At Tier 2, schools provide small group, standardized academic, social, emotional, and behavioral supports using validated intervention programs. Use this guide to determine if your Tier 2 program is on the right track.
In this unit, students will understand where “fake news” comes from, why it exists and how they can think like fact checkers to become fluent consumers, evaluators, and creators of information. They will apply this knowledge by selecting a controversial topic to evaluate, synthesize, and analyze all aspects before sharing with a local audience.
In this lesson students will listen and match sounds ... either rhyming sounds, beginning sounds, ending sounds or vowel sounds.
While reading the story "Seven Fat Cats", students will listen and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel.)
The focus of this lesson is to provide an opportunity for children to develop oral language skills and to record their oral language to share with others.
This tool is used for teachers to understand what the students are getting out of their learning by recording three things they learned, two questions and one main idea.
lesson plan for a student research project on animals
Google Docs is a great word processor, but is much more than just that. Although we can certainly use it to type up a report, take notes, or write a story, we can also get creative with the features and functions built into the program to make some fun learning activities.
Recently I did a video training webinar where I took a look at four creative ways to use regular Google Docs features in new fun ways to practice and develop literacy skills. These include:
The highlighting tool for the activity "Improve Reading Comprehension with Google Docs Black Out"
The special characters tool for the activity "Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs"
The word count tool for the activity "Have Students Write Better by Writing Less with Google Docs"
The header tool and hyperlink tool for the activity "Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs"
See below for the full 1-hour training video, as well as resources, ideas, and templates for each of the four activities.
Session Resources
Session Agenda - Google Docs link
Training Video (1 hour)
1) Improve Reading Comprehension with Docs Black Out
Description: In this activity students use the highlighter tool to black out any text that is not critical, leaving behind just the main ideas.
Resources: For full details and resources for doing this activity, see my original blog post "Improve Reading Comprehension with Google Docs Black Out"
Below is the portion of the training video that covers this specific activity:
2) Emoji Learning Activities
Description: In this activity students use special characters to insert emojis to summarize stories, write creatively, and explore character emotions.
Resources: For full details and resources for doing this activity, see my original blog post "5 Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs"
Below is the portion of the training video that covers this specific activity:
3) Have Students Write Better by Writing Less
Description: In this activity students use the word count tool to write within a character limit or word limit.
Resources: For full details and resources for doing this activity, see my original blog post "Have Students Write Better by Writing Less with Google Docs"
Below is the portion of the training video that covers this specific activity:
4) Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
Description: In this activity students use headings and hyperlinks to create interactive stories in Google Docs.
Resources: For full details and resources for doing this activity, see my original blog post "Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs"
Below is the portion of the training video that covers this specific activity:
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This unit includes a combination of fourth grade writing and social studies standards. It focuses on research and public discourse.
This infographic depicts the five components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency and vocabulary all build up to reading comprehension, which is the goal of reading.
Al igual que hemos aprendido qué es la dislexia a través de la investigación empírica, también hemos llegado a comprender lo que no es. Un análisis más detallado de lo que hemos aprendido ayuda a disipar mitos y malentendidos frecuentes sobre la dislexia. A continuación, se muestran seis mitos y conceptos erróneos frecuentes sobre la dislexia, seguidos de la realidad que hemos llegado a comprender sobre ella a través de la investigación empírica.
6 Realidades de la dislexia y las necesidades de las personas con dislexia
Students will learn the components of an informational essay. Through modeling, mini-lessons and multiple opportunities for practice and feedback, students will go through the writing process to produce an informational essay on the topic of their choice.
This unit addresses four 6th grade reading standards taught throughout the course of a trimester. These lessons are designed to be taught one day a week, while the other days in the trimester are focused on writing units. This unit is designed to be co-taught with a general education and special education teacher, but can be easily adapted if only one teacher is present.
Students will learn the components of a Narrative writing. Through mini-lessons (Ex: dialogue, story elements, figurative language, good introductions,genre study, etc.), daily writing and revising, students will go through the writing process to produce a narrative writing on a topic of their choice.
A lesson about online communication using a simulation of a Twitter conversation in a "telephone game" style.
This is an online module created for the 3rd Grade of the Junior High School. The topic of the lesson is the "7 Wonders of the World", and its main emphasis is placed on the Listening comprehension skills practice.
7th Grade Historical Literacy consists of two 43 minute class periods. Writing is one 43 minute block and reading is another. The teacher has picked themes based on social studies standards, and a read-aloud novel based on social studies serves as the mentor text for writing and reading skills. More social studies content is addressed in reading through teaching nonfiction reading skills and discussion. Standards reflect CCSS ELA, Reading, and Social Studies Standards.
The 7th grade poetry unit gives an in depth approach to poetry involving the four strands within the core. I've included worksheets, rubrics, and answers keys where applicable. I have also used literature examples from the core.
This 8th grade unit highlights main events of the Civil Rights Movement and navigates to the life of Jackie Robinson and watching the movie 42.