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.

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.

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.

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!