesson- "Guided Research Reports: Endangered Animals (Grades 1 - 3)"

By Teacher Features
Grades 1-3




Everything you need to get your students started on a beginning guided research project! Follow the Guided Research Process and use the graphic organizer templates to teach your class how to navigate and organize information. Students will create Important Questions (essential questions) to provide focus to their research. There are 30 Endangered Animals included in this bundle. All of the templates are Print & Go and easy to use! This 40-page bundle can be easily differentiated to multiple student learning levels. 

Common Core Standards (pg. 3)
Guided Research Process directions (pgs. 4-5)
K-W-L Template (pg. 6)
“Important Question” Anchor Chart (pg. 7)
What Do I Do Now? (pg. 8)
Write Down Your Sources: Computer/Books (pgs. 9-10)
Endangered Animal Templates (pgs.11- 40)

Bluefin Tuna
American Alligator
Black Footed Ferret
Gray Wolf
Piping Plover
Ring-tailed Lemur
Sumatran Orangutan
Pygmy Hippo
Leatherback Turtle
Northern Spotted Owl
Koala
Brown Hyena
Mako Shark
Snow Leopard
Cheetah
African Elephant
African Lion
North African Ostrich
Indian Rhinoceros
Grizzly Bear
Polar Bear
Toco Toucan
Siberian Tiger
Giant Panda
Mountain Gorilla
American Crocodile
Green Anaconda
African Wild Dog
Leatherback Turtle
Blue Whale



English Language Arts Lessons - "FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic- Letter F"

February Flair Blog Blast poster


By: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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Fickle weather February can be a planning nightmare for teachers. So many evenings after hearing the meteorologists' forecast for snow, sleet, a wintry mix or plain rain, we fuss over our plans for the next day(s) wondering, "What can I shorten, move or cut...IF we get an Inclement Weather Day?"

To lessen teacher planning stress, I have created  a FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic using the letters in this title.  Starting today, February 2nd and continuing through February 14th, I will post 1-3 lessons, activities, novel unit plans, PowerPoints or Bulletin Board ideas each day that begin with the letter of the day.

Some of these products are for a one-day lesson and others are good for a whole month. Although they will appear on The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs over the next 13 days, my colleagues,- you may adapt them to your schedule any time because only one is February specific. Also, four are FREE.

Here are three offerings for the first F of FEBRUARY FLAIR.


F
February Frenzy – Fabulous Five Packet
This product offers 5 activities but over 50 writing topics!  Each of these activities will rouse students from the gray days of this month,  and will encourage them to develop their reading comprehension, writing and higher level thinking skills.

What is Included?
Reading Comprehension
1. This is What I’m Hungry For!  offers students 30 elements of literature discussion and writing topics to coordinate with the text that they are studying.
2. Friend or Foe? For this activity, each student chooses which character in the story he/she would befriend on a social media site as well as the one he/she would ignore.
Writing and Higher Level Thinking Skills
1. In Then and Now Prewriting Activity,  students explore their memory banks to fill in the information to show the person each one was at age six. After that, evaluate the person each one is now.
2. For the Playing With Color Worksheet, students fill in the given categories as specifically as possible for the color marker each one is given.
3. With Brain Bumps: Twenty Writing Suggestions to End Idea Vacuums, students use these suggestions to bounce their brain into inspiration mode when they are stuck in an idea vacuum.
Friday Night Lights Unit Plan
This 24-page unit plan includes: Common Core Anchor Standards, the suggested grade level and time frame, assessments, and detailed daily plans as well as writing journal openers, chapter by chapter discussion questions, a project, review sheet and a test. Ten worksheet handouts go hand in hand with the lessons and follow Bloom's Taxonomy. Reading this book along with viewing the movie is sure to generate some terrific analytic discussions.

Download these lessons and toss your planning frustrations into any of February's frigid blasts or teasing breaths of spring.

Stay warm and come back tomorrow for the letter E.

Happy Teaching,






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Misc. Lesson- I am Abraham Lincoln


By Kayse Morris
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It's finally here!! The much anticipated Abraham Lincoln Mini Unit. This was so exciting to make!! Abraham is one of my most favorite people of all time. This mini unit is JAM PACKED with so much great information just in time for PRESIDENT'S DAY!
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Language Arts - "Jaguars a Nonfiction Resource Pack"



Jaguars are Cool Cats! 
Using my Five Step Method below makes learning meaningful and fun for students.
Part 1: Hook’em with “Fast Facts True or False” Anticipatory Guide. Students predict at the beginning of the unit the answers to guided questions and then check-n-correct their answers after learning the information and/or end of the unit.
Part 2: Read-n-Visualize with high interest informational Articles and mini-book with real life photographs written in kid friendly language. Included is a one page black and white master of the articles to use as a unit overview, study guides, or even as notes for their binders or notebooks.
Part 3: Focus on Skills: to reinforce and enhance student learning with a variety of skill-based activities such as:
Fact vs. Opinion  
True/False   

Predicting
Visualizing  
Compare/Contrast
Vocabulary            
Adding Supporting Details  

Part 4: Realistic Posters with real life photographs to use on the document camera or great for bulletin boards to introduce this topic. You can either preserve these for another year or bind them together as a book for the classroom library.

