w+Meredith+Preston

3rd Grade ELA Annie R. Morgan Elementary
 * Meredith Preston**


 * My name is Meredith and I am a third grade teacher at Annie R. Morgan Elementary. I love where I work and I love the extra challenge of working in a Turnaround School. I'm looking forward to sharing ideas with everyone!**

**My first lesson is a cause and effect lesson for 3rd grade students.**

It took about two days for all the students to complete the assessment on FCIM due to having 4 computers in my room. My students were really excited about this lesson. We have been working on cause and effect for quite a while as it seems to be a very difficult concept to learn. They loved the read aloud and, as always, they loved doing the activities on Destinations.

**My second lesson is a writing lesson on using similes. My kids had so much fun doing this lesson!** My principal observed this lesson. Here is her reflection also.

Here are a couple samples of the final product.

**For my third lesson, I used the on-line leveled text as an extention for guided reading lessons.** I made a rubric for this lesson on rubistar.com Here is a template I made for this lesson.

For my fourth and final lesson, I used the Houghton Mifflin online assesments to test my students on similarities and differences between two of our selections.