Captain Connections!

This week in SLASH we had a special guest.
Captain Connections!

Captain Connections is an expert when it comes to connecting what we read to our past experiences.

There are three types of connections we can make when we are reading: text to text, text to self, and text to world. The descriptions are listed below. Making connections helps with reading comprehension and it makes the story more enjoyable.

 Here are a few prompts to help you think of a connection to text. 

If you're asked to make a connection and you can't think of one, you can always start with,

"If that happened to me, I would..."

or something along those lines.

We learned about citing text when answering text-based questions, right? Well, you can use the same method for writing about text connections! Here is a variation on the R.A.C.E. method we discussed earlier. 

 The RA part of your answer can come from one of the Super Connection Starters above. 

Here's an example of a thorough written connection. You can click on it to enlarge the text.

For a printable version of our Captain Connections notebook pages, click here. 

Teachers, for the complete PowerPoint lesson, visit my TpT store!

Remember to make super connections when you are reading for an assignment or for pleasure!

It's Super!

The Place Value Shuffle

Yep! Today we had fun learning about place value. Now we can understand and explain the value of digits.

What's a digit?

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What's place value?

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If you're looking for a place value song to sing for the next 3 months, here you go!

Place value, place value, movin' to the left...

I can dig that groovy beat.

That leads us to the Place Value Shuffle! 

Put on your dancin' shoes!

In our decimal number system, the value of a digit depends on its place, or position, in the number. Each place has a value of 10 times the place to its right. A number in standard form is separated into groups of three digits using commas.

This chart shows the value of each digit in a large number. Each number value is 10 times greater than the number on its right.

Going the opposite direction… each digit is 1/10 of the digit on its left.

That's it! You've got it!

Moving on...

Next we talked about finding the value of a digit within a big number. To figure out the value you have to look at all of the numbers from right to left.  You start with the ones place and multiply by 10 for each digit to the left. A quick way to do this is to count the digits to the right of the number you are finding the value of. Then replace those digits with ZEROs.

We're finding the value of 9, so we can replace the digits to the right of 9 with 0s. The value of 9 in 196,528,347 is 90,000,000 or ninety million! Click here for a tutorial review of how to find a value of a digit.

For more Place Value fun, check out these games!

Mathman Digit Value Game

Place Value Card Game

Place Value Puzzler
Place Value Hockey

Keep up the great work!