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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Need a way to increase rigor? Here is a cut and paste activity for equivalent fractions. You can even use the fractions as a memory matching game or war!

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.