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Class President

Melissa Kozerski — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:48:58 +0000

Looking for a resource to use in your mock classroom elections? Check out this fun freebie! Your students can vote for a class president!

Landforms

Melissa Kozerski — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 03:41:27 +0000

Landforms Unit includes:

1. Polaroid bulletin board: A bulletin board idea with polaroids of the featured landforms (Pages 4-18)

2. Water/land formations categorization: Black and white clip art images for students to color and categorize water and land formations (pages 19-27)

3. Anchor charts: Beautiful, real photographs of all the featured landforms, with the definition of each landform, for you to refer to throughout the unit (pages 28 – 51)

4. Junior explorer certification passport: As your students learn about each of the different landforms, they use their passport to document their learning, eventually earning official explorer status. (Pages 52-77)

5. Lovin’ landforms acrostic poems packet: Students read various non-fiction texts about the landforms, identify the most important ideas, and write an acrostic poem by supporting their answer with ideas from the text. (Pages 78-107)

6. Facts and opinions with landforms: Students identify important facts about specific landforms, referring to the text to support their ideas, and write their opinion. (Pages 108-110)

7. Opinion writing: Students express their opinion about their favorite landform and support their opinion with reasons. (Pages 111-117)

8. Culminating painting project: Students celebrate the end of the landform unit by paining a landform and identifying specific adjectives that describe the landform. (Pages 118-135)

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Anchor Standards Addressed:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.7 Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.8 Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.8 Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

2.W.1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

2.W.7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).

2.W.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

3.W.1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. 3.W.8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.

4.W.1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. 4.W.7. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. 4.W.8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources. 4.W.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

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Three Branches of Government Interactive Graphic Organizer

Melissa Kozerski — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 02:45:01 +0000

Students will learn about the three branches of government with this interactive graphic organizer. Includes cute and colorful posters to label the branches of government, so that you can use as a bulletin board headers.

Please let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks,
Melissa :)

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Comparing Then to Now

Melissa Kozerski — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 02:29:37 +0000

Travel back in time to 1627! Students are now pilgrim boys and pilgrim girls as they learn about colonial life and comparing it to their current lives!

Lessons includes:
1. A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy/Girl flip book
2. Writing facts and opinions about the information provided in the text.
3. An interactive Venn Diagram.
4. Writing an informative paragraph that explains the differences and similarities between the students and a pilgrim boy/girl.

Note: You should have a copy of the following books for this lesson-
– Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl and Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters.

*Common core aligned*
Includes 4 “I can” learning target posters for you to display (COLORFUL- you will want to use a color printer!)

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Consumers and Producers

Melissa Kozerski — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:44:51 +0000

Consumers and Producers- Analyzing Advertisements!
Students learn about consumers and producers as they study advertisements and eventually create their own. The class votes on which advertisement is the most clever and creative! Includes pictures of lesson, directions, and anchor charts of consumers and producers.

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Citizenship Unit

Melissa Kozerski — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:53:29 +0000

Are you looking to teach your students about the characteristics of good citizenship?? There are four lessons (over 100 pages!) to this citizenship unit.

1. Lesson one: Citizenship skits
Standards: CCRA.SL.1 and CCRA.SL.4
Students work in cooperative groups to create and act in their very own skit that will represent either a good citizen or a bad citizen. Older students may have success with creating their own skits. Younger students may be better with using the prompts provided for their citizenship scenario. When ready, invite another class to watch the skits!

2. Lesson two: Rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens
Standards: CCRA.R.5
Students will identify the rights and responsibilities of being a United States Citizen. You can use page 18 as a formative assessment.

3. Lesson three: American symbols
Standards: CCRA.R.5 and CCRA.R.4
You can use these flip books as a guided reading, shared reading, or even closed reading lesson. Students will be able to identify American symbols and the significance of each American symbol.

4. Lesson four: My role model is a good U.S. citizen
Standards: CCRA.W.2 and CCRA.R.4
Students will identify an adult (or even a young adult) who is their role model. Students will identify the character traits that describe their role model. This is also a good opportunity to discuss how some of the character traits are synonyms and antonyms. Students will be able to explain why their role model demonstrates positive character traits by providing examples through their “my role model writing.” This can be made into a great bulletin board!

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