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The three "Big Ideas" for Math

1. Relationships and Algebraic
Thinking
2. Geometry and Measurement
3. Number Sense and Operations in
Base Ten

All resources below have been       collected to be used with Second
Grade students.

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The three "Big Ideas" for Social
Studies

1.  Knowledge of Continuity and  Change in the History of Missouri
and the United States
2.  Knowledge of the Principles
Expressed in Documents Shaping
Constitutional Democracy in the
United States
3.  Knowledge of Relationships of
the Individual and Groups
Institutions and Cultural Traditions

All resources below have been       collected to be used with Fourth
Grade students.

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Relationship and Algebraic Thinking Non-Fiction Book   

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Relationship and Algebraic Thinking Non-Fiction Book   

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Title: Odd and Even Socks

Author: Melanie Chrismer
Illustrator: Caroline Anderson
Year Published: 2005
Publishing Company and City:       Scholastic Inc, New York City

Odd and Even Socks by Melanie Chrismer takes an everyday piece of clothing, socks, that students know and are comfortable with and uses it to reinforce the concept of odd and even numbers. This book would be great as a read aloud to introduce the idea of even and odd to Second Grade students. This book then could be added to the library for students to refer to when needed!

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Hello! My name is Mary Sztukowski and this is my Padlet.  In this Padlet you can find multiple resources that can be used to incorporate literacy in the three content areas of Math, Science, and Social Studies.

Each Content Area consists of three "Big Ideas" found in the DESE Standards. Within each big idea you will find a non-fiction book, an online resource, and an additional print resource.

Incorporating reading and writing in all content areas is important for the growth and development of students of all ages. Therefore, all the resources selected to incorporate content area literacy in Math have been collected with Second Grade students in mind. The resources in Science have been collected for Third Grade students. Finally, the resources in Social Studies have been collected for Fourth Grade students.

The last two tabs of my live binder contain my evaluations and citations for each resource!

Please enjoy.

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The three "Big Ideas" for Science

1. Matter and Its Interactions
2.  Heredity: Inheritance and
Variations of Traits
3. Earth's Systems

All resources below have been       collected to be used with Third
Grade students.

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Relationships and Algebraic Thinking Website 

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Prodigy is a Math platform that engages, motivates, and differentiates. The site has students creating their own avatar and working towards math skills in a game style fashion. All skills are aligned with Common Core Standards and teachers have the ability to see reports on student progress towards each goal. Prodigy would be a great tool to teach second graders about Relationships and Algebraic Thinking especially in regards to developing the concept of odd and even numbers. When looking at the math skills offered in Prodigy there is an option for Second Graders to work on odd and even number selection up to 20 and determining if numbers are odd or even in a word problem!

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Prodigy math game has over 1200 skills for children to master. And all they have to do is play the game.

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Relationships and Algebraic Thinking Additional Print

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Relationships and Algebraic Thinking Additional Print

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Having charts for students to reference is a great tool especially when trying to teach a new concept and reinforce the patterns seen in even and odd numbers! Therefore, I would use 100 charts to let students discover the relationship between even numbers independently. I would have them highlight all the even numbers in the chart in one color. We then would move into the odd numbers, highlighting with a different color. Therefore, students are active in the process of seeing that all numbers that end in 0,2,4,6,8 are even and numbers ending in 1,3,5,7,9 are odd! The students could then keep their charts as a tool to reference while we continue to learn and grow in our understanding and I would hang the charts on the wall as a reference for the whole class!

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Geometry and Measurement Non-Fiction Book 

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Title: The Coin Counting Book

Author: Rozanne Williams
Illustrator: Charlesbridge Publishing
Year Published: 2010
Publishing Company and City:     Charlesbridge, Watertown, MA

The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Williams is a great book that uses rhyming and catchy phrases to teach the value of each coin. The book also expands into teaching about addition and subtraction of coins! Finally, the book concludes with teaching about the different ways to add coins to make the same amounts.  My favorite part of the book is the realistic images of each coin. Therefore, the illustrations enhance the message of the story and give a visual representation to all the differences and values of each coin. Because this book teaches about the value, adding, subtracting, and different ways to make the same amount, I could see myself using this book in multiple different lessons, selecting certain sections of the book each time, depending on what we are learning in the classroom that day.

