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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here is a paired activity to use as an exit ticket, a quick practice, or center to practice ordering 4 fractions. There is a place for students to write out their problem solving thinking process. Task cards are provided that can be used for many other activities (naming fractions, fraction war-comparing, and ordering). **Printed on 11 x 7 paper.

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!

Here is a quick way to see if your students know the differences between the Earth, Moon, and Sun. This can be used as a review, study organizer, or a graded assignment.