Landforms: Common Core Lessons & Activities by Carole Marsh (2013-12-20) Paperback

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

You are purchasing the paperback version of this book. The Landforms Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.How to Use the Landforms - Common Core Lessons and Activities Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!Click to view sample pages from this book. Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click . Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.The Landforms - Common Core Lessons and Activities Reading for Information Higher-Order Thinking Writing Problems Primary Source Analysis Vocabulary Graphic Organizers Map Activities & More!Here is the Table of Contents for the Landforms - Common Core Lessons and Activities What Are Landforms?: Reading Informational TextContinents & Classifying Information GO4Bumps and Reading Informational Text Research & Presentation GDescribing Main IdeaDescribe It!: Compare & Contrast G7Landform Regions of North Classifying InformationEarth’s Moving Concepts & Processes GO5The Landform Graphic Organizer GLandforms Created & Classifying Information Mesas & Ordering EventsSave the Beach!: Primary Source Analysis Reading Informational TextIn the Interpreting Visual InformationFault Lines & Comparison of SourcesHuman Activity & Cause & Effect GO5Land & Water VocabularyCommon Core Correlation Includes Graphic Organizer Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download .(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

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Published January 1, 1866

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.