Part 5: Show What you Know! Student quick check questions, writing prompts, activities, and reflection to evaluate learning. Reflections are perfect for student portfolios and Parent Teacher Conferences.





Sunday, February 1, 2015

SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON - "African American History Webquests and Lesson Plans Collection"


Grades: 6-12

Total Pages
N/A
Answer Key
Included with Rubric
Teaching Duration
3 Weeks


The African American History Collection includes over 20 engaging lesson plans. These lesson plans will add depth and student engagement to any historical topics they are combined with.

The African American History Webquests and Lesson Plans Collection includes all of the following individual lessons:

African American History Webquests
Triangle Trade and Slave Trade Webquest
Civil War Webquest: New York City Draft Riots
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Webquest
African Americans and West: Buffalo Soldiers Webquest
The Duluth Lynching Webquest/Lesson Plan
Tulsa Race Riot Webquest
Civil Rights Milestones Webquest

African American History Video Webquests
Civil War: Emancipation Proclamation in Four Minutes Video Webquest
Civil War: African Americans in Four Minutes Video Webquest
Slavery by Another Name Video Worksheet/Video Webquest
Omaha Race Riot of 1919 and the Lynching of Will Brown Video Webquest
African Americans: Lena Smith and Housing Segregation Laws Video Webquest

African American History Worksheets
African Slave Trade Primary Source Worksheet: The African Connection, ca 1788
African Slave Trade Primary Source Worksheet: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
Fredrick Douglas Primary Source Worksheet: Escape From Slavery
Slavery Primary Source Worksheet: A Slave's Life
Slavery Primary Source Worksheet: Slave Auction 1850
Reconstruction Worksheet: Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master
Civil Rights: Jackie Robinson Baseball and Racism Primary Source Worksheet
Martin Luther King and Birmingham 1963 Worksheet

African American History PowerPoints
Fort Mose First Free African American Settlement in the USA
The New Orleans Slave Revolt Of 1811
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. PowerPoint

African American History Writing and Activities
Civil Rights Research Paper
Civil Rights Scrapbook Lesson Plan

This entire collection (except the powerpoints) is included in the following collections:
History Wizard’s Entire American and World History/Geography (Webquest/Worksheet/Mapping) Set
History Wizard’s Entire American History and Geography Webquest/Worksheet/Mapping Collection

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Language Arts Lesson - “Point of View Comparisons Powerpoint”



Are you having trouble locating resources for RL3.9 (Point of View)??  For this standard, I really could NOT find any suitable materials to teach this new standard in third grade.  Most teachers quickly think that point of view means identify first or third person speaker.  Not the case!  Now, the standard has the students identify the points of view of different characters or the author AND identify their OWN point of view.

With that in mind I developed a PowerPoint that essentially does that.  Using well known fairy tales, I had 2 characters from each fairy tale explain their points of view.  Then I had the students identify their own point of view.

The Powerpoint includes several slides with examples on how to understand what point of view is based on a character's attitude, beliefs, experiences and values:
  • Attitude is the way you feel or think about something or someone. It affects the way you behave and the way others see you. Sometimes these can be seen as character traits.
  • Beliefs are the things that you believe to be true or good or right. They can be ideas, a person or a behavior.  Beliefs can change. You can add new ones or discard old ones.
  • Experiences are the things you see and do in your life. It is also the things that happen to you in your life. Narrow your focus to the topic when selecting experiences.
  • Values are the people, things or behaviors you hold important in your life. These are the things you will fight for! Values can change. You can add new ones or discard old ones.
By using well known fairy tales, students know the characters well enough that they were able to wrap their heads around the concept of point of view.  Graphic organizers are also included to help the students take notes and then make the jump to comparing and contrasting points of view, including their own.






Below is an animated GIF (just hit play) of part of the Powerpoint I developed (the GIF does not show any animation or sound effects which are included in the powerpoint).  It shows the process I took the students through with one of the fairy tales.


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Language Arts Lesson - "How to Focus an Essay Topic"

Created by Dianne Mason
Grades 9-12
Using numerous examples, this lesson enables students to achieve the important goal of narrowing a broad subject into a more focused topic and lays the groundwork for a discussion of thesis statements. A Power Point Presentation of an extended example on insects guides students through the focusing process to arrive at a manageable topic. Included is a suggested activity so students can practice what they've learned. 

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LANGUAGE ARTS/HISTORY: George Washington Literacy, Math and History Unit Common Core Aligned

By Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti
Grades 4, 5 and 6 

Link to Lesson

These Common Core Activities integrate the story of George Washington into English/Language Arts, reading and math. The activities can be used together, as stand alone assignments, to accompany texts regarding George Washington and/or as centers. They are a perfect way to explore the life of George Washington for President’s Day or any time!

This unit includes a PowerPoint Presentation and notes for the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint student note section can be printed and copied for students as you go through the presentation. Guiding students through the PowerPoint pictures is a great way to differentiate for ESL and at risk students.