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SS.4.10.A
explain the economic activities various early American Indian groups in Texas and North America used to meet their needs and wants such as farming, trading, and hunting; and
SS.WH.24
Culture. The student understands how the development of ideas has influenced institutions and societies. The student is expected to:
SS.WH.24.A
summarize the fundamental ideas and institutions of Eastern civilizations that originated in China and India;
M.5.4.H
represent and solve problems related to perimeter and/or area and related to volume.
Logo Building to Measurement with a Ruler
Resource ID: T2T05 Grade Range: 2 - 5 Subject: Math
Building to Measurement with a Ruler
T2Tbinder2 15 Teacher2Teacher Math Video Series
Grade Range: 2 - 5 Subject: Math
Explore the Teacher2Teacher math video series featuring key topics in mathematics instruction. Bookmark and return to this resource. New videos will be added throughout the ye...
ELA.3.3

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. The student is expected to:

SS.4.10.B
explain the economic activities early immigrants to Texas used to meet their needs and wants.
SS.WH.24.B
summarize the fundamental ideas and institutions of Western civilizations that originated in Greece and Rome;
M.5.5
Geometry and measurement. The student applies mathematical process standards to classify two-dimensional figures by attributes and properties. The student is expected to classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy of sets and subsets using graphic organizers based on their attributes and properties.
ELA.3.3.A

use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation;

SS.4.11
Economics. The student understands the characteristics and benefits of the free enterprise system in Texas. The student is expected to:
SS.WH.24.C
explain how the relationship between Christianity and Humanism that began with the Renaissance influenced subsequent political developments; and
M.5.6
Geometry and measurement. The student applies mathematical process standards to understand, recognize, and quantify volume. The student is expected to:
ELA.3.3.B

use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple-meaning words;

PBS Learning Media Martha's Perspective—Martha Speaks | PBS KIDS Lab
Resource ID: PBS334 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Help children build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha defines the word perspective. Screen reader support enabled.
PBS Learning Media <i>The Electric Company Magazine</i> | Issue Two
Resource ID: PBS338 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this issue of The Electric Company Magazine, children will build literacy skills through games and reading adventures with Jessica and the gang. Screen reader support enabled.
PBS Learning Media Activity: Sentence Fluency | WordGirl
Resource ID: PBS348 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this WordGirl lesson, build on words students already know to help them learn and apply new vocabulary and create different kinds of sentences.
PBS Learning Media Pressure—Martha Speaks | PBS KIDS Lab
Resource ID: PBS382 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Help children build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha explains the meaning of the word "pressure."
PBS Learning Media Action Verbs
Resource ID: PBS415 Grade Range: 3 - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly...
PBS Learning Media Off Target
Resource ID: PBS416 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
A neighborhood kid Marcus Barnes has the power…well, kinda. The Electric Company tries to help Marcus improve at throwing wordballs so he can join The Electric Company.&nbsp;
PBS Learning Media Nature Cat | Let's Save the Marsh! | 3
Resource ID: PBS417 Grade Range: 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Nature Cat and friends visited the marsh in the story segment Muck Amok. Now, learn along with them as they discover more about marshes and conservation.&nbsp;
PBS Learning Media Mighty Bright Knight | The Electric Company
Resource ID: PBS418 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Learn about the vocabulary words individual, opponent, merit, fortunately, and unfortunately with The Electric Company when a competition almost goes too far. Jessica and Manny compete to win the last...
PBS Learning Media Creative Motivation
Resource ID: PBS419 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: Fine Arts
In these segments, artist Mark Ecko discusses what motivates him to create his art, and what "creativity" means to him. This resource teaches students what "motivation" and "creativity" mean, and empo...
SS.4.11.A
describe the development of the free enterprise system in Texas;
SS.4.11.B
describe how the free enterprise system works, including supply and demand; and
SS.WH.24.D
explain how geopolitical and religious influences have impacted law and government in the Muslim world.
M.5.6.A
recognize a cube with side length of one unit as a unit cube having one cubic unit of volume and the volume of a three-dimensional figure as the number of unit cubes ($n$ cubic units) needed to fill it with no gaps or overlaps if possible; and
ELA.3.3.C

identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as im- (into), non-, dis-, in- (not, non), pre-, -ness, -y, and -ful; and

