South Delta School District

South Delta School District

Mississippi Curriculum Test

Internet Resource/Integrating Technology into the Curriculum Guide

Compiled as part of the E2T2 Grant

Created by:

Mrs. Barbara Jackson, South Delta Elementary School

Mrs. Sarah Fleeman, South Delta Middle School

Ms. Linda Watts, South Delta Middle School

Ms. Myesha Davis, Synergetics DCS, Inc.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This guide was created to provide South Delta School District teachers with supplemental Internet resources that will aide in their instruction as they work to increase the performance levels of those students who are required to take the Mississippi Curriculum Test. There is also Internet resource information included for kindergarten through third grades. This guide is a work in progress and will be updated periodically.

If you have questions or comments pertaining to this document, please do not hesitate to contact one of its creators:

Mrs. Barbara Jackson

Bjdjackson@yahoo.com

Ms. Linda Watts

Linda_watts72@yahoo.com

Mrs. Sarah Fleeman

Willowlane223@yahoo.com

Ms. Myesha Davis

mdavis@synergerticsdcs.com

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2

Reading Grades K-3. 4

Reading Grades 4-8. 6

Word Patterns/Structure/Context Clues. 9

Main Idea and Details/Workplace Data. 10

Language Arts Grades K-3. 11

Language Arts Grades 4-8. 13

Kinds of Sentences. 14

Parts of Speech and other exercises. 14

Sentence Structure. 14

Sequence Events. 15

Mathematics Grades 4-8. 16

Order of Operation. 31

Probability. 32

Graphs and Data Analysis. 34

Coordinate Planes. 36

Equations. 38

Grade 4 Math Benchmarks. 39

Additional Supplemental Internet Activities. 41

Reading Grades K-3

Lessons, activities and online games

Between The Lions - Chicken Stacker

Learn about short vowel sounds in this online game K-2

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit/k-2_reading.shtm#top

Reading Grades 4-8

Expanded Reading Comprehension

Lesson Plans

Use the newspaper to improve student listening and reading comprehension skills.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0003.html

The student will be able to list the main characters from the book, and the part they played. The student will be able to describe the overall theme, setting and plot of the book.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0017.html

Student Activities and Games

This activity was designed to make them read carefully for information about products, then make judgments on whether or not it's right for them.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0008.html

A Great Resource of Reading Comprehension Worksheets

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/reading_comp/

After selecting and reading a book independently, students will create a paper bag book report using an ordinary paper bag. Students should choose five-seven items to place in the bag to represent significant events or characters from the book.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0011.html

Know a variety of organizational patterns used in informational texts (e.g., chronological order, compare-and-contrast, cause-and-effect)

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=21

Story Wheel is a reading activity designed to help students practice sequencing skills, summarizing a novel, visualizing story elements, and recognizing story structure.

http://www.teachersdesk.org/stwheel.html

Story Chains is a fun and motivating way for students to demonstrate they have acquired the ability to retell a story, to sequence the actions in a story, or to summarize the plot of a story.

http://www.teachersdesk.org/readchain.html

A Story Matrix is nothing more than a chart to organize and classify information about a book or novel.

http://www.teachersdesk.org/readmatrix.html

Several fictional stories that offer students the opportunity to increase his/her reading comprehension levels.

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension/grades_46/fictional/

Featuring free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They a re most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years

http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?external=http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm&original=http://www.proteacher.com/070166.shtml&title=Reading%20Comprehension%20Worksheets

Reading comprehension activities for grades 3-5.

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/readcompindexa.htm

Recognize the differences among the genres of stories, poems and plays

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=22

Word Patterns/Structure/Context Clues

Student Activities and Games

Compare the meanings of base words (root words) with the meanings of those words when prefixes and suffixes have been added.

http://www.richlandclicks.org/Teacher/connections/grade5/fix_sandwich.htm

Suffixes lessons and worksheets

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ps4glepsuf.htm

Neat handout on common prefixes and suffixes

http://www.usu.edu/teachall/text/langart/programs/PrefixSuffix.pdf

Using Prefixes

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/h/suffixl.cfm

Synonyms lessons and worksheets

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ps4glesyn.htm

Homonyms lessons and worksheets

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ps4glehomy.htm

Sense and Non-sense! Homophone Practice Sheet from Scholastic.com

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/results/view.asp?SubjectID=1&SubheadID=4&TopicID=173&GradeID=&PageURL=%2Flessonrepro%2Freproducibles%2Fspelling%2Fsp970818c%2Ehtm

Multiple Meanings

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcmul1.htm

Main Idea and Details/Workplace Data

Student Activities and Games

Know how to locate the name of the author, illustrator, the title page, table of contents, index and chapter headings.