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IXL is a great website that allows students to practice, learn, and grow in their skills. IXL offers practice for grades K-12 across many different content areas. Within each skill offered their are levels so that students are working at their own pace and are not able to level up until they have made a certain percentage in the prerequisite skill. Therefore, this resource would be great to have Second Graders work at their own ability levels to practice their geometry and measurement skills, especially money. Below is the link to the Second Grade math skill section which includes Money Skills!

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Learn second grade math skills for free! Choose from hundreds of topics including addition, subtraction, place value, shapes, fractions, and more. Start now!

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Geometry and Measurement Additional Print 

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The Coin Poem resource is a great way to add an additional print in the form of a fun rhyme to enhance learning about money for Second Grade students! By teaching students a poem, a teacher is providing students with a more memorable way to learn each coin and their value. A great way to reinforce the concept even more would be to have student chant or sing the poem while adding in motions! By using this resource and adding in movement, teachers are encouraging students to read, listen, move, and practice their fluency all while learning essential facts about coins!

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Number Sense and Operations in Base Ten Non-Fiction Book 

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Title: One Hundred Ways to Get to 100

Author: Jerry Pallotta
Illustrator: Rob Bolster
Year Published: 2003
Publishing Company and City:       Scholastic Inc, New York City

One Hundred Ways to Get to 100 by Jerry Pallotta is a beautiful picture book that is full of amazing illustrations to help students connect to the idea of the number one hundred. The book starts off by counting from one all the way to one hundred with a picture representing each number along the way. The book then continues to explain that there are many ways to get to 100 such as counting by twos, fours, fives, tens, twenty, and twenty-fives. The book also talks about adding and subtracting to get to 100! All of these ways to get to 100 are represented with pictures. The pictures are all images students are comfortable with such as apples, butterflies, or hamburgers. I love all the color and all the different ways this books teaches to get to 100. I could definitely use this book in multiple lessons and I think their are multiple pages in this book that would be great to give Second Graders a visual of counting in base ten!

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Number Sense and Operations in Base Ten Website 

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Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that has practice exercises, instructional videos, and personalized learning dashboards. In this way, Khan Academy allows for learners from K-12 to learn at their own pace and practice their skills in many different content areas. When searching in the resources for Number Sense and Operations in Base Ten for Second Grades, Khan Academy starts with place value, moves on to addition and subtraction within 100, and then into 1000. Therefore, this would be a great resource to use with Second Graders to offer them more videos and activities in order to help them become more familiar and comfortable working in base ten or as a resource to let them practice skills we are learning in class.

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Learn second grade math-addition and subtraction with regrouping, place value, measurement, shapes, and more. (aligned with Common Core standards)

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Number Sense and Operations in Base Ten Additional Print

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Base Ten Pictures is a great resource that allows students to be creative but still reinforces their base ten skills that they are working on! In this activity students are given a list of directions to read and follow to create a picture using base ten manipulates. They then have to record the value of the hundreds, tens, and ones used and then find the total. They are then asked to continue and make another picture and find the difference in totals between the two. When first learning about base ten a teacher could eliminate the last steps in the activity and then give them the task of subtracting later. Therefore, this activity can be broken down and used throughout many lessons to reinforce the base ten skills being learned at the time. The flexibility of editing the steps also allows a teacher to differentiate per student needs!

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Matter and Its Interactions Non-Fiction Book

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Title: Many Kinds of Matter A Look at Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Illustrator: Lerner Publishing Group
Year Published: 2015
Publishing Company and City:       Lerner Publishing Group Inc, Minneapolis.

