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These print & use bee themed activities are an effective and engaging way to introduce, review, and practice important dictionary skills at any point in the school year. Activities range from introductory and remedial levels through challenge and enrichment levels, allowing you to differentiate and provide valuable practice to all of your learners. These activities are most appropriate for 3rd graders, but they can provide standards-based practice for many 2nd graders and 4th graders. These

This fun Mad Lib style activity is a great way for buddies to practice those tricky irregular plural nouns! Designed for my 3rd Graders, "Buddy Up!" also provides practice for 2nd Graders and review for 4th Graders. This packet includes two versions of the same game. The first version has the irregular nouns already in plural form, and the second version challenges students to convert the singular to plural form. This activity is aligned with the following Common Core ELA-Language Standards: **

These print & use winter theme ABC Order and Guide Word activities are the perfect way to introduce, review, and practice important dictionary skills. Included are 2 printable activity pages plus answer keys, as well as relevant Common Core Standards and teacher notes. These pages are most appropriate for 3rd graders, but they can provide standards-based practice for 2nd graders and 4th graders. The instructional notes and activities are aligned with the following Common Core ELA-Language

These print & use Autumn Harvest theme ABC Order and Guide Word activities are an effective and engaging way to introduce, review, and practice important dictionary skills. These activities are most appropriate for 3rd graders, but they can provide standards-based practice for many 2nd graders and 4th graders. Varied activity levels allow you to differentiate and provide valuable practice for all of your learners. The included instructional notes and activities are aligned with Common Core E

This crossword puzzle provides practice with map skills words and their definitions. Your students will solve the crossword puzzle using the clues provided; all answers are listed in the word box. Domain specific words and phrases include cardinal, compass rose, continents, equator, globe, intermediate, hemispheres, landforms, map key, North Pole, oceans, poles, scale, and South Pole. I have my students do this activity as part of their preparation for our map skills unit test. It would also b

This back to school monster themed resource provides everything you’ll need for two fun and engaging classroom community building activities and bulletin board display. Here is what's included: ♥ Detailed notes for preparation, display, and use of all components in the classroom ♥ Monster Glyph student instructions / code worksheet page ♥ Presentation Page - multiple options - for student to create “monsterpiece” ♥ All in one Bulletin Board Kit - title letters, place holder sheets, editable stu

In this winter-themed STEM challenge, students uses simple machines to design a system to get a snowman's head to its body. This activity challenges students to call on most of the Standards of Mathematical Practices, as well as to write clearly for a specific purpose. It reinforces the idea of things - and people - working together, and introduces the Rube Goldberg Machine, which takes this idea to a humorous extreme. Here's a peek at what this resource includes:Book List - both fiction and

These End of Year Posters provide a fun way for students to reflect on the closing school year! Included are poster printables for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Each grade has both boy and girl options. Just print and let your students do the rest! This resource is similar to the poster printables I have in my 100th Day of School ELA + Math Printables & ActivitiesIf you have any questions please feel free to contact me via Q & A or at my email, pamelajwendt@hedgehogreader.com. Thank

These hundred-themed ELA and Math activities - many of them no-prep printables - provide your students with meaningful celebration of the 100th Day of School! Although aligned with Third Grade Common Core Standards, these activities are appropriate for fourth grade as well. This packet contains: ♥ We've Come a Long Way in 100 DaysMeasurement Activity and Bulletin Board - CCSS MP.5 ♥ Wacky 100th Day PizzaSorting and Classifying Activity Using Unit Fractions - CCSS 3.NF.A.1 ♥ Word Mine - Cent

Here are 36 task cards to practice elapsed time in a Halloween-y way! I also created a worksheet that you can use as an assessment, practice, or homework for your ghosts and goblins. Answer keys are provided for all. HALLOWEEN ELAPSED TIME task cards are divided into 3 sets of 12 each. One set of word problems challenges students to represent the problem and solution on a number line diagram. Another requires students to draw their answers on clock diagrams. Skills covered in the task card

