Teaching Gracefully

As you are teaching about the different types of clouds (Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Altostratus, Cirrocumulus, Nimbostratus) use this note page to help students be more engaged and interactive through the lesson by recording a picture, description of the attributes, and a forecast of the weather that each type of cloud will bring.

Use this to help students practice or as an assessment when teaching students about placing decimals on number lines, comparing decimals, and ordering decimals. Students are asked to complete the given number line with decimals, choose which decimal correctly identifies the given point on a number line, place specific decimals on a given number line, compare decimals and explain their reasoning, order decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least, and apply these concepts to solving rea

Use this graphic organizer to help the students to compare how humans/animals, insects and plants all perform the functions of structure/support, respiration, reproduction, and circulation, but they all perform them in different ways with different structures. This can be used as an assessment piece, or as a graphic organizer to help them to take notes during a lesson or while they are reading from a text.

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 4, Week 4 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of asking and answering questions, as well as the comprehension skill of identifying cause and effect relationships. This resource includes a blank/generic cause and effect graphic organizer. After reading the leveled reader "Stargazing" (level 40, 780), the students are to complete a cause and effect graphic org

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 2, Week 2 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of determining the theme or lesson, as well as the comprehension skill of asking and answering questions. After reading “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” the students are to incorporate the lesson that they learned from the drama into a letter to the grasshopper giving him advice of what he should have done differen

Use this pre-assessment to find out what your students already know about comparing fractions and decimals. This pre-assessment asks the students to use < , > , = to compare fractions with like and unlike numerators and denominators, solve a word problem involving fraction comparison, order decimals from least to greatest, place a decimal on a number line, and match amounts expressed in unit form to its equivalent fraction and decimal form.

After teaching the students about the forms that water can take, the students are given an opportunity to show what they learned by drawing a picture of how the water molecules look and act in a solid, liquid, and gas; as well as matching the correct form of water to a given description of the properties and characteristics.

Use this to see what your students remember about the different types of clouds. Students are to use word box below (with the name of different type of clouds) to complete each sentence with the correct type of cloud to match the description. Then they are to draw a picture of each type of cloud.

After teaching the difference between and the stages involved in complete and incomplete metamorphosis, make the content more meaningful by having the students research three insects to determine whether they go through a complete or incomplete metamorphosis. For each insect the student chooses to research, he or she will record the name of the insect, identify if it goes through complete or incomplete metamorphosis, explain how they know, and draw the life cycle. Have the students share their

Weather Forecast Words is designed to be used as part of the Weather Report Unit. Use this as an introductory activity when you are introducing the unit on weather. Have the students watch a weather report and listen to see how a real meteorologist describes what the weather is like. Pay attention to and write down all of the weather terms, phrases, or words related to weather that the meteorologist uses during the forecast.

Have the students practice making equivalent fractions mathematically by finding the missing number in the fraction.

This product reinforces the comprehension strategy reread and the comprehension skill compare and contrast by having the students use their leveled readers to reread pages 9-11 and use the graphic organizer in order to compare and contrast the natural disasters of landslides and hurricanes. This could be used in reading groups as guided practice, or as independent practice. This resource includes a blank compare and contrast graphic organizer, a blank compare and contrast graphic organizer speci

This product reinforces the comprehension strategy reread and the comprehension skill compare and contrast by having the students use their leveled readers to reread page 6-7 and use the graphic organizer in order to compare and contrast how sand dunes and wetlands prevent erosion. This could be used in reading groups as guided practice, or as independent practice. This resource includes a blank compare and contrast graphic organizer, a blank compare and contrast graphic organizer specific to s

These word problem task cards have the students apply the skills that they have learned of two digit by two digit multiplication and two step division to solve real-world word problems. Are they able to analyze the word problem and deduce which operation they need to use to solve the problem? These word problems come with an answer sheet that contains the number sentences needed to be used to solve the problem.

The Stars and Stripes: Discovering the meaning behind the American Flag Bundle is designed to be used as part of the American Symbols Unit. This bundle includes the lesson plan, the Stars and Stripes Forever Independent Practice Page, and the All About the American Flag Assessment Page. By the end of this lesson, the students should be able to, identify the key features of the American flag, and understand the significance of the color, the number, and the design of those key features, recall

Use this assessment to see if the students are able to recognize and generate equivalent fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 by using grids and compare fractions with denominators 10 and 100. There is a hundreds grid that is shaded. The students are to write two different equivalent fractions that represent the amount that is shaded on the grid (one with a denominator of 10, and one with the denominator of 100). The students are then to prove by showing mathematically that the two fracti

Use this to help students practice or as an assessment when teaching fractions and decimals. Students are to write a decimal and a fraction to represent the part of a grid that is shaded, compare fractions and decimals, shade grids to represent given decimals, write fractions as decimals, and write decimals as fractions.

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 2, Week 4 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of summarizing, as well as the comprehension skill of determining the main idea and key details. This resource provides several opportunities for students to practice the skill of identifying the main idea and key details. Included is a blank/generic graphic organizer to help identify the main idea of a text fro

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 1, Week 5 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of rereading, as well as the comprehension skill of determining the main idea and key details. This resource provides several opportunities for students to practice the skill of identifying the main idea and key details. This Included is a blank/generic graphic organizer to help identify the main idea of a text

This resource was designed to be used as supplement material for the McGraw Hill Wonder's literacy curriculum Unit 4, Week 4 in order to practice and utilize the comprehension strategy of asking and answering questions, as well as the comprehension skill of identifying cause and effect relationships. This resource includes a blank/generic cause and effect graphic organizer. After reading the leveled reader "Stargazing" (level 38, 650), the students are to complete a cause and effect graphic org