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.

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.

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.

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.

Use this resource as an exit ticket, quick assessment, or practice for understanding sensory words in a story.

Use the tasks cards for SCOOT or just a center. These kid created problems are great for a quick review or check for understanding.

Have students listen to the story and decide how the words made them feel and how they connected with their senses. Then you can use this cut and paste activity as an exit ticket, quick assessment, or practice to show understanding.

Check students' understanding of Author's Purpose by having them apply each to a basic object. This is a fun way to have your students write and apply what they know!

Have your students create a riddle while encouraging descriptive language. Here is a graphic organizer that will help break down all of the components of an object to include in their riddle. There are some teacher suggestions included to help get students on their way.

Help teach your students the meaning of a homophone and increase vocabulary while studying pairs of homophones. Have students write the pair of homophones next to each of the ears. Under each flap students can draw a picture that represents the word, the definition, and, the word used in a sentence. Print 2-side

Need a "journal" page for students to do a homophone word search in their "Good Fit Books", then this is the worksheet for you. It gives the students examples and how they are used in sentences. They will go for a hunt in their books to find words that they know are homophones and list the other spelling as well as tell what they think it means. This is a great way to do a quick check to see if your students have the understanding of this skill.