These Halloween theme ABC Order and Guide Word activities are an effective and engaging way to introduce, review, and practice important dictionary skills. You will find the following included, all with an engaging not-scary Halloween theme design: Relevant Common Core Standards and introductionTeacher Notes1 ABC Order printable worksheet and Answer Key1 ABC Order game with recording sheet and Answer KeySkills required include alphabetizing to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd letter (and beyond). I will

This no prep winter Singular Possessive Nouns practice printable is perfect for morning work, homework, your literacy center, or a fun seasonal addition to your sub tub. Included is one printable activity page plus answer key, as well as relevant Common Core Standards. These pages are most appropriate for 3rd graders, but they can provide standards-based practice for 4th graders and high level 2nd graders. This activity is aligned with the following Common Core ELA-Language Standards: ** Seco

These SUPER fun activities provide plenty of engaging, meaningful, relevant practice that you can use all year long with your Multiplication Superheroes! Here is what this jam-packed math resource includes: ★ Introduction and Common Core State Standards alignment ★ “We Can” poster ★ Directions, models, and preparation notes ★ Dividers to separate each activity section ★ 10 pages timed assessments for multiplication facts within 100 ★ 10 multiplication foldables, one printable template for each n

Looking for engaging, meaningful, relevant practice so that all of your students can be Multiplication Superheroes? Then you - and your kids - will love my "Ker-Pow! Multiplication Foldables!" This interactive foldable activity challenges students to: ★ write multiplication equations for all products of two 1-digit numbers on individual factor foldables ★ write a word problem for each equation to describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as that equation ★ create an

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown Picture books for big kids? Yes! I love to use picture books as mentor texts, and have created this freebie to share a couple of ideas to connect visualizing strategies with vocabulary and sequencing - ultimately to strengthen comprehension! Read more in this post about how I use this resource in my classroom: Teaching Visualization, Vocabulary, and Sequencing with Mentor TextsThis packet includes: ♥ 1 page vocabulary words ♥ 1 page foldable activity ♥ 1 page

This Thanksgiving ABC Order and Guide Word dictionary skills packet includes 2 printable activity pages plus answer keys, as well as relevant Common Core Standards and teacher notes. These pages are most appropriate for 3rd graders, but they can provide standards-based practice for 2nd graders and 4th graders. The instructional notes and activities are aligned with the following Common Core ELA-Language Standards: ** Second Grade (L.2.2.E) and (L.2.4.E) ** Third Grade (L.3.2.G) and (L.3.4.

Use these cute superhero themed assessment printables as a quick way to check your students for mastery of their multiplication facts to 100! I use these quickie test sheets for whole-class assessment once each week, and I keep them readily available for students to check their own progress in their free time throughout the week. This packet includes: * Ten 100-item timed facts tests, one sheet for each 1 through 10 * cute superhero printable for students to monitor their own progress * relevant

Based on the familiar memory card game "Concentration," this literacy center activity provides buddy pairs valuable practice in the correct placement and use of punctuation. After matching punctuation marks - period, comma, question mark, exclamation point, and semicolon - with the sentences that need them to be complete, students will write the correct sentences on a recording sheet. I've provided an answer key. Also included are teacher instructions, player instructions, and a game folder lab

In this Groundhog Day themed STEM challenge, students figure out multiple ways to pop a "groundhog" up out of his "burrow," and then they must accurately measure his shadow using centimeters. This activity challenges students to call on most of the Standards of Mathematical Practices, as well as to write clearly for a specific purpose. It puts accurate measurement and data recording into real-life practice. Groundhog Day is an opportunity to discuss hibernation, seasons, and folklore. Here's

These print & use Valentine’s Day theme ABC Order and Guide Word activities are an effective and engaging way to introduce, review, and practice important dictionary skills. You will find the following included, all with a Happy Valentine's Day theme design: Relevant Common Core StandardsTeacher Notes and instructions for all activities"I Can" Learning Target posters aligned with Common Core State Standards for grades 2, 3, and 42 ABC Order printable worksheets and answer key for each2 Guide W