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Comparing More Than, Less than, Same: Representational Level

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Introduction

Phase 1

Initial Acquisition of Skill

Phase 2

Practice Strategies

Phase 3

Evaluation

Phase 4

Maintenance

Download printable version of this teaching plan, with additional detailed descriptions

 

PHASE 4: Maintenance

Purpose: to provide periodic student practice activities & teacher directed review of this skill after students have mastered it.

1. Songs and Fingerplays

Materials:

  • Dependent on activity selected


Description: Nursery rhymes, songs, and chants that reinforce this concept (one potatoe, two potatoe, etc.)

2. Spinner game

Materials:

  • Spinner with groups of pictures in each section of a wheel.
  • Pack of word cards
  • Paper
  • Crayons, markers


Description: Child spins wheel and draws a word card (more, less, same). Child draws more, less or same objects as what spinner points to.

3. M & M sort

Materials:

  • M & M's
  • Teacher -made graph


Description: Give out M & M's. Child sorts by color and graphs to show more, less, or same.

4. Reading in the Content Area

Materials: Use the following books: The Hungry Caterpillar, The Doorbell Rang

Description: Read and illustrate story.

 

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