ST – Mastery 35%

Strategies Planned
 Modeling/Demonstration
o Reading: How to solve words and use context clues
o Math: How to plug numbers into an equation
o Writing: How to write from a different perspective (read aloud)
 Hands-on experience
o Math: Cheezit area and perimeter
o Science: mystery matter in the balloons
o Reading: sticky note connections; helping teacher with anchor chart
o Writing: short story
 Direct instructions
o Math: perimeter and area review
o Science: video about states of matter
o W: explaining what it means to write from different perspectives and showing
examples
 Repetition
o Discussion about big idea

Multiple Intelligences fostered

 Body/Kinesthetic
o Math: using manipulatives
o Science: feeling different types of matter
o Reading: stretching between each station

SF – Interpersonal 35%

Strategies Planned
 Peer interaction
o Math: Students can work together using manipulatives to solve area and
perimeter.
o Reading: students take turns summarizing sections for their peers.
o Science- Students discuss with members of their group to make predictions.
 Group Sharing
o Writing: Students share their work/progress with the class
o Reading: invention station- students share inventions with their group
 Peer/teacher feedback
o Writing: conferences with teacher
o Reading: feedback for summarizations
Multiple Intelligences fostered
 Music/rhythmic
o Reading: music during transitions
o Math: song about perimeter and area formulas
 Interpersonal
o Reading: small group setting
 o Writing: Working with the teacher during conference/ sharing ideas with others

NI - Understanding 20%
Strategies Planned
 Students will ask questions and make predictions
o Science: Students will write predictions
o Reading: students will find difficult words and use context clues to solve them.
 Students will practice solving problems
o Math: solving problems by using formulas
o Science: answering questions by doing an experiment
o Reading: solving unknown words using context clues
 Independent Work
o Writing: Students will research an animal on their iPad
o Math: Students will fill out worksheet
o Reading: students will read the passage independently at first during guided
reading

Multiple Intelligences fostered

 Intrapersonal
o Writing: writing short story
o Science 2: researching a chosen animal
o Reading: independent reading
 Verbal/Linguistic
o Writing: students write a short story and can share with others
o Reading: students verbally summarize sections of the text

NF – Self-expressive 10%
Strategies Planned
 Class/group discussion
o Reading: Students discuss why they think a word means something using
supportive evidence
o Writing: Students use their imagination and creative skills to write a short story
from the perspective of an animal.
o Reading: Students come up with an invention of their own to write about
 Student Choice
o Writing: students get to choose which animal they wish to take the perspective of
o Science 2: Students get to choose which animal they would like to research
o Reading: at the create your own invention station, students can choose how they
would like to explain/present their invention whether that be a diagram, written
description, or a labeled picture.

Multiple Intelligences fostered

 Logical/Mathematical
o Math: students use formulas
 o Reading: students can use diagrams to show their invention
 Visual/Spatial
o Math: creating pictures and models for perimeter and area
o Reading: drawing a picture of the invention
o Science 2: drawing a picture of the animal being researched
o Science: having the option of drawing a prediction
 Naturalist
o Science 2: researching animals and their adaptations