Tag Archives: english- language arts

As a little boy searches for his cat in Eric Carle’s Have You Seen My Cat? he repeatedly asks the titular question only to have to answer „This is not my cat!” when he’s met with tigers, lions, and other felines that clearly aren’t the boy’s cat. This lesson uses Carle’s predictable text and a […]

When visiting the recommended website in this lesson, students learn about the Underground Railroad and „walk in the shoes” of an escaping slave. Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara’s problems and how she solves them. Similar to Clara’s […]

Students will learn the ten steps of the engineering design process. Through video clips, quick-writes and think-pair-share activities, the students will become engaged with the concept and value of engineering design.

In this classroom clip, Albuquerque teacher Clara Gonzales-Espinoza explains to two students how to find and use evidence from the text while reading a picture-book version of Cinderella.