Many Kinds of Matter A Look at Solids, Liquids, and Gases by Jennifer Boothroyd is an informational book that defines Matter and each state of Matter. The book does a great job of using short and direct definitions and sentences that have real life examples of each state of Matter to teach students about Matter. Along with the constant real life explanations the book pairs each definition with real life pictures for students to reference! I believe that this book would be a great resource for students to find in the library in their Third Grade classroom. The students could easily read and use this book to independently learn more about Matter and explore real life examples of Matter that they see everyday.

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PhET is a great interactive site that lets students explore using a digital simulator. In this simulation students are able to interact with atoms and molecules to see how their interactions change in each state of Matter. The students also have the option to be the ones that change the state of Matter by using temperature. By utilizing this website the concepts of melting, freezing, condensing, and evaporating as a result of temperature change comes to life!

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Watch different types of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas. Add or remove heat and watch the phase change. Change the temperature or volume of a container and see a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real time. Relate the interaction potential to the forces between molecules.

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Graphic organizers provide students with a way to organize their thoughts and their learning. When teaching the states of Matter a graphic organizer is the perfect tool to ensure that students are able to see the differences between each state! This graphic organizer below can be used in various ways to help teach the difference between solids, liquids, and a gases. A teacher could have students sort pictures into each column, or have students write examples in each column, or students could follow along and take notes with the teacher in their organizers. Any or all of these ways of using this resource has the students active in the learning process and staying organized with the help of a graphic organizer!

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 Heredity: Inheritance and              Variations of Traits Non-Fiction Book

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Title: What Color Is Camouflage?

Author: Carolyn B. Otto
Illustrator: Megan Lloyd
Year Published: 1996
Publishing Company and City:       HarperCollins Publisher Inc, New York City

What Color is Camouflage? By Megan Lloyd is a great book that teaches the basic survival skills of multiple different animals all around the world. One of the survival skills is having camouflage! The book then continues to explain many different animals and their camouflage and how it helps them hide from their prey. The book defines camouflage and all the different forms it comes in and how it is helpful. This book is full of content specific vocabulary words and definitions. Therefore, I would use this book as a read aloud to introduce the idea of how certain inherited traits, such as camouflage, help animals survive. By utilizing this book as a read aloud I would ensure that students are comprehending all the new ideas and words that are in this story and as a way to ensure that my students see how different animals have different traits.

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BrainPOP is a great online site that has many informational videos that include related quizzes, activities, vocabulary practice, and related readings on a variety of topics! The link below will take you to the BrainPOP that takes a closer look at camouflage in a cute video that would be a great way to get students engaged in this topic!

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Learn about camouflage, the protective coloring that allows animals to survive by blending into the background.

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In this resource students are able to practice their new vocabulary words and concepts such as camouflage, mimicry, body coverings and gills. Students will be asked to cut, glue, and fill in the missing blank as a hands on way to get them working and learning the important different animal adaptations! I also love this activity because a teacher can edit the sheets for various words and concepts to help enhance student learning across many different content areas.

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Title: Weather

Author: Kristin Baird Rattini

Illustrator: Photo Credits published by National Choreographic
Year Published: 2013
Publishing Company and City:      National Geographic Society, Washington DC

Weather by Kristin Rattini is an easy reader that would be perfect in a Third Grade library. This book defines weather, discusses the sun, explains different types of clouds, explores how the changes in temperature will cause snow, showcases the difference between thunder and lightening, discusses the colors of the rainbows, talks about when weather can be 'wild,' and finishes with defining wind. Throughout the book there are comprehension check questions and at the end of the book there is a fun activity for students to do that also checks their comprehension. I believe that Third Graders could easily read this book on their own and they could use this as a  reference while we learn more about the Earth's Systems!

