American Museum of Natural History
Bacteria in the Cafeteria
Scholars examine an animated picture to locate stars that, when chosen, provide a brief scenario, question, and answer. With each answer, a letter appears that later reveals a word.
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Spelling List 23: Words with -er and -est, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list learning exercise, students practice spelling words that are er and est words and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Spelling Skills
In this spelling activity, students read a list of 20 words. Kids underline the smaller word inside each word. For example, students underline pear in appearance.
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Comparing
Practice the comparison words lighter, heavier, longer, shorter, smaller, and bigger using this visual chart. For each set of three objects, pupils order them according to one of these terms. The six terms are illustrated above for...
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Addition and Subtraction word problems
In this word problems worksheet, learners solve addition, subtraction, money, decimals, and percentage word problems. Students solve 47 problems total.
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Unscramble the spelling words
For this spelling worksheet, students unscramble the spelling words in the sentences and answer the question the sentences ask. Students unscramble 10 words and answer 10 sentences.
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Test Your Spelling Skills
In this spelling skills worksheet, students find the small words inside the bigger words by analyzing the words below. Students underline the smaller word to complete the 20 examples.
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Hot Seat
One student is selected to come to the front of the class and take the "hot seat" facing his or her classmates and with his or her back to the board or chart. The student should have a clear view of the class word wall. Classmates select...
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Vocabulary Practice With Past Time
For this word meanings worksheet, students practice their vocabulary skills while using the past tense. Students complete twelve multiple choice questions where they choose the correct meaning of the bold word in each sentence.
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It's Bigger, Faster, and Stronger
In this ESL talking comparative worksheet, students practice conversations as they examine the objects picture in the sheet and talk about them with someone. Students then practice writing comparative words and forming sentences.
Worksheet Web
Suffixes
Add additional meanings to root words! Scholars show what they know about suffixes and root words with a activity that challenges them to create words and complete sentences.
Curriculum Corner
Guest Teacher Plans: Kindergarten
Emergencies happen. Be prepared the next time you have to call in a substitute with a lesson plan designed to meet the needs of a kindergarten class. Throughout the day, class members work with number and alphabet cards, identify numbers...
Common Core Sheets
Finding Percent of Fractions
Sixth graders read word problems that involve finding the percent of an item, given the fraction.
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Circles - Word Problems
For this geometry problem solving worksheet, students answer 8 words problems based on their knowledge of circles, circumference, radius, diameter, and perimeters. They show their work on the sheet between problems.
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
Approach word problems using these straightforward addition and subtraction practice scenarios. Learners choose answers from a list, recording the corresponding letter next to each problem. Ten questions involve basic addition and...
Grammar Net
Adjectives of Comparison
Is our car bigger than theirs? Is this car better than than that one? Use comparative and superlative adjectives of provided verbs to complete twenty sentences.
K5 Learning
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Guide kids as they trip trap over their bridge of reading with an activity focused on The Three Billy Goats Gruff. First graders read the classic story before answering a few reading comprehension questions about the events and...
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Practice with Scientific Notation
Zeroes are more important than they look! A guided practice activity takes learners through the process of both scientific and decimal notation, culminating in more complex word problems and equations.
Teach-nology
Making My Swimming Pool
If you'd always wanted an expensive swimming pool, how would you make the money to build it? Kids read a short passage about a quest to create a dream swimming pool, and use a list of words to fill in eight spaces throughout the reading.
Reed Novel Studies
Flora and Ulysses: Novel Study
As Flora from Flora and Ulysses drowns in her misery, she discovers a squirrel with bigger problems than her own. She saves him from the vacuum cleaner and finds out that his brush with death gave him superpowers. Scholars match...
Breaking News English
The Force Awakens Breaks Pre-Sales Ticket Records
May the comprehension skills be with you! Focus on context clues, vocabulary words, and analysis questions with an article about Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its record-breaking ticket sales.
PBS
Arguing over Area
With the help of the Area Officers and Perimeter Patrol, you learners will develop a better understanding of area and its relationship to perimeter. First, they view a video clip from Cyberchase, and then they visit a website to test...
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Ratio Problem Worksheet 2
Here is a ratio word problem worksheet in which learners solve a set of eight problems. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Cinco De Mayo: ELD Reading and Language-Building
A brief passage about the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo is accompanied by an array of language activities for ELD: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation, fluency writing,...