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Practice Reading Poetry
Identify the rhyme scheme in a worksheet that features "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Readers use the nursery rhyme to reinforce poetic elements in four comprehension questions.
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Onomatopoeia
Drip drop goes the raindrop. Quack quack goes the duck. What other words have sounds? Reinforce the concept of onomatopoeia in a activity in which young poets identify animal sounds and items that make a given sound.
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Multiplication Table
Use the multiplication table as an aid for young mathematicians who are learning their multiplication facts. Children can explore the concept of multiplication by using the factors in the far left column and the top row to determine a...
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Long Division Worksheets
They say practice makes perfect. If that's the case then these worksheets will have young mathematicians perfectly solving long division problems in no time.
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Interpreting Metaphors in Shakespeare
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare provides the examples on this worksheet that asks readers to identify the two things being compared and to explain the characteristics the two share.
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Metaphors: Understanding Comparisons
Here's a metaphor worksheet that asks kids to identify the two things being compared and then to explain the similar characteristics that are being identified.
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Rewriting Similes and Metaphors
As part of a study of comparison, kids transform similes into metaphors and metaphors into similes.
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Similes and Metaphors
Do your kids a little more practice identifying similes and metaphors? This worksheet can be used as extra practice, for homework, or as part of a group activity
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Metaphor and Similes in Literature: A Challenge
After identifying the similes and metaphors in a series of lines from poems, individuals then explain what is being compared and the characteristics the two items share.
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Onomatopoeia in Literature
Identifying onomatopoeia is one thing; making an inference about the significance of the sound is more advanced. Young poets read a literary passage and identify the examples of onomatopoeia in each before naming the...
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Practice with Poetry
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138 is the focus of a reading comprehension exercise that asks readers to answer to five questions using evidence drawn from the poem to support their response.
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Plot — 3rd or 4th Grade
After reading a version of "The Tortoise and the Hare," scholars complete a plot diagram. They pinpoint the tale's beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and ending.
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Add Tens and Ones
For this finding the sum worksheet, students add two-digit plus two digit numbers in ones and tens place values with regrouping. Students solve 12 problems.
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Counting: Sea Animals
In this counting worksheet, students solve 5 problems in which sea animals in a set are counted. Students write the number that tells how many.
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Metaphors: Identifying Comparisons
My mother is a flower. John is a cheetah. Introduce kids to metaphors with a series of sentences that asks them to identify the two things that are being compared.
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Basketball Addition Puzzle
In this math worksheet, students solve 25 basic addition facts below 20. Using the sums and the key to the code, students decipher a secret message about basketball.
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Baseball Word Puzzle and Addition Facts
In this math learning exercise, students solve 25 basic addition facts below 20. Using the sums and the key to the code, students decipher a secret message about baseball.
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Abraham Lincoln Addition Puzzle
In this math worksheet, students solve 50 basic addition facts below 20. Using the sums and the key, students decipher the secret message about Abraham Lincoln.
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George Washington Addition Puzzle
In this math worksheet, students solve 45 basic addition facts. Using the sums and the key to the code, students will decipher the secret message about George Washington.
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Thanksgiving Counting
In this Thanksgiving counting instructional activity, students count lines of turkeys from one to nine and write the total numbers. Students solve eight problems.
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Subtraction: one digit numbers
In this subtraction worksheet, learners subtract one digit numbers from each other. Students complete 17 subtraction problems and then match the answers to a key which gives them a message.
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Addition - one digit numbers
For this addition worksheet, students add one digit numbers to each other. Students solve 8 addition problems where they write the sum.
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Addition - one digit numbers
In this addition instructional activity, students add one digit numbers to each other. Students solve 8 addition problems where they write the sum.
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Addition - regrouping
In this addition worksheet, 2nd graders add two digit numbers together in a regrouping chart. Students complete 12 addition with regrouping problems.