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=1

Understand how headings are used to organize information in text

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=2

Know the characteristics and uses of a variety of reference sources and informational text (e.g., almanac, dictionary, daily news, atlas)

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=7

Identity sequence of events in a story based on a timeline http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=37

Use context clues, dictionaries/thesaurus and other classroom resources to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/e4topic.cfm?TopicID=27

Language Arts Grades K-3

Lesson Plans

Vocabulary and Language Development

Students will learn and use the appropriate labels for different objects correlating to various themes and units.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang08.txt Pre-K- K

Developmental Activity

Using The little Red Hen develop auditory, visual, language, gross motor and fine motor skills

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang22.txt K-1

Reinforcing Alphabets, Sound and Numbers

The student will say the letter and something that begins with that sound to their neighbor

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang34.txt K-1

Color Code Writing

The learner will be able to correctly form a given letter or number using the color code method.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang18.txt K-3

A Week with Dr. Seuss

Students will use reading skills.

Students will develop the concept of rhyming.

Students will compare and contrast items.

Students will develop their sight word vocabulary.

Students will develop creative writing skills.

Students will develop graphing skills.

http://www.mckendree.edu/edu-tech/thematic_units/seuss.htm K-2

Handwriting for Kids

Links and worksheets for manuscript, cursive and shapes

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/manuscript/shapes/index.htm

Letter Sounds

Purpose of the Lesson: The purpose of this lesson is to reinforce certain consonant sounds and to allow children to practice their spelling and writing skills

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAReinforceCertainConsonantSounds12.htm

Writing a Photo Essay

Understand the purpose of a photo essay.

Sequence a series of events.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang20.txt 2- 3

Word Meaning from Context Clue --Worksheet

Use the context to help you choose the best meaning or synonym for each highlighted word.

http://www.rhlschool.com/read7n2.htm 2-3

Contributing to the Main Idea—Worksheet

There is one sentence in each of the following paragraphs that does not contribute to the main idea. It does not belong in the paragraph. Underline the sentence that should be removed from each paragraph.

http://www.rhlschool.com/read6n7.htm 2-3

Language Arts Grades 4-8

Guide to Grammar and Writing

A great web site full of lesson plans and resources that covers EVERYTHING (including over 170 quizzes that your students can take online and receive immediate feedback) you need to know about grammar and writing.

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Kinds of Sentences

The students will make their own book, with a cover, author page, list all four kinds of sentences with definitions and an example of each. They will use it to review for their tests on sentences.

http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/623.html

Parts of Speech and other exercises

Help students build vocabulary, recognize parts of speech, and practice their writing skills.

http://www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?external=http://www.scholastic.com/&original=http://www.proteacher.com/070072.shtml&title=Scholastic%20Inc.

Parts of Speech Review

Students will be able to:

·        work within a group to develop the correct answer

·        describe how to diagram a sentence by first arranging

·        classmates into a human diagram

·        understand the concepts of modifiers

·        understand the concepts of helping verbs

·        diagram a sentence correctly at their seats

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang75.txt

Working with similes

Using similes in writing

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang42.txt

Using Helping Verbs in Writing

The students will recognize the helping verbs. The students will use the correct verb form with the helping verbs.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang83.txt

Sentence Structure

Edit for fragments and run-on sentences distinguishing between clearly written sentences and sentences that contain errors in expression or construction.

http://www.richlandclicks.org/Teacher/connections/grade4/sentence_twister.htm

Writing Successful Paragraphs

The students will each write a five-sentence paragraph with varied sentence beginnings, correct spelling and punctuation, and appropriate margins.

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang01.txt

Sequence Events

Sequence events and/or steps in a process using dramatizations, retelling, pictures, charts, and media.

http://www.richlandclicks.org/Teacher/connections/grade4/what_happens.htm

The student will develop a better understanding of sequencing, while further developing their writing skills.

http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Process_Skills/LPS0200.html

Mathematics Grades 4-8

Geometry

Lesson Plans

http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=104

In this Unit Plan, students investigate fractional parts of the whole and use translation, reflection, rotation, and line symmetry to make Four Part quilt squares. Teams of students make paper quilts from squares they have designed. Each team presents its quilt design to the class and describes how they arrived at the design. The teams analyze the different quilt designs and discuss the numerical and geometrical similarities and differences among them.

http://www.nasaexplores.com/search.php

An annotated index of NASA lesson plans.

