Danielle Tansits

This year I will be using the book Total Participation Techniques to increase higher order thinking and partipication in my classroom. This being said, I used their methods in my lesson plans for the first two weeks to create rules and having students find their strengths and make long term goals. I teach 4th grade in inner city Philadelphia and turning typically negative behaviors into strengths is my goal for this year. I used the book From Rage to Hope by Crystal Kuyendall for some of my ide

The lesson plans are a week long plan to teach finding key words in multiplication and division word problems. The focus is determining which words are in the problem that indicate which operation to use and practice multiplying and dividing. There are guided practice word problems for the entire week along with worksheets to be used for independent practice. There's also a cut and paste operations match in which students match the operation with the word problem.

Lesson plans used for determing factors and multiples. Includes five worksheets and one quiz.l

I attached basic lesson plans that match with the materials for teaching function tables and patterns. I use the following rule while teaching: Using a function table, find the differences between the in and out numbers. If they are the same, it’s an addition or subtraction rule. If they differences are different, it’s a multiplication or division rule.

Using two manila folders taped together, I created writing workstations. In an effort to create more wallspace and have information for students to use directly infront of them, I taped all these papers inside of their workstations. The pages include a full page of character traits separated into categories, an editor's check list, a page of synonyms for 15 commonly used words (good, bad, nice, etc.). a graphic for the writing process and editing marks, 4-square writing templates, and a list of

These word problems use different key words found in multiplication problems used in PA state tests.

One piece of Core Curr. include "decomposing fractions." This is a term I never used before. I included this sheet at the end of my week's lesson on adding and subtracting fractions. It's mostly to familiarize them with the language.

Self-explanatory. Worksheet on multiplying whole numbers and fractions word problems.

I use this cut and paste worksheet to teach prime or composite numbers. Students cut out the number, paste it in the "number' box and create a factor rainbow for the number. This helps the student determine whether the number is prime or composite. It could be used as a template without the cut and paste as well.

These questions are created to mimic state testing questions using factors and multiples

Basic algebraic variables worksheet. Students need to find the value of each variable and write expressions using variable.

This is a supplment used in my Introducing Rules lesson plans.

This is a supplement used for my Introducing Rules lesson plans.

To be used with the lesson plans Introducing Rules from my store.

This is a supplement to my Introducing Rules lesson plans.

This is a supplement to my Introducing Rules lesson plans.