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Use this lesson to teach your students about the characteristics of mammals and birds. Teach them about unique mammals and birds that do not have the characteristics of the average mammal and bird.

Increase your students' knowledge of fractions with this lesson that has them compare fractions with different denominators.

Get your students excited and test their knowledge of comparing decimals with this fun decimal "war" game!

Use this vocabulary-focused lesson to teach your students about area. It can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for Finding the Area of a Rectangle.

Teach your class to develop strong inferencing skills by focusing on clues and hard evidence. In this lesson, students will play a game of “What’s for Breakfast?” to help them link context clues with word meaning.

Teach your students to double two-digit numbers using decomposition as a strategy.

Teach your students to calculate fractions of 100 using a number line model.

Teach your students to round to the hundred thousands place with this straightforward lesson.

Teach your students to look for the repeated words and phrases in a nonfiction text as they pick out important information. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Determining Importance lesson.

Big, bigger, biggest? Teach your students about comparative and superlative adjectives as they make comparisons. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Nonfiction Comprehension: Compare and Contrast lesson.

Teach your students to use skip counting as a strategy to multiply two single-digit factors.

Teach your students to use bar models and multiplication to find a fraction of a whole number.

Tie into what they already know! Use money to teach fractions in this engaging lesson.

Teach your students to multiply fractions by whole numbers in this dynamic hands-on lesson!

Use this lesson to teach your students how the different parts of a brain are responsible for any act they do. This lesson will teach your students how a 3.5 pound organ controls a grown human being!

Teach your students to use partial products as a strategy to multiply multi-digit numbers.

Teach your students to use an area model to solve multiplication problems with mixed numbers.

Teach your students about text clues that will help them read with expression. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Reader's Theater: Read the Script lesson.

Guess what comes next! Teach your students to make a prediction based on textual evidence.

Teach your students to use tape diagrams to solve equations involving whole numbers and fractions.

Teach your students to draw an array using base ten notation to solve multiplication problems with two two-digit factors.

Students journey on a scavenger hunt around the school to put their knowledge of the Five Themes of Geography to the test!

Teach your students to explain details in a text by using declarative sentences. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the Color Coding Nonfiction Text lesson.

Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.

We teach our writers to “show, not tell.” Action verbs are a key component in that process! Use this lesson to teach your students to identify and use action verbs in sentences in order to strengthen their writing with clear description.

What’s the problem? Teach your students to identify the problem and solution in a piece of fiction.

In this lesson, students will gain and use knowledge of expanded fraction form to play a fun card game involving rounding.

Help your students understand the connection between skip counting, multiples, and multiplication with this lesson. Teach it on its own or use it as support to the lesson Clap Counting with Multiples.

Sweet fractions! Teach your students to compare fractions with this sweet lesson using slices of cake.

Teach your students to use number lines as a strategy to multiply two single-digit factors.