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Growth Mindset: Reframe the Thought
Students read a short story about learning a hard skill, match fixed-mindset thoughts to growth-minded reframes, and write a reframe plus a note to their future selves.
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Honey Bees at Work: Read, Check and Write in Chunks
Students learn four key words, read a short article in three chunks with a check after each, fill in a main-idea organizer, and write using sentence frames.
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Map Skills: Directions Around Town
Students use a grid map of a town to find places, follow direction steps with compass directions, and write their own directions.
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Menu Math: Order, Total and Change
Students read a café menu, add prices, find change, compare costs, and plan an order within a budget.
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Number Line Jumps and Arrays
Students use number line jumps to add and subtract, track temperature changes above and below zero, and count objects in arrays to build multiplication fluency.
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Outlining Practice: The Rush Hour Puzzle
Students read an original passage about traffic, complete a Roman-numeral outline, and then write an outline of their own from a short paragraph.
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Parts of a Book: Book Detective
Students use sample book pages (title page, copyright page, table of contents, glossary and index) to answer questions and learn what each part of a book is for.
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Plan Jordan’s Week: Build a Realistic Homework Schedule
Students read a sample student’s busy week, add up task times, and build a day-by-day homework plan before planning one of their own tasks.
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Read the Schedule: Times, Days and How Long
Students read a weekly schedule, find start and end times, work out how long events last, and fill in a plan for their own Saturday.
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Say It in Your Own Words and Cite It
Students compare four attempts to rewrite a source sentence, learn why paraphrasing and citing matter, and practice writing and alphabetizing simple citations.
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Six Steps for Tough Choices: A Decision-Making Model
Students learn a six-step decision-making model, match each step to its job, and apply it to a fictional student’s scheduling problem.
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SMART Goals: From Vague to Specific
Students learn the five parts of a SMART goal, judge sample goals, solve two goal-progress problems, and write a SMART goal of their own.