When would two paws up denote a blockbuster film in your classroom? Only when young writers create movie reviews from a pet's perspective in this imaginative expository writing practice. This engaging topic begins with a class discussion...

Challenge young mathematicians to buy classroom supplies by staying within the means of a $1,000 budget. The mathematical activity provides learners with the opportunity to decide what items from the supply list would benefit a class of...

Fourth graders conduct a class survey on the number of pets that the 4th grade owns and they record that data in their math notebooks. They make a bar graph displaying the results using a spreadsheet through Microsoft Excel.

To underscore the importance of practicing good listening skills class members engage in a series of activities that model poor listening skills. In pairs and then as a whole group, class members enact different, more positive techniques...

Students define the term "responsibility". As a class, they participate in voting on different ideas presented to them and develop a graph showing the results. They use the internet to virtually take care of the adopted pet of the class.

This activities in this packet, the second in the series of support materials for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on animal habitats, are designed specifically for English language learners.

The opportunities are endless with a collection of five worksheets that enable young mathematicians to read pie graphs. Individuals use graphs to answer eight multiple choice questions on each sheet. The set of five allows for...

Students review chapters 1-5 from the book, Where the Red Fern Grows. They complete/answer comprehension cards and create an advertisement for a getting a pet of their dreams.

Create a survey and graph! In this graphing activity, students listen to a story about pets, create a survey for family and friends about what pets they own, and use the information to create a bar and line graph.

Students examine the dangers of owning and breeding aggressive dogs. They debate whether aggressive dogs should be kept as pets. They write an essay from their point of view about aggressive dogs as pets.

A twenty-question worksheet provides practice using the commonly confused to, too, and two. Meet Common Core standards with the help of this resource in your fourth grade classroom. Use as homework or an assessment.

Everyone loves pigs! Give this short, half-sheet editing practice to your middle schoolers to develop editing skills while they read about popular pig movies. They search for errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical errors in a short paragraph about Ezra Jack Keats. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

Winter, spring, summer, and fall! Every season is covered in a 14-page list of writing prompts. Included are story starters, reflection questions, poetry topics, and more.

Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. For this graph making lesson, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their statistics and...

In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about rabbits. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

Learners explain that people with asthma can stay healthy most of the time if they do these things: stay away from things such as furry pets or cigarette smoke that make their asthma worse, go to the doctor and take medicine.

What animals says meow, and which creature has eight legs? Test your German language learners' knowledge of animals with a quick crossword puzzle. Also included are eleven additional crossword puzzles with topics that range from food to...

Knowing the parts of speech can make you a better writer! Young grammarians use sets of two and three adjectives to write engaging sentences, taking care to use the adjectives in the correct order.

As fun as a barrel of monkeys, this figurative language activity will engage your students in learning to write similes. Asking them to first think of adjectives describing the six nouns listed on the page, this exercise has...

What are you doing today? What have you done this week? What will you be doing next month? Focus on verb usage with a series of fill-in-the-black exercises on basic tenses, inappropriate shifts in tense, and active and passive voice.

Students practice graphing activities. In this graphing lesson, students discuss ways to collect data and complete survey activities. Students visit a table and graphs website and then a create a graph website to practice graphing.

Students investigate crickets in their habitat. For this insect lesson, students create a cricket habitat by using a glass jar with grass clippings and cloth. Students observe how crickets interact with each other and their eating habits.

Students solve equations by graphing. In this algebra lesson, students differentiate between functions and relations. They use the TI to graph their equation and analyze the graph.