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- An idea to teach students about word choice
- An activity to introduce elapsed time
- A reading passage about organisms' traits
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Tina from The Mailbox
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In Other Words
Word choice To introduce your student authors to words to use instead of “said,” read aloud My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco. Direct students to listen for words other than “said” that indicate when a character is speaking. After reading the book, have students share the words they heard as you write them on the board. Next, have each student select a word from the list, copy it onto a paper strip, and use a dictionary to write a more exact definition. Combine the strips on a class poster. If desired, guide students to sort the words into categories, such as “spoken loudly,” “spoken quietly,” and “spoken loudly or quietly.”
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Little by Little
Elapsed time Build on students' understanding of time to five minutes as you lead them toward elapsed-time work. First, have each child cut apart a tagboard copy of the clock face, clock hands, and elapsed-time wheel. Instruct her to place the clock atop the wheel and the hands atop the clock. Help her insert a brad through the layers of paper and fasten it. Share an elapsed-time problem, like the one shown, and direct students to move the clock hands to show the start time. Next, have her move the wheel so the bold start line is next to the minute hand. Then have her find the answer. Lead students to use the start time, interval, and end time to demonstrate the problem on a number line, using the same curved lines on the wheel on the diagram. As students become more familiar with elapsed-time problems, introduce problems that address time to the minute and have them demonstrate their thinking on a number line.
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More Than One Source
Reading informational text, traits
Students learn about inherited and environmental traits with this reading passage.
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