informational writing

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Fifth Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Spring Fifth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in the...

The goal of this one week first grade module is to have students create an informational science board in which they explain how objects are affected by pushes and pulls. The students will create one science board. The science board will be folded to mirror an actual science board used for...

At the beginning of the school year, most students coming into second grade can read, but they struggle with using information from reading in their own writing. This module is designed to be taught at the beginning of second grade to teach students how to take notes as they read texts and then...

Cold, desperate, and broken; the men of General Washington's army suffered severe conditions at their winter camp of Valley Forge during 1777 and 1778.  Students will read primary and secondary sources focusing on the experiences of Washington and his army while they endured the freezing cold,...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Fifth Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Fifth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in the...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Sixth Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Sixth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in the...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Sixth Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Sixth Grade Spring assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in the...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Seventh Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Spring Seventh Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Seventh Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Seventh Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Eighth Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Eighth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Eighth Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Eighth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in the...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Fourth Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Fourth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Fourth Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Spring Fourth Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Third Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Third Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in the...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Third Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Spring Third Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in the...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Second Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Second Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Second Grade as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Spring Second Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of Kindergarten as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall Kindergarten assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Fall of Kindergarten as an initial round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Spring Kindergarten assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered later in...

This set of performance assessment materials (2013-14 version) is intended to be completed in the Spring of First Grade as a second round of assessments, if appropriate for your class (see Fall First Grade assesment linked below for additional materials designed to be administered earlier in the...