This is a lesson using Digital Age Skills in Language Arts.
This is a lesson using Digital Age Skills in Language Arts. The lesson refers to a documentary about Rosa Parks. This lesson could be taught using any documentary as an anchor text. The outcome of the lesson is for students to produce a documentary of their own based on a hero in their lives.
This is a lesson using Digital Age Skills in Digital Citizenship.
This is a lesson using Digital Age Skills in Digital Citizenship and Web Creation
The Digital Planning Templates, or task cards, are extensive, but that is by design. They will help the user internalize the purpose and flow of the curriculum over weeks and months to understand the backwards design, to feel fully prepared to teach the texts, and to see how the Labs and ALL Block deepen student learning and provide additional time to practice important skills.
The resources shared here align to the Virgin Islands Department of Education State Literacy Plan. With a focus on literacy as a shared responsibilty, these customized roadmaps offer strategies for integrating literacy in Mathematics, Science, History, the Arts, and the Health & Phyiscal Education classrooms.
This poem describes the differences that exist between two people.
Read the poem aloud and focus your attention on the way the author describes the differences between two people.
In this activity, students will test whether the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs.
In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity is to get students to understand the strength and resilience of the heart.
Watch a video of a first grader reading correctly, smoothly, and at a natural speed.
Watch a video of a second grader fluently reading. She reads smoothly, at a natural speed, and with expression.
Watch this video to discover if your 1st grader 'reads to learn'.
Watch this video to determine if your 1st grader shows understanding when read.
Watch this video to discover if your 2nd grader 'reads to learn'.
Watch a video of a third grader fluently reading. She reads smoothly, at a natural speed, and with expression.
This video helps parents determine if their third grader understands what he reads.
Watch a video of a kindergarten student fluently reading, and rereading to more accurately read punctuation.
This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner is on track in reading.
This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner is learning from what they are reading.
This video helps parents determine if their kindergartner reader has great understanding.