The activities in this lesson provide a foundation for using nonfiction resources for developing and answering questions about gathered information. Using a wide variety of nonfiction literature, students learn to sort and categorize books to begin the information-gathering process. Then, working with partners and groups, using pictures and text, students are guided through the process of gathering information, asking clarifying questions, and then enhancing the information with additional details. Students complete the lesson by collaboratively making “Question and Answer” books for the classroom library. This is a high-interest foundation builder for using nonfiction literature in research as well as for pleasure reading

This mini unit walks students through the question/discovery process of nonfiction literature.  The first lesson encourages students to wonder while reading.  Then students research to find the answers to their questions.  They explore ways to show/write their new learning.  As a class the kids work to publish 1 or 2 classroom books on the research topic.  This is a great way to introduce the nonfiction unit and then let each student write thier own question book based on the process they used with the class book.

Junie B., as she insists on being called, is an opinionated, lively, character in Barbara Park's series of books, and she is sure to delight primary students. In this unit, the teacher reads aloud selections from Junie B., First Grader (at last!). Students discuss the text with a partner and then individually compose sentences about key events from the story. Each student also creates and adds items to a mystery box, or a box that holds items or pictures referenced in the story. After students have listened to the entire story, they use their mystery boxes to retell the story to a classmate. As a culminating activity, students use the mystery boxes and the sentences they composed to make a related stapleless book about the story.

This is a three minute video of Monique LaCour's elementary classroom in Oakland, CA.  The objective of the lesson is to support academic conversations utilizing sentence frames.  It will look at why sentence frames are an effective strategy for English Language Learners.  It illustrates how sentence frames can empower students and make learning come to life.

Students will have exposure to basic Menominee Language words, memorize and know the meaning of the words as well as collaborating with others through small-group activities to practice the Menominee Words.

CESA #1 EL OER Project

This presentation introduces opinions, vocabulary to express opinions, explaining and organizing reasons to support opinions and partner practice sharing opinions.

This lesson will be used in conjunction with Code.org's Course 1 Curriculum - https://studio.code.org/s/course1. For the class period after completing Lesson 5 - Maze: Debugging, students will use Wonder Workshop's Dash robots in groups to create and debug their Dash robot from one place to another in a preassigned part of the classroom using the Blockly app on their iPads.

Students will learn that they need to be safe online, similar to how they need to keep themselves safe in real life.  The lesson will help them figure out what websites are safe for them to visit and when they need to talk to an adult before accessing a site.  They will also explore what information is safe to publish online and which is not.