ORC Resource Types

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a predictable text to help students learn high-frequency words. Word learning is enhanced by whole-to-part tasks aimed at increasing the reader's need to attend to and process the print....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use familiar songs to reinforce their understanding of letter-sound correspondence. Although presented as a multi-day lesson, the components of this lesson can be customized to match the specific needs of beginning readers at various stages of reading development....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: "Now I can sing my ABCs"-so what comes next? How do young students come to understand the concepts of letters and words?...

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson exposes children to a wide range of animals and guides them through observation of animal similarities, differences, and environmental adaptations. This lesson can be used as part of a study of plants and animals....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students will view objects of various sizes from several viewing distances to discover that their visual field is limited. Students will record what they see and will compare their observations with classmates in an open, nonjudgmental forum....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: After completing this lesson students will recognize that the sun is an energy source that warms the land, air and water. Throughout the lesson students are engaged in discussions about the relative warmth or coolness of their environment....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This eight-lesson unit features activities in various modalities in which students work with progressively larger sets containing 5-10 elements. They count the elements, write numerals, and make sets with more or fewer elements....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students use multiple copies of a nonstandard unit (an outline of their teacher's foot) to measure various lengths. Then they measure the same lengths by counting repetitions of a single unit....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Working in pairs, students use multiple copies of nonstandard units (outlines of their own feet) to measure various lengths. They measure the same lengths by counting repetitions of a single unit....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: In the first half of the lesson, students sort objects by one or two characteristics into simple Venn diagrams made of yarn. In the second half of the lesson, they make simple repeating patterns with the objects they have sorted....