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Write About an Experience
W.K.3 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
W.K.8W.K.8 With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
This writing strategies lesson focuses on writing about an experience. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, the teacher reads an experience, then asks students to write about a similar experience that happened to them. They can draw a picture of the experience to help them remember. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review.
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Describe a Place
This speaking and listening lesson focuses on describing places and locations. The lesson is intended to be taught as a read-aloud, with Independent Practice and Periodic Reviews to be teacher guided. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.
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Follow Two-Step Directions
This listening and speaking lesson focuses on following two-step directions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will listen to a pair of directions (such as Stand up. Put one hand on your head.), and then they will follow them. Sometimes, they will be asked to circle or mark items. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Guided Practice.
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Describe an Experience
This speaking applications lesson focuses on describing an experience. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, the teacher models a common experience that happens in sequence like washing hands, while focusing on a picture and using sequence words like first, next, last. The students repeat the description as Guided Practice, holding up fingers for each step in the sequence. In addition to the lesson, there are 11 pages of Guided Practice.
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Print Uppercase & Lowercase Letters
This concepts of print lesson requires students to practice the printing of upper and lower-case letters. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. Unlike most EDI lessons, these lessons do not have Independent Practice and Periodic Review for the students to perform individually. Each letter includes a short Concept Development followed by Guided Practice; as a result, each page is labeled with the corresponding letter (e.g., Concept Development: A, Skill Development/Guided Practice: J, etc.). These lessons can be done in any order and are currently arranged in alphabetical order.
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Compare The Number of Objects in Group
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Count Objects (11-20)
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.
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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.