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Just in Time for “Skills Review.”

Also known as Test Prep, but hey, who’s checking anyway. I don’t know about your school, but ours is hunkering down and cramming all the review they can into these last 15 or so instructional days. Here are a few Power Point Presentations I use to review content with students. While I’m the first to [...]

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Language Arts Collaboration: Academic Vocabulary

Our school is focusing on developing student academic vocabulary: making sure students understand the academic langauge that is often used in standardized testing, as well as in preparation for high schoo and beyond.  This may sound simple, but we’re talking about some hard words here.  ”Analyze the characterization,” and “Compare the two passages in terms of [...]

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Science Collaboration

Last week 6th grade science classes spent two days researching minerals. Sounds like a boring project, I know. I attempted to create an assignent accesible enought for everyone to complete it, but while still reinforcing fundaental research, reading, and writing skills. Lesson plan, resources, and worksheet are included.

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