Irregular Word Activities

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Irregular Word Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Game, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt, Laurence, et. al.

Looking at Race and Racial Identity in Children’s Books

This lesson, the second in a series, encourages students to think and talk openly about the concept of beauty, particularly as it overlaps with issues of race and racial identity.

Material Type: Lesson

Common Core Curriculum: Kindergarten ELA: Skills Strand

The Skills Strand teaches the mechanics of reading. Students are taught systematic and explicit phonics instruction as their primary tool for decoding written English. By the end of grade 2, students have learned all of the sound spelling correspondences in the English language and are able to decode written material they encounter. In addition to phonics, students also are taught spelling, grammar, and writing during the Skills Strand. A downloadable story "Kits Hats" with illustrations is provided for instruction. Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Common Core Curriculum: Grade 1 ELA: Skills Strand

The Skills Strand teaches the mechanics of reading. Students are taught systematic and explicit phonics instruction as their primary tool for decoding written English. By the end of grade 2, students have learned all of the sound spelling correspondences in the English language and are able to decode written material they encounter. In addition to phonics, students also are taught spelling, grammar, and writing during the Skills Strand. A downloadable story "Kits Hats" with illustrations is provided for instruction. Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Reading

Co-Teaching Fundamentals

Co-Teaching FundamentalsThis 20-minute module provides foundational information about the practice of co-teaching.  If completed independently, this content can be covered in approximately 20-minutes.  If the module is facilitated using the guide, it may take up to one-hour.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Laurie Kerr

Crossing Boundaries Through Bilingual, Spoken-Word Poetry

Students explore the idea of ńcrossing boundariesî through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Website Planning in a Bilingual Classroom

In this lesson, designed for a heterogeneous group of students that includes English-language learners, students work together to plan a website based on their home knowledge. An introductory lesson outlines the structure and components of simple websites (home page, titles, headings, links). Students take home and complete a bilingual student and family interest survey, then work in groups of four or five to identify common themes among the responses. Each group makes a flow chart to think graphically about the contents of their planned website. Each student keeps a project notebook to record new ideas, summarize group work, and share the project with family members. The teacher can make the planned websites a reality using one of the online website-building platforms in the Resources list.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Lucy K. Spence, Ph.D.

Emergent Bilingual Learning Resources

Resource suggestions to explore and consider as a way to support emergent bilingual students.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson

Author: Jamie Rumage

Spanish For Heritage Speakers

These materials are created to work as a course, combining activities to increase vocabulary, read, learn about Hispanic cultures and differentiate standard Spanish uses from the U.S. variants.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Unit of Study

What Does Text Complexity Mean for English Learners and Language Minority Students?

This paper addresses the implications, for ELLs, of the new standard's requirement that students be able to read and understand complex, informationally dense texts. The authors discuss the types of supports that learners need in order to work with complex texts. They also provide a sample of what academic discourse involves, using an excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. They demonstrate how English learners can be provided with strategies for accessing complex texts, such as closely examining one sentence at a time. The authors argue that instruction must go beyond vocabulary and should begin with an examination of our beliefs about language, literacy and learning.

Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Charles j. Fillmore, Lily Wong Fillmore

Amazing Classrooms: Spanish Immersion

The Spanish Language Immersion School is a public school with dedicated educators and committed parents who are creating an extraordinary experience for kids from K to Grade 5. Students arrive speaking English as their dominant language. They leave fluent in Spanish, but also filled with knowledge about various cultures, practiced in diversity, and possessing real skills that give them an educational and career advantage.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Valorando y Conectando las practices culturales de hogar con un programa para ninos de temprana edad

Please see article (in Spanish)

Material Type: Reading

Author: Child Development

Inquiry Project

Broad problem-based learning exercise focusing on the advantages of learning a new language.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Elena Duran

Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners

Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: Christine Kalemba

Statistics

A general statistics course, which includes understanding data, measures of central tendency, measures of variation, binomial distributions, normal distributions, correlation and regression, probability and sampling distributions, Central Limit Theorem, confidence intervals, estimates of population parameters and hypothesis testing.  Interpretation and data analysis are emphasized. PREREQUISITES: A grade of C or better in MAT 100 (Intermediate Algebra) or MAT 120 (Math Modeling for Liberal Arts) and placement above or successful completion of ENG 060 (Preparations for College Reading III).  A student needs a thorough knowledge of Algebra, good reading skills and familiarity with the graphing calculator before entering this course.

Material Type: Module

Author: Jordana Shaw

Learning Objectives for Introductory Statistics

This text document lists detailed learning objectives for introductory statistics courses. Learning objectives are brief, clear statements of what learners will be able to perform at the end of a course.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Jeff Thompson, Pam Arroway, Roger Woodard, North Carolina State University

Practice Tests for Probability and Statistics

These practice tests from MIT OpenCourseWare cover topics in the Introductory Probability and Statistics course. They were originally written by Professors Jeremy Orloff and Jonathan Bloom, and adapted by the team at OpenStax CreatorFest. The files include both assessments and solutions.

Material Type: Assessment

Author: OpenStax, Rice University

Statistics Project: Sampling, Standard Deviation & Z-Scores

In this statistics project, students will begin by sampling a population to answer their own designed question.  They will then use their sample to graph, find the mean and standard deviation, and illustrate their understanding of normal distribution.  They will then manipulate their data to make it "normal" and, after finding new samples, analyze the associated z-score and percents of that new data.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Melissa Hesterman

AP Statistics: Describing Relationships between Variables (The Candy Grab Activity)

THis is an activity that can be used to introduce Linear Regression or the relationship between two numerical variables.  Studetns will do an activity, make graphs, and answer questions about the relationship between hand span and the number of candies grabbed.  Then they will be asked to do an exploration on their own.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Cara Kern

Statistics and the internet: Is the internet trustworthy?

Students will explore the overarching question, is the internet trustworthy?, while expanding their knowledge of statistics and comparing data sets.  They will compare two data sets as well as determine the accuracy or bias of data representations shown on the internet. Students will then have the opportunity to apply their knowledge while creating their own visual representations for data they personally collected regarding the trustworthiness of the internet.  The module concludes with a peer showcase and the post-assessment.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Blended Learning Teacher Practice Network