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Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1- Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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Lesson Plan: Exploring Characters

Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 - Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in...

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Teaching in Slow Motion

Japanese baseball legend, Tetsuharu Kawakami, dedicated himself to Zen Buddhism and was known for spending hours meditating and honing his...

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Lesson Plan: Poetry Theme

Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2- Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

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Lesson Plan: Inferences- Wizard of Oz

Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1- Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when...

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Super Soft Skill Training For Students With Disabilities

We’ve known for some time that students with emotional or developmental challenges often need to have training in “soft skills”, but new...

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Lesson Plan: Integrating Information- Planting a Tree

Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.9- Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject...

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Lesson Plan: Mythology

Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude...

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Lesson Plan: Poems vs Drama

Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5- Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of...

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Transition Time - Any Move To A New Grade Is A Challenge

The end of a school year and the beginning of another are exciting times in schools and classrooms, but increasingly researchers are finding they are...

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Turning Points: One Teacher’s Timeline

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