Practical Practices

You wouldn't have a seat to sit on without a leg to stand on! Use this cute picture of a stool to help students understand you need supporting details to hold up the seat of the stool.

Over 72 single and multi-step word problems to increase rigor during math practice. Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This product can be used to make task cards, a database for Daily Math Reviews, or creating practices.

Use these companion worksheets for the following narrative nonfiction picture books to help reinforce the difference between fact and opinion: How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning, Snowflake Bentley, A Big Cheese For the White House, and Balloons Over Broadway,

Need a hook to introduce predictions or maybe a quick mini-lesson? Just use this PowerPoint presentation by reading each side to your students and stop to make a prediction before going to the next slide. Have your students use evidence from each story to predict what will happen next. Then have them confirm or revise their predictions before moving on. This presentation includes three short stories.

Need a quick game for centers or review time? Here's all you will need to get students to practice with single and multistep word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.

Use this foldable in interactive notebooks or a quick assessment to determine if students can differentiate between taproots and fibrous roots.

Have your students practice putting the steps of the Scientific Method in order as well as apply their knowledge of each step to various scenarios using the heading and task cards.

Use this foldable for a quick assessment or to add to interactive notebooks. Note-Print the first two pages two sided.

Get your students planning for their science fair project or check their understanding of how the scientific method works by having your students start the scientific process by creating: a Title, a Question, formulating a Hypothesis, conducting and recording Research, listing Materials, and coming up with a Procedure. Note: This is meant to be printed on 11 x 17 paper.

Here is a quick review of how to determine if a fraction is in simplest form and ways to check. Have students put fractions in simplest form on the bags of popcorn.

Use this as a quick assessment or for a study guide to help keep track of the characteristics of quadrilaterals (trapezoid, parallelogram, rhombus, square, rectangle).

Do you need a way to show students understand problem and solution? Here is a way for them to create the solution to a given problem AND show more than one way to solve the problem. It is a great way to check both reading and writing skills! An example and task cards are included as well as blanks to add your own problems to be solved.

Use this cut and paste activity as a guided practice or an assessment of this skill.

Review sensory words with this sort. It can be used as an assessment or practice.

A bank of elapsed time practice questions to use for Daily Math Review or Task Cards. Elapsed time spans over a 12 hour period and may cross from A.M. to P.M. or P.M. to A.M.

This can be used as a hook to begin teaching Main Idea or as a review center. Students will choose pictures one at a time out of a bag and see if they can find the central theme or the main idea of all the pictures.

Here is a fun activity to see if your students can create the visual for the likelihood for choosing candy from a paper bag. Use this as a center, whole group, or review activity.

Have the students practice this as a worksheet or turn them into task cards. This is a great way to review for a unit test. These are single and multi-step word problems that use unlike fractions. All answers are in simplest form. There is no regrouping in this set of practice problems.

Played like BINGO, but in pairs, students will take turns naming factors to make a "BINGO" on their board. This activity is a great way to review finding factors. There are two different sets of factors to work with.

Need an award for each one of your students? There are 36 awards included here to help match one to each of your unique students.