Enhance your students' reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with this engaging worksheet bundle featuring three captivating texts: "Frogs vs Toads," "Sharks vs Dolphins," and "Lions vs Tigers." This comprehensive resource is designed to facilitate comparing and contrasting these fascinating animals while challenging students with thought-provoking comprehension and discussion questions.
Engaging Worksheets for Young Writers"!
This product is designed to support upper elementary and lower intermediate school students in developing their reading comprehension and writing skills. With a focus on informational and opinion writing, this toolkit provides a range of resources to enhance students' abilities and foster their writing skills.
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This science reading product was created to teach my students the importance of reading instructions, reading technical instructions, and of course bringing awesome science into the reading curriculum.
Students will follow instructions on how to grow a pinto bean. They will keep track of its growth for 6 days, filling out a Data Observation Table by sketching the changes and writing down some of the observations that they see going on. I have my students write the observations in complete sentences.
This is a Google doc so you can change instructions as you see fit.
Two volcano vocabulary activity worksheets. The first one is a 20-word search. The word search contains images of a shield, cinder, and composite volcano. There are some fun volcano puns that encourage reading and are fun to share. The second worksheet is a crossword puzzle containing a word bank with more words than students need. This helps eliminate students counting how many boxes there are for each word.
In this money word problems worksheet, students will add and subtract dollar amounts to find out how much they would spend altogether, how much change they need back and figure out if they have enough money to purchase the items. There are 8 money word problems in all.
You can also purchase the Google Doc version of this worksheet through Teachers Pay Teachers. The Google Doc version allows you to edit the names, money amounts and verbiage to fit your local students.
In this activity students take simple sentences and use metaphors and similes to enhance their sentences, making them more interesting, entertaining, and more meaningful. Students will become more familiar with what a simile and a metaphor are.
Student names are in bold so that teachers can easily see them and replace them with their own student names. This makes is more engaging and fun as well.
If you would like to purchase the Google Doc version which allows you to insert your own student names please visit the following link on Teachers Pay Teachers.
This author's purpose game was designed with 3rd through 5th graders in mind. There are 18 questions that students will read and then try to identify the purpose the author had in mind, to inform, persuade, or entertain. The cards can be printed front to back and then laminated. I use six of these games to split my class into 6 different groups. Included is a snakes and ladders board game with a March and St. Patrick's Day. If this author's purpose is taught in a different month than this, please use any old game board.
The rules I use:
In this 4 day lab, students will become very familiar with the procedures involved in identifying minerals.
Day 1: Students will learn what streak, cleavage, and luster are.
In this assignment, students will open up a Google Doc, you can have it printed as well, and fill out a table of some very useful industrial ores. The ores that will be researched are diamonds, gold, rock salt, bauxite, iron, and titanium. Students will research which 3 countries in the world are the top producers of each ore. They will then find and write 2 or more industrial uses for each ore. As they are doing their research, students will also use a map and mark where these countries are. This is great to reinforce the geography standards.
After teaching what suffixes are, use this suffix bingo game to review. There are 31 pages. One is a call sheet and the other 30 are unique bingo cards. Call off the definition and students will mark off the word with a prefix.
You can also purchase the prefix bingo game.
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