PBS Learning Media <i>The Electric Company Magazine</i> | Issue Two
Resource ID: PBS338 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this issue of The Electric Company Magazine, children will build literacy skills through games and reading adventures with Jessica and the gang. Screen reader support enabled.
PBS Learning Media Tips from the Playground: ER/EST
Resource ID: PBS372 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Reggie explains the uses and abilities of the suffixes "er" and "est." This resource verbally and visually demonstrates to students how these two suffixes function.
PBS Learning Media Prefixes & Suffixes
Resource ID: PBS374 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
This resource group teaches students about some of the most common prefixes and suffixes&nbsp;and about the effects they have on the tenses and meanings of verbs.
PBS Learning Media Unmuffins | The Electric Company
Resource ID: PBS420 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Learn about the vocabulary words unsure, unbelievably, undo, unfriendly, and unusual with The Electric Company in an undeniably exciting adventure. Something funny is going on. The Pranksters are bein...
ELA.3.3.D

identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.

PBS Learning Media Martha's Memory—Martha Speaks | PBS KIDS Lab
Resource ID: PBS333 Grade Range: 2 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Help children understand point of view in storytelling and build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha and friends discuss what the words "certain" and "sure" mean, and Martha shares her v...
PBS Learning Media Martha's Perspective—Martha Speaks | PBS KIDS Lab
Resource ID: PBS334 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Help children build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha defines the word perspective. Screen reader support enabled.
PBS Learning Media Activity: Synonyms and Antonyms | WordGirl
Resource ID: PBS350 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
This WordGirl lesson focuses on the collection of synonyms and antonyms for a richer, stronger vocabulary.
PBS Learning Media Pressure—Martha Speaks | PBS KIDS Lab
Resource ID: PBS382 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Help children build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha explains the meaning of the word "pressure."
PBS Learning Media Antonyms and Synonyms
Resource ID: PBS414 Grade Range: 3 - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this 3rd&nbsp;through 5th&nbsp;grade video, students learn about synonyms and antonyms through physical activity. The teacher calls out a series of commands.
PBS Learning Media Action Verbs
Resource ID: PBS415 Grade Range: 3 - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly...
PBS Learning Media Mighty Bright Knight | The Electric Company
Resource ID: PBS418 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
Learn about the vocabulary words individual, opponent, merit, fortunately, and unfortunately with The Electric Company when a competition almost goes too far. Jessica and Manny compete to win the last...
SS.4.11.C
give examples of the benefits of the free enterprise system such as choice and opportunity.
SS.WH.25
Culture. The student understands the relationship between the arts and the times during which they were created. The student is expected to:
M.5.6.B
determine the volume of a rectangular prism with whole number side lengths in problems related to the number of layers times the number of unit cubes in the area of the base.
ELA.3.4

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to use appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) when reading grade-level text.

SS.4.12
Economics. The student understands patterns of work and economic activities in Texas. The student is expected to:
SS.WH.25.A
analyze examples of how art, architecture, literature, music, and drama reflect the history of the cultures in which they are produced; and
M.5.7
Geometry and measurement. The student applies mathematical process standards to select appropriate units, strategies, and tools to solve problems involving measurement. The student is expected to solve problems by calculating conversions within a measurement system, customary or metric.
M.5.8
Geometry and measurement. The student applies mathematical process standards to identify locations on a coordinate plane. The student is expected to:
ELA.3.5

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.

