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Tag Archives: 6th
Document Based Questions—Support and Materials
Many of you may already be using Document Based Questions in your 6th grade classroom but if you are not, it is an excellent resource to consider. DBQs reinforce important Common Core outcomes including building content knowledge with rich non-fiction; … Continue reading
Posted in Social Studies
Tagged 6th, CCSS, Common Core, DBQ, Document Based Questions, History, Social Studies, video, world history
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New Resources at www.63000resources.com
A number of new links were added to http://www.63000resources.com including: Free K-8 passages by reading level (here) Common Core Implementation Guide for School-Level Leaders from the Aspen Institute (here) Graphic organizer to practice textual evidence (here) K-5 Writing Rubrics (here) … Continue reading
Posted in Writing to Sources
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, Kindergarten, passages, reading, rubrics, writing
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Teaching Annotation
Annotation seems to be a popular subject judging from the email I received asking for direction with this instructional approach. The following might help. In an article that appeared in The Reading Teacher, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey describe a … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading, Text-Dependent Questions
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, annotating, annotations, CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, Kindergarten, scope and sequence, text-dependent questions
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‘How to Annotate’
A popular request from the Instructional Practice Guide session were the annotations posters featured in the intermediate grade video (here). Although we do not have copies of the posters, we did capture images of the posters and have posted them … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, alignment, annotating, annotations, CCSS, Common Core, Kindergarten
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More Social Studies Close Reading Examples Added
Our Social Studies Coordinators have added an additional 6th Grade Close Reading Folder to Edmodo. Presently, it includes Close Readings on Hammurabi’s Code, Spartan Families, and the Iliad. Teachers will be adding close readings to this folder throughout the school … Continue reading
Posted in Social Studies
Tagged 10th, 11th, 12th, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, Exemplars, Nevada history, Social Studies, units
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Supplements for the Close Reading Exemplar: President’s Message
Cheralyn Faber, a 3rd grade teacher in the Moraga School District, created several supplements to go with the close reading exemplar, The President’s Message. Cheralyn has generously shared the materials and you can find them in the links below. Graphic … Continue reading
Nevada CRT Practice on Edmodo
If you have been looking for the Standard of the Week resource, you can find it on Edmodo using code krdoxd. (New Edmodo users can access it using these directions.) Please note, the resource is matched to parts of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, CRT, Nevada, practice, State Test
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Exemplar Tab Added
In an effort to make it easier for visitors to find the close reading exemplars we’ve been using, you can now find them in the page’s frame. Simply click on exemplar (here) or in the frame above to see what … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading, Common Core State Standards
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Close Reading Exemplar, Kindergarten, PreK
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Core Task Project 