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Mathematical Instructional Routines

Integrate language-building activities into your math instruction with these simple classroom routines. They guide students to listen, read, and discuss what they’re learning—deepening their conceptual understanding.

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- 12/08/17
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Using Achieve the Core Tools to Tackle Common Math Issue…

How can you use Achieve the Core resources to address common challenges in the classroom? This ‘Tour de Core’, designed for…

Grades K–12
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 10/23/14
- 1 FILE
Suki's Kimono

Suki's favorite possession is her blue cotton kimono. A gift from her obachan (grandmother), it holds special memories of her grandmoth…

Grade 3
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 11/04/14
- 2 FILES
"Yang the Eldest" by Lensey Namioka and "Out of the Dust…

Includes two excerpts, eight text-dependent questions and one optional constructed-response prompt for students, and explanatory i…

Grade 4
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/29/14
- 1 FILE
Two Kinds

This is a story of an American-born Chinese daughter, her immigrant mother and their very different beliefs and hopes. The daughter str…

Grade 7
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/19/14
- 1 FILE
Tikki Tikki Tembo

Tikki Tikki Tembo is a short fable set in ancient China. During this time period parents honored their first born son with long a…

Grade 1
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/14/14
- 1 FILE
Lon Po Po

This is the Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood. In the story, the mother leaves 3 children home alone as she goes to visit…

Grade 3
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 10/30/14
- 1 FILE
The White Umbrella

The narrator of The White Umbrella is a Chinese American girl who struggles with feelings of embarrassment and longing to be like other…

Grade 8
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/30/14
- 1 FILE
The Jade Peony

In “The Jade Peony,” a Chinese-Canadian family engages in the delicate dance of retaining the old life while adjusting to t…

Grades 9–10
- 08/18/17
- 10 FILES
Wonders Materials Adaptation Project

The 2017 Wonders Material Adaptation Project (MAP) provides guidance for streamlining the 2017 Wonders literacy program in grades K-6. …

Grades K–6

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Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/21/16
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Japan

Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…

Grades 2–3
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/29/14
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In Response to Executive Order 9066

This is a poem was written in letter format, addressed to the U.S. authorities, in response to Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 90…

Grade 7
- 02/09/18
- 4 FILES
Math Modeling Myths (2018 February Webinar)

Ask your colleagues what it means to model with mathematics and you will probably get different answers from each one. Join us this mon…

Grades K–12
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 09/22/14
- 1 FILE
The Great Wall

This expository text selection outlines the efforts of the Chinese people to build the Great Wall to protect them from the Mongol invad…

Grade 6
- 01/11/18
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Using Achieve the Core Tools to Tackle Common ELA Issues…

How can you use Achieve the Core resources to address common challenges in the classroom? This ’Tour de Core’, designed for…

Grades K–12
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- 03/20/15
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Supreme Court Case: Korematsu v. U.S.

Includes: Primary source text on World War II Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Writing prompt for writing t…

Grades 11–12

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