All Lessons

Write Words Legibly
This writing strategies lesson focuses on writing words legibly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are guided to read a word, then trace it, then write the word legibly using lines as guides. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review.

Capitalize the First Word of a Sentence
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing the first word of a sentence The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. This lesson practices using uppercase letters as a rule when writing the first word in a sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

Produce Complete Sentences (Oral)
This Language lesson requires students to produce simple sentences using subjects and intransitive verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

Capitalize the Word I
This language lesson focuses on ensuring the pronoun I is capitalized. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

Recognize and Name End Punctuation
This language lesson focuses on recognizing and naming end punctuation. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

Determine the Meaning of Multiple-Meaning Words
This language lesson has students determine the meaning of multiple-meaning words.

Identify and Use Nouns
This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy Program.

Produce Complete Sentences (Writing)
This Language lesson requires students to produce simple sentences using subjects and intransitive verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

Count to 100 By Tens
This Counting and Cardinality lesson practices counting by tens to 100. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. For this lesson, students should already be familiar with counting to 100 by ones. A number chart and groups of ten objects are used to illustrate the concept in this lesson.

Write Numbers From 0 to 20
This Counting and Cardinality lesson practices how to write numbers 0 to 20. Student copy does not have the Independent Practice page. Instead, students will use the provided Whiteboard Insert to practice writing numbers from slides of the PowerPoint (teacher version).

Compare Numbers
This Counting and Cardinality lesson practices comparing two numbers between 1 and 10. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. For this lesson, students must be able to count to ten. It is recommended that the Compare Numbers Flashcards be used after the Skill Development/Guided Practice. This will allow students to quickly compare two numbers, after having learned the skill, eventually leading to fluency.

Identify Which Set Has Less Than
This number sense lesson focuses on identifying which set has less than. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, the students count each set in a pair and write the numbers. Then, they identify which set has less than and explain why. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing items.

Identify Which Set Has More Than
This number sense lesson focuses on identifying which set has more than. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, the students count each set in a pair and write the numbers. Then, they identify which set has more than and explain why. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing items.

Order Numbers
This number sense lesson focuses on ordering numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, the students read a set of three numbers and determine if they are in order. Then, they write the numbers in order and count them out loud to check the order. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing items.

Ask Information Questions
K.CC.5 Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
K.CC.6K.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.
This statistics, data analysis, and probability lesson focuses on asking information questions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, the students look at two sets of pictures. Then, the teacher asks a question about the "data" in the pictures, and the students think of and then ask a similar question to the teacher about the pictures. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Guided Practice modeled on current adaptive testing items.

Count Objects
K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
K.CC.4.AK.CC.4.A When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
K.CC.4.BK.CC.4.B Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
K.CC.4.CK.CC.4.C Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
K.CC.5K.CC.5 Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
This lesson focuses on counting to cardinality by counting objects. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. For this lesson, students will need to be able to write numbers 1-20 (K.CCA.3).

Represent Addition
This Operations and Algebraic Thinking lesson practices representing addition. As a prerequisite, students should be able to count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things (K.CC.5). The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. Manipulatives can be used to represent addition in this lesson any time objects are used in the problems.