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March 21, 2017
MATH
- April Professional Learning to share how you are using Box of Facts in your classroom. Please let me know how I can support you with this.
- The book in your Box of Facts kit is a great resource on ways to introduce the strategy using visuals & discussions.
- Reinforce with activities that link concrete to symbolic.
- Practice using games & activities that provide student opportunities to apply & demonstrate their knowledge of the facts.
SOCIAL STUDIES
DBQ CLARIFICATION
The DBQ lessons have been removed from Eduphoria. Let me know how I can support your teams as you collaboratively plan based on the social studies standards outlined in the scope and sequence. In addition, the scope and sequence provides additional resources for planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mcDh-TdEzvIgnEQFAQ3RDHlJzFbh_uF-ye4NV_sazY8/edit?usp=sharing.
ELAR
I just wanted to remind you about this great resource from Lead4ward. It has some amazing strategies to use as 3rd grade, 4th grade, & 5th grade plan your review & testing genre. You can use this across all content areas. It should be easy to use as the first 3 pages list the strategies & implementation suggestions/subjects. Please let me know how I can support you with this.