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Instructional Aides (Graphic Organizers and Manipulatives)

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YAY MATH! Algebra Geometry Math Videos Online. Www.curriculumassociates.com/professional-development/topics/Struggling-Readers/extras/L2 S4-Main Idea Details.pdf. Summarizing. Strategies for Reading ComprehensionSummarizing What Is Summarizing?

Summarizing

Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. Webster's calls a summary the "general idea in brief form"; it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions. What Are We Doing When We Summarize? We strip away the extra verbiage and extraneous examples. When You Ask Your Students to Summarize, What Usually Happens? They write down everything they write down next to nothing they give me complete sentences they write way too much they don't write enough they copy word for word What Did You Want Them To Do?

Pull out main ideas focus on key details use key words and phrases break down the larger ideas write only enough to convey the gist take succinct but complete notes. Reading Strategies for Social Studies. Think, Pair, Share. What is Think, Pair, Share?

Think, Pair, Share

Think-Pair-Share is a strategy designed to provide students with "food for thought" on a given topics enabling them to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another student. It is a learning strategy developed by Lyman and associates to encourage student classroom participation. Rather than using a basic recitation method in which a teacher poses a question and one student offers a response, Think-Pair-Share encourages a high degree of pupil response and can help keep students on task.

What is its purpose? Providing "think time" increases quality of student responses. How can I do it? With students seated in teams of 4, have them number them from 1 to 4. Teachers may also ask students to write or diagram their responses while doing the Think-Pair-Share activity. Uses for think, pair, share. Japanese Multiplication Method.

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The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad

Finding education apps is only a bit more challenging. Finding free education apps is also possible. Finding free education apps worth downloading is a different story entirely. The following is our list for the 55 best apps for learning we can find. Some are formal learning–math drilling and phonics, for example–while others are RSS readers, social media platforms, and the like.

Divide fractions by fractions: using models. Character Organizers Worksheets. Portfolio/artifacts/content/autism.pdf. CHARACTER GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS - CHARACTER CREATOR CLUB. Graphic Organizer Worksheets. Advertisement.

Graphic Organizer Worksheets

EnchantedLearning.com is a user-supported site. As a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages.Click here to learn more. (Already a member? Click here.) Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers (some of which are also called concept maps, entity relationship charts, and mind maps) are a pictorial way of constructing knowledge and organizing information.

Increasing Understanding by Creating Graphic Organizers: The process of converting a mass of data/information/ideas into a graphic map gives the student an increased understanding and insight into the topic at hand. The creation of graphic organizers also helps the student generate ideas as they develop and note their thoughts visually. Uses of Graphic Organizers: Graphic organizers can be used to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.

Add fractions with different denominators using fraction bars. Www.glencoe.com/mhlnob/assets/00057501/htm/00057934/00057934.swf. Free Fraction Strips Template. Thanks to technology, we can easily create almost anything we can conceive of.

Free Fraction Strips Template

From gizmos to simple teacher-created resources, yes, teachers can make some really top-notch stuff! If I can do it, then you can too. See the fraction strips on the left? To make them, all I needed was a printer, assorted colors of card stock paper and regular white paper, a pair of scissors or a guillotine, clear tape, clear adhesive paper (or laminating machine) and my Free Fraction Strips Template. g Just click here to download from TPT or here to download from TeachersNotebook.

If you are short on time, I have ready-made color coded Fraction Strips for Unit Fractions, Percents and Decimals. MULTIPLICATION & MULTIPLICATION TABLES. Yah, I know it looks like times tables printed the wrong way, but, it provides multiples of numbers, and that's what you need.

MULTIPLICATION & MULTIPLICATION TABLES

Click on the graphic at the left then use your browser to print two copies. Multiple strips and fraction bars are a means of making the ideas of multiple, equivalent fractions, and the addition or subtraction of fractions more concrete. Experiment digitally with these manipulatives. See strips.xls. Make Strips After printing the two copies of the graphic above, you need to cut out strips. Each strip represents the multiples of the first number on the strip. Shown just below are the 3s strip and the 5s strip. The multiples of 3 (numbers 3 through 45) are on one stnp. Activity: Finding Common Multiples To find the multiples of two or more whole numbers from 1 to 13 (since you have 13 different strips), select the appropriate strips and compare the numbers on each strip to find common multiples.