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National Geographic Kids "Weather" by Kristin Baird Rattini in HD

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NASA has created a fun interactive site called Space Place that includes multiple games, activities, and videos about science topics! Through this website students can explore, using technology, all about weather and climate. This would also be a great resource to differentiate and let students explore at their own pace. Because there are so many different games, activities, and videos each student would be able to explore their own interest and work at their own ability level while learning more about climate and weather!

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Earth | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

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Articles, games and activities about our home planet

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Title: On the Same Day in March A Tour of the World's Weather

Author: Marilyn Singer
Illustrator: Frané Lessac
Year Published: 2003
Publishing Company and City:      HarperCollins, New York City

On the Same Day in March A Tour of the World's Weather by Marilyn Singer is a great book that explores the weather in different parts of the world on the same day! The book goes into detail about the weather in Canada, New York City, the Nile Valley, the Louisiana Bayou, Darjeeling India, Northern Kenya,  Darwin Australia, Patagonia Argentina, and Antarctica. Throughout the book there are many different words that represent different terms in each cultural in relation to the weather they are experiencing. The book also compares and contrasts weather throughout the story. I would love to incorporate this book in a read aloud setting, maybe even in March, when learning about the Earth's systems and specifically about weather changes and patterns during seasons.

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Knowledge of Continuity and  Change in the History of Missouri and the United States Non-Fiction Book

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Title: George vs. George The American Revolution as seen From Both Sides

Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Illustrator: Rosalyn Schanzer
Year Published: 2007
Publishing Company and City: National Geographic Children's Books, Washington DC

George vs. George The American Revolution as seen From Both Sides by: Rosalyn Schanzer is an excellent book that showcases in an unbiased way the two opinions of the American Revolution. The book also goes into great detail about the events, battles, discussions, and the governmental decisions during this time period. This book is a great tool to use in multiple different lessons. I personally used this book and only picked the pages that really showcased the differences between King George III and George Washington which was the focus of my lesson. Therefore, I can see myself in the future only reading a section about the Boston Tea Party or possible one of the major battles instead of the whole book. With that being said, I also think this book would be great to allow students to flip through and use as a resource on their own!

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Mission US is a free interactive site that features adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The game that I have linked below is called, "For Crown or Colony?" In this game students will play the role of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 who lives in Boston. As the students navigate the city and complete the tasks, they will encounter a spectrum of people living and working there. Suddenly, tension begins to rise in the game, right before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately, the student will determine Nat's fate by deciding where his loyalties lie. Therefore, this site and this game is a fun way to reinforce and teach students the attitudes that brought on the American Revolution during this time period of study!

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The source below is a PowerPoint that I created and used with students during a lesson about the American Revolution! I love utilizing PowerPoint during my lessons to provided a visual to what I am teaching. During this lesson we discussed the vocabulary word 'Revolution' and then I read the book George vs. George The American Revolution as seen From Both Sides by: Rosalyn Schanzer. While I read students filled out a Venn Diagram showing the similarities and differences between King George III and George Washington. The Venn Diagram was pre-made by myself and I made it to have guided notes. As I read, I would stop and lead a class discussion about what notes to fill in. Once finished the students checked their notes with the use of the PowerPoint.

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Knowledge of the Principles Expressed in Documents Shaping Constitutional Democracy in the               United States Non-Fiction Book 

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Title:  A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution

Author: Betsy Maestro
Illustrator: Giulio Maestro
Year Published: 2007
Publishing Company and City:      HarperCollins, New York City

A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution by: Betsy Maestro is an easy to read informative text that explains why and how the Constitution came about. What stands out most to me when reading this book is illustrations. The water color illustrations are absolutely beautiful and bring the book to life! I would love to utilize this book by doing a picture walk to intrigue students and then leave the book for them to explore in the Fourth Grade classroom library!

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The National Archives website is a great source to pull up and have students see real pictures of the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Bill of Rights! When visiting these documents in Washington DC no one is allowed to take pictures in order to preserve the already fading print. Therefore, unless students are able to go and see these documents themselves, this online resource is the next closest thing to seeing the real current condition of these famous documents! The National Archives site also provides great descriptions, videos, and more informational links to utilize for students to learn more.

