Counting Coins

Beginning

• Provide students with a bag of coins to refer to as they watch the video.
• Have students refer to the chart that lists the names of coins. Provide a sentence frame for students to share coin names and values:
  • That is a ____ and it is worth ____.

Intermediate

• Ask students to come up to the whiteboard to assist you as you draw the coins and write the values of the coins.
• Encourage students to come up to the whiteboard and help you figure out what coins to use to purchase the items.
• Offer sentence stems to support them as they share their ideas with the rest of the class.

Beginning

• Encourage students to refer to their chart.
• Encourage students to refer to the sentence frame used during explicit instruction to show the amounts.

Intermediate

• Have students share how they know what the coin name and value is, referring to characteristics (adjectives) that describe the coin (e.g. the coin is copper, small, big, silver, etc.)

Beginning

• Have students work in a small, teacher-led group.
• Encourage students to use their bag of coins and chart to complete the worksheet.

Intermediate

• Allow students to work in partnerships.
• Provide students with sentence stems/frames to support discussion.