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Introduce the idea of equivalent fractions with this guided exploration using pattern blocks. Students are asked to explore, construct meaning, and generalize to novel situations about equivalent fractions.

I used this organizer with my class during our immigration unit; students were asked to interview their parents about their family migration history. When did they come to the US? What pushes/pulls influenced the move?

Peer editing and writers' clubs can be powerful tools within the framework of your Writing Workshop. Students will employ higher order thinking skills like evaluation and analysis as they read and discuss one another's work. But how do we organize these routines? Use these graphic organizers, procedural handouts, and checklists to help facilitate. You'll have students living and breathing the writing process!

Buddy Reading Students reading and discussing literature in pairs can be a really worthwhile experience -- but how to keep them on task and organized? These files help to model expectations and track progress! Students can use these sample responses and graphic organizers as models for their own work, and several fun projects (organized by multiple intelligence) are included for assessment.

Students will study the genre of persuasive writing through movie reviews. Students will analyze the components of these writing genre, give support for their thinking, and organize their writing like the model texts. Fits nicely into readers' and writers' workshop, and hits your state benchmarks for writing and analyzing literature. My students loved the authenticity of this unit -- they were able to be like real movie reviewers and learn how to make their arguments more persuasive through su

Practice computation and fluency with operations using decimals (including addition and multiplication) as students calculate the timecards for several different office employees. Students also practice elapsed time. **Tiered and Differentiated** Least complex: Dwight Average complexity: Pam & Jim Most complex: Kevin

This problem -- about Princess Pufferfish's castle -- explores area of irregular shapes using a grid. Students break the larger shape apart into familiar rectangles, parallelograms and triangles. The formulas are also given at the top for students that are generalizing to these. This fits in well with the Everyday Math - 4th grade - curriculum.

Students act as "reading detectives" as they analyze characters, using lots of supporting evidence (clues) to make their case.

Students can fill out this 'passport' to show how many of the penguin-themed multiplication review pages they have completed. Quick review with problem solving before an assessment.

In this applied practice of computational skills, students pretend they have recently won $1,000 and will donate much of it to children at a local homeless children. Students select toys for purchase, tally their budget using a graphic organizer, and have fun! Includes the graphic organizer and two pages of sample items for students to purchase.

Students can complete this "Totally 10" differentiated extension when they have finished other classwork. Students earn 1 point for each of the easier/lower cognitive level problems, with harder/higher level thinking problems earning them more points. Students may complete whatever problems they wish to earn 10 points. You may want to encourage higher students to earn more points. (Some struggling students may be asked to complete only 6 - 8 points, depending on their readiness level.)

Quick graphic organizer that reminds students of the 6 traits of writing (ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions) and asks them to detail positive comments and constructive criticism.