Title: | Determining the Whole Group |
Learning Target: | I am learning to synthesize when I read. I am learning to use number parts to determine the whole. |
Grade: | 1 |
Math KCAS: |
1.OA.8
Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = ???? - 3, 6 + 6 = ????. |
ELA KCAS: |
1.R.I.4
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. |
Title: | Seven Blind Mice |
Author: | Ed Young |
ISBN10: | 039925742X |
ISBN13: | 978-039925742 |
Lexile Reading Level: | AD350 |
Description: |
Formative Assessment Strategy: |
Math – Exit Slip – Give students a number bond with the parts given and they have to determine the whole. Reading- Give students verbal clues about an object. (This object 4 legs, spots, and a long neck. Synthesize what this object might be.) |
Materials: |
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young Boxes with objects inside that have holes cut into them for feeling Recording Sheet for feeling boxes Unifix Cubes |
Resources: |
Directions: |
Literacy Lesson: Launch –
Pg. 1 – essential vocabulary word – Blind – not able to see Pg. 3 – What would make the mouse think that it was a pillar? Pg. 4 – Look at the illustration. What is the second mouse feeling of? I wonder what the mouse will think that is? Pg. 6 – Now we have seen 3 parts of the “strange something”. Can you synthesize what you think the strange something is? Pg. 7 – The third mouse went on what day? What day will come next? Pg. 12 – Has anyone else put together the clues to figure out what the “strange something” is? Pg. 14 – Why do you think the mice were having such a hard time figuring out what the “strange something” is? Pg. 16 – Do you think the white mouse will guess correctly what the “strange something” is? Pg. 18 – essential vocabulary – Moral – A moral of a story is another way of saying a lesson that you learn. Do you think the mice learned a lesson? What lesson did they learn? Do you think that you could use the moral of this story to help you in your life?
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Discuss:
Math Lesson: Launch –
Explore:
Partner A – “I have 5 cubes.” Partner B – “I have 4 cubes.” Partner A and B – “ 5 and 4 makes 9. We have 9 cubes all together.”
Discuss –
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