All Lessons

This writing conventions lesson focuses on combining sentences with participial phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students combine sentences by inserting a participial phrase and comma in the correct place. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying homographs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read three sentences that use the homograph with different meanings. Then, they read two possible meanings and identify context clues to help explain which meaning fits with which sentence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on explaining the use of figurative language. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify instances of figurative language and then use context clues to help them interpret the meaning of the phrase. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This Common Core language lesson covers how to avoid shift errors in verb tense, especially in the compound and complex sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to match the verb tense to the time a verb’s action takes place. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This language lesson covers how to form and use perfect tense verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a pair of sentences, identify the verbs, and then identify which sentence contains the perfect tense verb.

This Common Core language lesson teaches students how to recognize and interpret frequently used idioms. This lesson is very impactful for English learners or ELD students. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students look at the literal and figurative meanings of the idioms side-by-side. Then in the activity they use the context of the text to interpret the meaning of idioms. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This Common Core language lesson teaches students how to interpret figurative language including similes and metaphors. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify a simile or metaphor in the context of a paragraph and how to use the context of the text to explain the meaning of the figurative language. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.

This Language lesson has students correctly use commas to separate different items in a sentence. Students will both insert commas where necessary and explain the reason that a comma is necessary there. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of independent practice and review.

This algebra and functions lesson focuses on using parentheses in expressions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students write the given expression twice. Then, they insert parentheses around different locations of the expression and evaluate each expression to determine which is correct. Finally, students interpret their answer and read aloud. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and Periodic Reviews with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This number sense lesson focuses on determining the prime factorization of numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students determine the prime factorization of the number using a factorization tree, factoring all composite numbers until they are prime. Finally, they write the prime factorization using exponents if necessary and checking and interpreting the answer. In addition to the lesson, there are twelve pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This number and operations in base ten lesson teaches students how to use the relationship between division and multiplication to solve division problems. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students rewrite division problems as multiplication problems as a strategy to help find quotients. This lesson should be considered an initial first step to more complex division problems. By using multiples of 10 and 100, students are able to see the structure of what is going on without getting distracted by difficult calculation.

This number sense lesson focuses on adding decimal numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the decimal numbers being added, is necessary. Then, they line up the decimal numbers by place value, making the decimal points line up. Finally, they add the decimal numbers, line up the decimal point in the sum, and interpret the sum. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and Periodic Review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items and six flashcards on lining up the decimal numbers.