Unit Openers

Making A New Nation: Five Ideas for a Unit Opener

  The American Revolution Unit contains several wordy stories of American History. The goal of the unit opener should be to assess prior knowledge and plant the seeds of recognition of a few key characters and motivations so that the following stories are comprehensible and relevant. Unit Opener Objective Students will be able to explain …

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Open Court Reading Unit Openers

Unit Opener Planning Week is Back

Back in October, I hosted a Unit Opener planning week for Open Court units #2. It resulted in some terrific ideas being posted by web site visitors and fellow bloggers and those ideas are now linked to from the unit opener pages of those units. As teachers at different schools have different pacing, editions, and …

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