SS.4.12.A
explain how people in different regions of Texas earn their living, past and present, through a subsistence economy and providing goods and services;
SS.WH.25.B
describe examples of art, music, and literature that transcend the cultures in which they were created and convey universal themes.
M.5.8.A
describe the key attributes of the coordinate plane, including perpendicular number lines (axes) where the intersection (origin) of the two lines coincides with zero on each number line and the given point (0, 0); the \(x\)-coordinate, the first number in an ordered pair, indicates movement parallel to the \(x\)-axis starting at the origin; and the \(y\)-coordinate, the second number, indicates movement parallel to the \(y\)-axis starting at the origin;
ELA.3.6

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:

SS.4.12.B
explain how geographic factors such as climate, transportation, and natural resources have influenced the location of economic activities in Texas;
SS.WH.26
Science, technology, and society. The student understands how major scientific and mathematical discoveries and technological innovations affected societies prior to 1750. The student is expected to:
SS.WH.26.A
identify the origin and diffusion of major ideas in mathematics, science, and technology that occurred in river valley civilizations, classical Greece and Rome, classical India, the Islamic caliphates between 700 and 1200, and China from the Tang to Ming dynasties;
M.5.8.B
describe the process for graphing ordered pairs of numbers in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane; and
ELA.3.6.A

establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts;

PBS Learning Media Reading Strategies
Resource ID: PBS328 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
This resource group teaches students a wide variety of reading strategies. It touches on such issues as careful reading and follow-through, context clues, capitalization, transition words, features of...
PBS Learning Media <i>The Electric Company Magazine</i> | Issue Two
Resource ID: PBS338 Grade Range: 1 - 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this issue of The Electric Company Magazine, children will build literacy skills through games and reading adventures with Jessica and the gang. Screen reader support enabled.
PBS Learning Media Intervention | Reading Rockets: Topics A to Z
Resource ID: PBS366 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 4 Subject: ELA & Reading
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a 3-tier framework schools can adopt to identify and help struggling learners—before they fail.&nbsp;
PBS Learning Media Education | Reading Rockets: Topics A to Z
Resource ID: PBS384 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 4 Subject: ELA & Reading
Teaching reading is a complex process that draws upon an extensive knowledge base and repertoire of strategies. Find out more about best practices in reading instruction and why so many are concerned ...
PBS Learning Media Marvin K. Mooney Activity
Resource ID: PBS412 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
In this activity, students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now” by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully&n...
PBS Learning Media Waddle
Resource ID: PBS421 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
Get your students up and moving in this Kindergarten through 5th grade activity that connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book “Waddle” as the teacher ...
PBS Learning Media Minute to Win It
Resource ID: PBS423 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
This Kindergarten through 5th grade activity is based on the popular game show, Minute to Win It! Students form into groups of 4-5 and perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points....
PBS Learning Media Fitness Bingo
Resource ID: PBS424 Grade Range: Kindergarten - 5 Subject: ELA & Reading
This activity is similar to traditional bingo. Each student gets a fitness bingo card. Creating space between them and their peers, students will act out the exercise if they have it on their bingo ca...
SS.4.12.C
analyze the effects of exploration, immigration, migration, and limited resources on the economic development and growth of Texas;
SS.WH.26.B
summarize the major ideas in astronomy, mathematics, and architectural engineering that developed in the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations;
M.5.8.C
graph in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane ordered pairs of numbers arising from mathematical and real-world problems, including those generated by number patterns or found in an input-output table.
ELA.3.6.B

generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;

SS.4.12.D
describe the impact of mass production, specialization, and division of labor on the economic growth of Texas;
SS.WH.26.C
explain the impact of the printing press on the Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe;
M.5.9
Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to solve problems by collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting data. The student is expected to:
ELA.3.6.C

make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;

PBS Learning Media Mixed-Up Headlines—Martha Speaks | PBS KIDS Lab
Resource ID: PBS447 Grade Range: 3 Subject: ELA & Reading
This activity will help children build vocabulary and writing skills and understand the different components of a newspaper. Explore a newspaper with them, and have them give its headlines a creative ...
SS.4.12.E
explain how developments in transportation and communication have influenced economic activities in Texas; and
SS.4.12.F
explain the impact of American ideas about progress and equality of opportunity on the economic development and growth of Texas.
SS.WH.26.D
describe the origins of the Scientific Revolution in 16th century Europe and explain its impact on scientific thinking worldwide; and
M.5.9.A
represent categorical data with bar graphs or frequency tables and numerical data, including data sets of measurements in fractions or decimals, with dot plots or stem-and-leaf plots;
ELA.3.6.D

create mental images to deepen understanding;