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R & R - Incorporating Literature While Teaching Math - Ordered Pairs - "The Polar Express"
Third graders create pictures using ordered pairs after listening to a piece of literature. In this ordered pairs and literature activity, student listen to and discuss The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. They participate in...
Savvas Learning
Putting Shapes in Order
Challenge math scholars with polygon word problems that require logical reasoning. They answer two word problems about geometric shapes and their arrangement in a column based on clues given. Next, learners draw a robot made of shapes...
Curated OER
Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream
Use the book Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream to inspire your learners to solve and create multiplication word problems. After listening to the story, they solve two "which is more" problems. They explain their thinking with images, words, or...
Curated OER
Commonly Confused Words Exercise
Accept or except? Advice or advise? Eminent or imminent? Which is which witch? In order to select the correct word to complete 20 sentences, learners get out their dictionaries and check the meaning and usage of the commonly confused pairs.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Grade 4 Reading Item Specifications
Is it the end of the school year and you're in need of test practice? Use a set of reading passages to challenge fourth graders to answer questions based on what they read. Some of the questions require readers to compare and contrast a...
Curated OER
Pride and Prejudice: Magic Square Activity
Turn Pride and Prejudice into a math activity with a magic squares lesson. Kids read nine character traits and pair them to a list of the book's characters in order to complete the activity and find the magic number.
Curated OER
More Congruent Triangles
In this congruent triangles learning exercise, 10th graders solve 6 various forms of problems that include a proof and a word problem. First, they draw and label triangles and indicate the additional pairs of corresponding parts that...
Curated OER
Metals vs. Non-Metals
In this elements worksheet, students compare and contrast the characteristics of metals and non-metals. Students practice drawing Lewis dot diagrams and writing ion notation. This worksheet has 9 word problems, 8 matching questions, and...
Kelly's Kindergarten
April Daily Resources
Spring has sprung in your classroom! An entire month of activities relating to spring prompts learners to color, draw, write, and work on phonics.
Curated OER
Module 14 Keeping In Touch
In this ESL worksheet, student match 8 names with the events/facts that they are associated with. They write 8 sentences about the facts or events using the present simple verb tense. They put given words in the correct order to make 7...
Curated OER
Board Game: Race to 100
Who can get to 100 first?! It may be in the hands of chance, but either way kids will have to practice counting and adding along the way. Partners take turns rolling two dice and moving their game pieces that many spaces until one pupils...
Curated OER
Predict and Clarify with The Old Woman & Her Pig
Primary readers predict and check for understanding by using comprehension strategies. Prepare readers the first day by frontloading vocabulary and using pictures to visualize the words. On the second day, read the story The Old Woman...
Sundance
Teaching Strategies: The Giver
Can utopia be achieved? Included here are three literature worksheets to pair with Lois Lowry's The Giver. Pupils work in groups to come up with solutions to society's issues, individuals back up a statement related to a topic in the...
Curated OER
Attracting Business to Arkansas
Groups of learners research a city in Arkansas, then plan and create a brochure which would promote business growth in that city. The groups access the Internet in order to find out the necessary information about the town to put in...
Curated OER
Typing, Reproducing and Distributing the Job Pamphlet
Pupils use a word processing program to make a job pamphlet that is suitable for reproduction. This lesson help students write for a purpose. They use the skills of organizing, pre-writing, and revising with a word processing program.
Curated OER
Describing Environments
Fifth graders describe environments using position words. In this description lesson, 5th graders practice using adjective, comparatives and superlatives in partners and on worksheets.
Curated OER
Miss Nelson Is Missing
Young scholars practice identifying story elements and using vocabulary words from newly read books. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students read the book Miss Nelson is Missing, and complete several worksheets...
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"Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets"
Young scholars examine the expressive and descriptive language used in the books "Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets" and "Planet of the Robots." In pairs they take notes about each other's physical appearance and conduct interviews,...
Novelinks
Wildwood Dancing: Questions using Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Process
Readers respond to a series of questions focused onJuliet Marillier's young adult novel Wildwood Dancing, and crafted to reflect the levels in Bloom's Taxonomy.
Curated OER
Algebra/Geometry Institute Summer 2007: Graphing Activity
Seventh graders practice identifying coordinates by examining a city map. In this graphing instructional activity, 7th graders create coordinate directions on an index card and practice locating these locations on a grid. Students read...
Curated OER
Language Arts: Predicting and Clarifying Techniques
First graders discover predicting and clarifying skills while reading "The Old Woman and Her Pig." During the reading, they check their predictions while evaluating the characters, setting, problems, and solution. On the second day,...
Curated OER
Divide and Conquer: Breaking Down Skills For Slowlearners
Students are introduced to skills to help them become better readers. With a partner, they use magazines to identify consonant pairs and participate in a game naming words that ends with consonants. As a class, they practice clapping...
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Wicked Similarities and Differences in Cinderella
First graders focus and listen to stories in order to identify similarities and differences in those stories. This lesson focuses on some of the different versions of the story, Cinderella. They use a Venn Diagram imbedded in this plan.