Subject: Social Studies

Skills: Social Studies, Holidays – Martin Luther King Jr., Listening & Speaking; Writing, Reading, Social Emotional

Description: Use this mini lesson with read aloud and center activity to have a meaningful discussion with your students on why it’s special we are different colors, and how we can also blend/mix together to live happily.

Skills: Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Analyze and draw inferences using an historical photograph  

Description: We learn to infer from pictures first!  Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this  1 hour  fully scripted “Closer Looking” lesson is based on an analysis of  an historical photograph.  Students will:

• Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
• Analyze and draw inferences using an historical photograph

CCSS: RI.4.1, SL.4.1, SL.4.2, SL.4.3