Using The Four Square For Content Applications In Grades 5 9

This packet will teach your students a variety of valuable writing skills using the four square writing method. Your students will learn how to write reports on various topics, such as books, states, laboratory experimetments, and more!

Even students who have had a lot of experience writing often complain that they have nothing to write about! But what they need isn't topics, but the ability to organize and clarify their thoughts around a topic and develop that content into sentences, and those sentences into paragraphs. All the help your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum is in this book.

When you give a writing assignment, do your students ever complain that they have nothing to write about? As a teacher, you know that the solution isn't a list of topics, but the ability to brainstorm, organize and clarify information, and develop content into effective prose. These exercises will provide you with all the help you need to teach your students these invaluable skills.

Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.

Packed with effective instructional strategies, this book explores why certain K-5 students struggle with math and provides a framework for helping these learners succeed. The authors present empirically validated practices for supporting students with disabilities and others experiencing difficulties in specific areas of math, including problem solving, early numeracy, whole-number operations, fractions, geometry, and algebra. Concrete examples, easy-to-implement lesson-planning ideas, and connections to state standards, in particular the Common Core standards, enhance the book's utility. Also provided is invaluable guidance on planning and delivering multi-tiered instruction and intervention.