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These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.

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These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.

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Below is a link is to the U.S. Constitution Day Poster Contest for students. This contest is an international contest promoted exclusively through the internet. Winners (one per grade) receive a Constitution commemorative coin and the Grand Prize winner also receives a $100 cash prize. There is a link in this site to the entry form where students will have to follow directions carefully in order to ensure their poster meets the criteria. On the entry form the students will also have to write about how they and their family benefit from the U.S. Constitution. Therefore, this resource is a great way to get students involved in being both creative illustrators and provides them the opportunity to establish and write about a personal real-life connection to the U.S. Constitution.

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ConstitutionFacts.com - Learn about the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and much more!

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The US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Articles Of Confederation. Constitution IQ Quiz, Constitution Day Materials, Constitution Bookstore, Pocket Constitution Books, Constitution Amendments. Fascinating Facts about the Constitution, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court and more.

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 Knowledge of Relationships of the Individual and Groups  Institutions and Cultural Traditions Non-Fiction Book

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Title: They Called Her Molly Pitcher

Author: Anne Rockwell
Illustrator: Cynthia von Buhler
Year Published: 2006
Publishing Company and City:       Dragonfly Books, New York City

In the book Molly Pitcher by Anne Rockwell Molly's bravery and heroism is beautifully depicted. During the American Revolution there were many women that took on the roles of cooking, making clothes, and caring for the injured soldiers. Molly did all of these and and more. She would run onto the battle field in order to bring the soldiers water and when her husband was shot she even participated in the fight by shooting cannons at the enemy!  The book explains all the ways that Molly went above and beyond to contribute to the American Revolution and that her bravery was even recognized by George Washington.  Therefore, this book gives life and recognition to the contributions of women, especially Molly Pitcher, and would be a great book to read aloud to students, when studying about historical women prior to the 1800s as well as when learning about the American Revolution.

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Learninggamesforkids is a great tool to get students excited to practice what they are learning with fun, colorful, and engaging games! This site has multiple games in the areas of math, language, science, and social studies. This website also has an abundance of printable resources for teachers that include activities, practice sheets, and graphic organizers! When looking through this site I found a whole section of games and resources that revolve around Women in History which would fit perfectly for fourth graders learning and examining the roles of women in history prior to the 1800s!

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Alphabet Games

Kids love to learn online with cool games, songs and videos! Preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school students can use fun online games to help with learning about social studies. Studying about famous women in history? This is the place to have fun with social studies! Play fun games to learn more about first ladies and other prominent and famous women. These educational games help students build social studies skills. Printable worksheets for social studies help students play with words and learn at the same time. Social studies education has never been easier! Learn fun facts regarding famous historical women, and do cool activities. At the same time, learn more about spelling and writing as well as practice new social studies vocabulary words. These games aren't just for American students-students learning ESL (English as a Second Language) can benefit, too! Students of all ages and abilities love online flash games, whether they're learning first grade language arts or sixth grade math. Learning can be so much easier when students have interesting, fun ways to do it. Students of all ages can improve their grades and do better in school with some educational practice with an online lesson. Best of all, kids of all ages are having fun while learning!

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Kids love to learn online with cool games, songs and videos! Preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school students can use fun online games to help with learning about social studies. Studying about famous women in history? This is the place to have fun with social studies!

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The resource below is an exit slip that would work perfectly for learning about Molly Pitcher! The slip is a tiny passage with facts about Molly and her life for the students to read. However, the passage consists of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors for the students to correct while they read. This form of an exit slip, having content but also having errors for students to correct, could be used in many different content areas as a way to integrate editing skills while still learning the content at hand! This type of exit slip could also be used to differentiate based on what editing skill is being taught and the needs of each student!