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Mammals: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Mammals 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, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Mammals - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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!

Tips:
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. .
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Mammals - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
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 Mammals - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Are Mammals?: Reading Informational Text
Prehistoric Mammals: Ordering Events
Classification of Mammals: Interpreting Visual Information
Specialized Characteristics: Compare & Contrast
Meeting Basic Needs: Reading Informational Text
My Needs: Graphic Organizer G
Mammals and Us: Reading Informational Text G
Fur and Hair: Concepts & Processes
Keeping Cool & Staying Warm: Cause & Effect G
The Mammal Report: Research & Presentation G
A Bite to Eat: Concepts & Processes G
Types of Mammals: Reading Informational Text GO2
Caring for Their Young: Reading Informational Text
Placental Orders: Classifying Information
Endangered and Extinct: Reading Informational Text
Fighting Mammal Extinction: Problem-Solution-Results GO6
The Wise Platypus: Primary Source Analysis
Mammal Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)