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/outdoors/activity3.shtm

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/outdoors/activity1.shtm

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/outdoors/activity2.shtm

These three lesson plans above involve real world applications (building projects) of geometric concepts

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/pdflessonplans/sarahfleeman.pdf

Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/pdflessonplans/dessiehart.pdf

Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/pdflessonplans/feleciahintoncausey.pdf

Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/pdflessonplans/shirleyjenkins.pdf Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/03pdfs/lp2mary.pdf

Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/03pdfs/lp1janis.pdf

Identifying Polygons Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.deltastate.edu/academics/artsci/math/03pdfs/lp2janis.pdf

Symmetry of Polygons Lesson plan from DSU Summer Institute created by Mississippi teacher correlated to MS Math Frameworks

http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/classroom/lp_results.asp?searchType=keyword&SearchParam=geometry&Submit=Search

An annotated list of 11 geometry lesson plans by Mississippi teachers correlated to Mississippi mathematics frameworks and NCTM standards.

Student Activities, Games, and Tools

General Terms and Definitions

Geometry Flashcards

http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/geoflash

Geometric Terms Games

http://www.quia.com/jg/65535.html

Interactive Geometry

http://www.studyworksonline.com/cda/explorations/main/0,,NAV2-21,00.html

Geometry Matho

http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/geopicture

Taxicab Treasure Hunt

http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/geometry/shape/taxicab/index.html

http://www.pwcs.edu/i-tech/resources/multimedia/globalgeometry.ppt

Students will review triangles (equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute, obtuse, and right), quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and parallelogram), pentagons, hexagons, and octagons.

Angles

Wise Up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/maths/shape/15_act.shtml

Angles

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/angles/index.html

Image Tool Explore angle measure

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/imagetool/index.html

Explore Learning Gizmos

http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspChildrenForCourse&CourseID=122

Polygons

Polygons 1

http://www.aaamath.com/B/geo318x4.htm

What does congruent Mean?

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/congruent.html

Interior Angles of Regular Polygons

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/interior.html

Go Fly a Kite

http://www.planemath.com/activities/flykite/kitehome.html

Bird’s Eye View

http://www.planemath.com/activities/birdseye/birdseyehome.html

Mega Shapes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/megashapes/invest/text01.shtml

Area and Perimeter

http://www.pwcs.edu/i-tech/resources/multimedia/area-perimeter.ppt

Students will describe and determine the perimeter of a polygon and the area of a square, rectangle, and triangle, given the appropriate measurements.

Perimeter Explorer

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/permarea/index.html

Area Explorer

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/perm/index.html

Shape Explorer

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/perimeter/index.html

Triangle Explorer

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/triangle/index.html

http://www.pwcs.edu/i-tech/resources/multimedia/funwithgeometry.ppt

Students will solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

Symmetry/ Rotations/ Reflections/ Transformations

Math Cats Polygon Playground

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/polygons.html

Bathroom Tiles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/bathroom.html

Quilt Blocks

http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/geometry/shape/quilts/index.html

http://womensearlyart.net/tangrams/

Women and Geometry: An Archive of American Patchwork Quilt Designs
Photographs and illustrations bring these quilts to life. This is a great resource to use when teaching about color and pattern. Easy instructions are available for saving the illustrations of patterns to a computer disk.

Tangrams

http://www.tangram.i-p.com/

Tessellations

Tessellation

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/tesspag1.html

Math Cats Polygon Playground

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/polygons.html

Tessellation Town

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html

Math Cats Pattern Blocks

http://www.mathcats.com/microworlds/patternblocks_overview.html

Floor Tiles

http://shodor.org/interactivate/activities/quadtess/index.html

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate/index.html

Students deform a triangle, rectangle or hexagon to form a polygon that tiles the plane. Corners of the polygons may be dragged, and corresponding edges of the polygons may be dragged. Parameters: Colors, starting polygon.

http://www.aaamath.com/B/geo.htm

These pages teach geometry facts covered in K8 math courses. Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about geometry