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A complete literature guide fro each chapter on the book 'Danger in the Desert' by Terri Fields. Guide includes vocabulary, activities, and questions for each chapter. Great for common core implementation. This is a PDF & SMART notebook document that you print for students as well as teach with on the smart board or projector.

This Smart Board Lesson introduces fractions to students using pictures, words, and numbers. It includes a quiz that can be used with or without Smart Responders. There is also an optional activity where students will use bags of Unifix cubes to determine the fraction of a set.

After teaching and helping students understanding what a reasonable estimate is and why we need to make reasonable estimates. This reasonable estimates fill-a-frame activity will help reinforce the concept.

Making Combinations: Making Tree Diagrams & Organized ListsSmart Board lesson where you make all possible combinations by making tree diagrams and/or organized lists.

'Danger in the Desert' test you can print for students and use for Smart Responders & Smart Board. This test covers chapters 1-5, it includes 20 questions including comprehension, vocabulary covered in literature guide, and text-based written responses. The last slide includes support for written responses for teaching purposes. This test supports the rigor of common core! Look for chapters 6-10 and 11-15 tests on my page.

2-Day Smart Board lesson on vertex-edge graphs. Students color the least amount of colors with no common edges sharing the same color. Print lesson for students to do with you.

This Smart Board lesson teaches students how to break numbers apart and add by place value. This supports students' number sense and deepens their understanding of different addition strategies. Support common core instruction.

Smart Board Lesson that teaches students how to compare fractions (i.e. greater than, less than, or equal to) using words, pictures, and numbers. Print out for students to follow along interactively.

'Danger in the Desert' test you can print for students and use for Smart Responders & Smart Board. This test covers chapters 6-10, it includes 20 questions including comprehension, vocabulary covered in literature guide, and text-based written responses. The last slide includes support for written responses for teaching purposes. This test supports the rigor of common core! Look for chapters 1-5 and 11-15 tests on my page.

Quick Smart Board Lesson that introduce the terms associated with rounding, steps to round, and practice.

Smart Board lesson that shows how to add by place value using manipulatives.

5 lists of high-frequency words for third graders to study and practice.

Use a tree diagram to make an organized list of all of the possible combinations.

In this Smart Board logic math lesson. Student analyze a change and draw conclusions based on the information they have. Includes a slide that can be printed as independent practice.

Students cut and sort shapes. Then they write their justification for the sort below.

Track students reading at home with this weekly reading log.

Estimation word problems for 2-4th grade students.