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Follow the clues! Your students will read six brief passages and answer questions using inferencing skills. You can conclude that this will be a big hit with your students. This fun and engaging resource includes six brief passages, questions, and answer key. Perfect for 2nd through 5th grade. Check out the preview!Check out our other resources, and follow us to get the latest reading, science, math, and social studies resources for your classroom.Keywords: Language arts, inferencing, inferring,

Using models to represent odd and even numbers is a great way to help students fully understand this number property, as well as the math strategies of doubles and doubles plus one. Students must conceptualize dividing by two in the framework of real-world objects, taking something that is abstract and making it concrete. This deepens their understanding and helps them apply what they've learned! This resource includes: 290-word article that describes number properties, defines odd and even numb

Using models to represent factors and determine whether numbers are prime or composite is a great way to help students fully understand the concepts of factoring, prime and composite, and multiplication. Students must conceptualize multiplication in the framework of real-world objects, taking something that is abstract and making it concrete. This deepens their understanding and helps them apply what they've learned! This activity tasks students with dividing models up into equal groups, indicat

Give your students a reading check up with this 277-word quick read about the black widow and brown recluse—North America's poisonous spiders. Your kids will love it! This short passage compares these two fabled arachnids in three succinct, lively paragraphs. The assessment includes questions on text structure, comprehension, and word knowledge. Check out the preview! Resource includes: 277 word reading passage5 question mini quiz that tests text structure (organizational pattern), comprehension

Cover science, reading, word study, critical thinking, art, and more with this reading passage about adaptations. The packet includes several activities, graphic organizers and a word-study sheet that explores the words structure and adaptation, and their roots. Students can interact with the text in several ways; you choose how and how much. Here is what's included: 366-word reading passage that introduces camouflage and dormancy, explains structural and behavioral adaptations, and gives seve

Cover the science of the life cycle and reading skills, including text structure, questioning, word study and more with this reading passage about the life cycle of a frog. The packet includes several graphic organizers and a word-study sheet that explores the word cycle and its different definitions. Students can interact with the text in several ways; you choose how and how much. Here is what's included: 416-word reading passage that explains the life cycle, explores the life cycle of a frog

Extend your students’ number sense while teaching number parity. This activity lets students develop mental math abilities, problem solving strategies, and number sense by creating addition problems for odd and even numbers. Extend your students’ thinking!Students can review odd and even numbers by reading this article: Number Properties: Odd and Even.

This activity brings the concept of odd and even numbers into the real world. Students must identify the number that the shapes represent, and then circle groups to show WHY each number is either odd or even. The problems begin easy, but by the end students must count groups of objects, extending their knowledge from simple arrays to unorganized groups. They’ll love the pictures! Here's what you get: Brief explanation of odd and even numbersExample problems on first pageFour worksheets in allFul

Factor rainbows are a great way to engage students. They give students a point of reference, a systematic method, and motivation to find the factors of a number. After all, they see a rainbow at the end, along with the factors of the number they're factoring! This sheet provides everything a student needs to get started with factoring. Here's what you get. Very brief article that defines factors and productsStep by step instructions for finding factors with factor rainbowsScaffolding so students

Do you need an engaging comprehensive study reader for magnets for your elementary students? This reader covers EVERYTHING your students need to know about magnets, including: What magnets areThe magnetic properties of the earthPoles and attractionCompasses and how they workMagnetic and nonmagnetic materialsNatural and artificial magnetsHow people use magnetsUse this reader in guided reading, as a study guide, as background knowledge for classroom activities and labs, or as review. Second grade