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Hi Teacher,
Here are a few new ideas for your lesson plans.
- An activity that encourages students to ask and answer questions about a story
- A center to reinforce addition skills
- A simple organizer to help students plan and write stories
Happy teaching!
Tina from The Mailbox
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Inquiring minds
Ask and answer questions
Use this ongoing idea with read-alouds or books that students read on their own. Give each student a small spiral-bound notebook or a blank booklet. Ask her to write “[Name]'s Reading Journal" on the front cover. At the beginning of a reading session, give each child a card programmed with a question word (who, what, when, why, or how). Instruct her to write in her journal a book-related question that contains the word. At the end of the reading session, ask her to write a response to the question, either writing the answer or sharing relevant ideas if the reading does not provide an answer.
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Computation Cards
Addition
At this easy-to-prepare center, two-digit addition is in the cards! Stock a center with paper, a calculator, and a deck of playing cards (tens and face cards removed). A student takes four cards and arranges them faceup in two rows as shown. Using any aces as ones, he copies the digits onto a sheet of paper to create an addition problem. He solves the problem and uses the calculator to check his answer. Then he places the cards in a discard pile. He repeats the activity as time allows, reshuffling the cards as needed. To create a more challenging center, have each student use six cards at a time to practice three-digit addition.
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Before, During, and After
Planning and writing
Help students plan and write stories with this simple organizer. Each child trifolds a large sheet of light-colored construction paper and labels the sections “Before,” “During,” and “After.” He also labels each section “Setting:” “Time:” “Place:” “Who is there?” and “What is happening?” as shown. In the middle section, he glues a picture from a magazine and writes a brief description of what is happening in the picture. He completes the remainder of the organizer with information about what happened before and after the picture was taken. Finally, the child writes his story’s title on the outside of the organizer and writes the complete story on another sheet of paper.
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