All resources in CAC Spring 2020

Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales

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In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures. They will learn how both types of folktales employ various animals in different ways to portray human strengths and weaknesses and to pass down wisdom from one generation to the next. Use the following lessons to introduce students to world folklore and to explore how folktales convey the perspectives of different world cultures.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Author: Individual Authors

At Home in the Cold: Grades 2-3: Illustrated Book

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This informational text explore adaptations that allow penguins, whales, walruses, seals, and fish to live in the cold water of the Arctic and Southern Oceans. The text is at a reading level appropriate for second through third grade. This version is a full-color pdf file that can be printed, cut, and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

Material Type: Visual Media

Author: Jessica Fries-Gaither

K-W-L Form

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A K-W-L form is a great resource to have students complete to monitor growth. This activity can be used for any subject and any topic. Students will be surprised and amazed to see what they learn all semester. As a teacher, you will have at your disposal the ability to track progress in an alternative manner.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Lindsey Layne

Math Stories

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Solve story problems involving joining, separating, and part-part-whole                scenarios.Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the 2016 Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Pam Forbes, Tina Mazzacane, Kristin Williams, Debra Delozier

Colors in the Night Sky: The Aurora: Grades 2-3: Illustrated Book

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This informational text explains the colorful phenomenon known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) and the southern lights (aurora australis). The text is written at a grade two through three reading level. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

Material Type: Visual Media

Author: Jessica Fries-Gaither

1.OA, NBT The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The students work individually or in pairs. Each student or pair needs: Three ten-frames for each s...

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

1.G Grandfather Tang's Story

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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * A copy of Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert * One set of tangrams for each student (see note in commentary) * A set of tangrams for t...

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

Secret Shape Pictures

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Describing the location of one object relative to another regardless of their positions and orientations in space.Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Pam Forbes, Tina Mazzacane, Kristin Williams, Debra Delozier

K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block: Learning Letters

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Learning Letters is a collection of all of the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block curricular materials related to learning about letter names, sounds, and formation. The contents include the research behind EL Education's approach to teaching letters, Letter Stories (engaging read-alouds, one for each letter of the alphabet and consonant digraph ("ch", "sh", and"th"), upper- and lowercase Keyword Cards (a colorful picture of the animal or object associated with each letter, and Handwriting Sheets (letter formation and handwriting practice sheets). To access this resource, you will need to create a free account for the system on which it resides. This partner uses such data for funding requests to keep their resource growing and up-to-date. Also, these resources are openly-licensed for editing and re-sharing, EXCEPT for certain copyright-protected content (authentic texts, photographs, etc.) within the materials that are from outside sources. This outside content may not be reproduced or distributed (outside the scope of fair use or the EL Education Curriculum Terms of Use) without additional permissions from the content owner. Related materials on EL Education: http://eled.org/writing-rubric-kindergarten http://eled.org/curriculum-map-kindergarten http://eled.org/curriculum-plan-k-2 http://eled.org/guidance-document http://eled.org/required-trade-book-procurement-list http://eled.org/recommended-texts-and-other-resources-list http://eled.org/classroom-protocols http://eled.org/fostering-character http://eled.org/supporting-english-language-learners http://eled.org/curriculum-videos

Material Type: Lesson

Author: EL Education

Sounding Out Activities

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In Sounding Out activities, students take a regular word, such as sat, produce the letter-sound pattern "sssaaat," and blend to produce the word sat. This is a crucial development in learning to read, bringing together skills that students have spent many weeks working on and providing the first excitement of reading unaided. Being able to sound out regular words also provides students with a self-teaching capability: they can decode unaided words they do not yet recognize on sight.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Game, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt, Laurence, et. al.

Fairy Tales Around the World

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As some of the foundational texts for beginning readers, fairy tales are a staple of many classrooms. This lesson allows students to engage with fairy tales from different regions around the world and compare important cultural elements of these stories.

Material Type: Lesson Plan