Lessons tagged with "rewrite"

This number and operations in base ten lesson covers how to rewrite numbers. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are asked to read the number, represent it in dots if needed, and group the dots into groups of ten. Then, they rewrite the number and interpret it in words.

This number sense lesson focuses on converting percents to decimals. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students rewrite the percent as a decimal by moving the decimal point two places to the left and removing the percent symbol. Finally, they interpret their answer. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This writing conventions lesson focuses on using varied sentence openings. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the passage and identify sentences that are repetitive. Then, they vary sentence opening by rewriting repetitive sentences using common sentence openings such as an -ly word, -ing phrase, or prepositional phrase. Finally, they answer questions about the personal style of the author that reflects on other sentence opening options. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.