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Integrated

• Free Verse Poetry Unit - 5th grade - developed by Noor Khan
  • Overview of unit
  • Evaluating fluency
  • Practicing fluency
  • Poetry Café
  • Exploring elements of poetry
  • Poetry pamphlet
  • Writing a reflective journal
  • Researching poems
  • Look, smell, hear, taste and feel it
  • What I want you to focus on and understand
  • Somber and tragic or silly and light?

Literature

• Fairy Tale Unit - 2nd grade - developed by Debra Crooks and Kate Trtan
  • Writing Skills
    • Describe a character (write a descriptive paragraph)
    • Fairy tale letter (letter writing)
    • Quote a character (write a complete sentence) and Rubric
  • Geography Skills
    • Fairy tale passport and Rubric
    • Map skills
  • Characters
    • Add a trait
    • Bio poem pyramid
    • Fairy tale journal - character web
    • Good vs. evil characters
  • Fairy Tales
    • Compare and contrast (two versions of same fairy tale)
    • Fairy tale ads and obituaries
    • Fairy tale chart (elements of a fairy tale)
    • Fairy tale journal - Snow White
    • Fairy tale journal - Jack and the Beanstalk
    • Complete a tale (write a different ending)
    • Fractured fairy tale
    • Compare authors
    • Task rotation (free choice activity)
    • Story map
    • Write a fairy tale
    • Fairy tale folder
    • Present a fairy tale play (to end the unit)

     

   

Writing

• Reading / Writing Connection - 3rd grade - developed by Jenna Tatnall
  • Introduction
  • Standards and matrix
  • Group poster
  • Puzzle: Rearrange a scrambled paragraph
  • Puzzle: Rearrange a scrambled magazine
  • Word square: Vocabulary
  • Non-fiction reading quiz
  • Create a summary: Science magazine article
  • Create a summary: Biography
  • Create a summary: News article
  • Evaluation of a text
  • Paragraph writing
  • Wax museum: Biography presentation
  • News article

• Persuasive and Writing Process Unit - developed by Adam Johnson
  • Immersion reading: Defining characteristics
  • Trade book carousel activity: Defining characteristics
  • Persuasive speech evaluation: Defining characteristics
  • 5 paragraph essay carousel activity: Defining characteristics
  • Persuasive brainstorming web
  • Prewriting: 4 square model
  • Topic/closing sentence evaluation
  • Introduction paragraph evaluation
  • Body paragraph evaluation
  • Conclusion paragraph evaluation
  • Drafting
  • Revising
  • Editing
  • Final draft

   

• Writing Unit - 1st grade - developed by Angela Tressler
  • Writing tasks and rubric

   

• The Six Traits of Writing - 2nd grade - developed by Stacy Feyereisen
  • Introduction
  • Pancakes for Breakfast story writing (organization and ideas)
  • Job description (organization, sentence fluency, and conventions)
  • Character dialogue (voice and ideas)
  • Using describing words (word choice and voice)
  • Tough Boris point of view (word choice and voice)
  • Personification animal story (ideas and organization)
  • Adding details (ideas and sentence fluency)
  • Using editing marks (conventions and organization)
  • Persuasive letter writing (voice, word choice, and organization)
  • Adding transitions and details (sentence fluency, ideas, and conventions)

• Writing a Good Paragraph - 5th grade - developed by Andrea Callahan
  • Content and process standards
  • Recall and organization of facts
  • Exploring the different types of topic sentences
  • Organizing facts and writing a topic sentence
  • Using transitions in writing
  • Good word choices - adjectives
  • Good word choices - verbs
  • Good word choices
  • Telling vs. showing
  • Making a "telling" paragraph a "showing" one
  • Writing paragraphs and self-assessment
  • Peer editing
  • Peer editing for punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
  • And on and on...

     

Reading

• Students' concept of print - (checklist) - K-1st grade - watch video of how to conduct assessment

Phonics

• Kindergarten - developed by Leah Ardolino
  • Oral alphabet assessments and rubric
  • Sound sorts and rubric
  • Playing with words and rubric

Speaking

• Poetry speaking and performance rubric

Listening

• Listening Rubric

ESL (English as a Second Language)

• Celebrating Cultural Diversity Unit - developed by Karen Springer
  • Passport Task and Rubric
  • Reflective journal and Criteria
  • Friendly letter and Rubric
  • Travel poster and Rubric
  • Food wheel
  • Animal poster and Rubric
  • Family story and Rubric
  • Artifact presentation and Rubric
  • Peer review of artifact presentation
  • Autobiography

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