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Life Cycles: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Life Cycles 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 Life Cycles - 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 Life Cycles - 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 Life Cycles - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Is a Life Cycle?: Reading Informational Text
Simple Life Cycles: Research & Writing G
Metamorphosis: Concepts & Processes G
Complete Metamorphosis: Interpreting Visual Data G
Incomplete Metamorphosis: Reading Informational Text G
Metamorphosis Types: Compare & Contrast G
Simple vs. Metamorphic Life Cycles: Compare & Contrast GO1
The Life of a Butterfly: Comparison of Primary Sources
Poetry of Plants: Primary Source Analysis
Plant Life Cycles: Reading Informational Text G
Seeds Everywhere!: Cause & Effect G
In the Garden: Primary Source Analysis GO2
Annual, Biennial, or Perennial?: Research & Writing
Life Span and Death: Data Analysis
Endangering the Life Cycle: Reading Informational Text
Endangering the Life Cycle: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Life Cycle of a Human: Reading Informational Text
Life Cycle Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core Correlations


G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)