Guided Math Lessons in First Grade
Getting Started
Nicki Newton
- 286 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Guided Math Lessons in First Grade
Getting Started
Nicki Newton
About This Book
Guided Math Lessons in First Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of 3āconcrete, pictorial, and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, operations and algebraic thinking, and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns.
Throughout the book, you'll find tools, templates, and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can work more effectively in small guided math groupsāand have loads of fun along the way!
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Introduction
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What Are the Other Kids Doing?
Benefits of Guided Math Groups
- ā¦ See student knowledge in action.
- ā¦ Monitor the concepts and skills that are understood.
- ā¦ Catch and address the misunderstandings.
- ā¦ Ask questions that highlight thinking.
- ā¦ Analyze thinking.
- ā¦ Listen to conversations.
- ā¦ Assess in the moment.
- ā¦ Redirect in the moment.
- ā¦ Differentiate as needed.
Key Points
- ā¦ Different Reasons: remediate, focus on grade-level topics or working beyond grade level
- ā¦ Cycle of Engagement: concrete, pictorial, abstract
- ā¦ Heterogeneous and Homogeneous grouping
- ā¦ Math Workshop
- ā¦ Math Workstations
- ā¦ Benefits of Guided Math
Summary
Reflection Questions
- How are you differentiating instruction around the priority standards right now?
- Currently, how do you group students? What informs your grouping?
- Do you have a plan to make sure that everybody fully understands the priority standards?
References
- Baroody, A. J. (2006). Why children have difficulties mastering the basic number combinations and how to help them. Teaching Children Mathematics, 13, 22ā32.
- Carpenter, T. P., Fennema, E., Franke, M. L., Levi, L., & Empson, S. B. (1999). Childrenās mathematics: Cognitively guided instruction. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
- Henry, V. J., & Brown, R. S. (2008). First-grade basic facts: An investigation into teaching and learning of an accelerated, high-demand memorization standard. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 153ā183.
- Jitendra, A. K., Hoff, K., & Beck, M. M. (1999). Teaching middle school students with learning disabili...