A highly scaffolded biography unit for Grade 5 ELL students at the entering level, focusing on the life of Steve Irwin with simplified sentence frames, visual supports, and targeted vocabulary.
A lesson focused on location and category suffixes (-ary, -ery, -ory). Students analyze how these suffixes form nouns and adjectives related to places, groups, and qualities.
A lesson focused on abstract suffixes (-ment, -less, -ness). Students explore how these suffixes form nouns and adjectives related to states, qualities, and actions.
An intermediate-level lesson on identifying and using context clues (IDEAS: Inference, Definition, Example, Antonym, Synonym) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Includes a detailed lesson plan, instructional slides, student reference sheet, practice worksheet, and assessment.
Students draft the rising action and climax of their narrative, focusing on describing the earthquake using scientific terminology for seismic waves and ground motion.
A lesson focused on agentive suffixes (-er, -or, -ian, -ist). Students analyze how these suffixes identify people who perform specific actions or hold certain roles.
A spelling assessment for Unit 10 Lesson 5 featuring 21 words including 'occupy', 'identify', and 'Powhatan'. Covers double consonants, multisyllabic words, proper nouns, and common vowel teams.
Students learn to craft a compelling narrative introduction that establishes a vivid setting and introduces characters while seamlessly weaving in scientific concepts about tectonic plate collisions and earthquake activity.
A lesson focused on comparative and superlative suffixes (-er, -est, -ier, -iest). Students explore how these suffixes change adjectives to compare two or more things.
Students learn to distinguish between literary and informational texts by examining purpose, structure, and language features. This lesson uses a detective theme to help students investigate the 'DNA' of different text types.
A focused lesson on mastering the 5th Grade NYS ELA short-response format for drawing conclusions using text evidence.