Common Core Companion: Booster Lessons, Grades 3-5

You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in hundreds of places-but none of them will do for students what the ones in this book do. What's the magic bullet? Potent integration.In this follow-up to her Common Core Companion, Grades 3-5, Leslie Blauman provides an ample supply of connected lessons you can use as booster shots when your students need a good dose of integrated reading and writing instruction. The 50+ lessons are divided into five learning sequences that span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to a process that often overwhelms teachers and coaches alike. Follow each sequence and week by week, you ll build the instructional potency to help students achieve a year s worth of growth as you integrate: 1. Reading Craft and Structure with Opinion Writing2. Opinion Writing with Evaluating Argument in Informational Text3. Narrative Writing with Craft and Structure (words, phrases, key ideas, setting, character, and events)4. Informative/Explanatory Text Writing with Reading for Key Ideas5. Research to Build and Present Knowledge with Integration of Knowledge and Ideas in ReadingNeed a great kickoff to a unit of study or review/intervention lessons toward the end of a unit? Leslie s booster lessons are eminently "e;dippable."e; Or use her book and its companion website as a planner for deeper, longer-term instructional design. The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades 3-5, is the resource you ll turn to again and again for various purposes throughout the year.