Homophones Supplementary Materials Grade 5-6 (PDF)
Supplementary teaching pack of lesson plans and practice activities for teaching homophones, meant to accompany a separate (not-included) homophones test set.
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Supplementary teaching pack of lesson plans and practice activities for teaching homophones, meant to accompany a separate (not-included) homophones test set.
Practices calculating x- and y-intercepts from linear equations given in standard form.
Day 4 of the masons unit, using a 12-yard by 12-foot wall scenario and x12 facts as the culminating fact-fluency challenge of the week.
A slide presentation introducing students to Benin, covering its location, government and quick facts, history timeline, geography and climate, economy, cities, and culture.
Build a thaumatrope and flip book, make a stop-motion animation, role-play/conduct an interview with a game designer, build and test a popsicle-stick catapult, make 3D glasses and 3D art, and play sound-identification games.
Students identify correct comma placement in partial sentences (e.g. 'protractor, mechanical pencil, and a ruler'), consistent with CCSS L.5.2 conventions/proofreading.
A challenging-level activity book covering advanced spatial and geometry concepts: networks and traversable networks, symmetry (reflectional, point, rotational) in 2-D shapes, tessellations, tangrams, properties and cross sections of 3-D shapes, and nets for constructing 3-D models (prisms, pyramids, cube, octahedron…
Day 1 of a mason-themed inductive math unit tying real-world area, cost, and profit word problems to the history of masonry (linked to Ancient China / Native American earthen-shelter history).
A slide presentation introducing students to Botswana, covering its location, government and quick facts, history timeline, geography and climate, economy, cities, and culture.
Identify the theme of a text, support it with examples, and write a summary of the text.
The back-to-school activity combines partner circulation with two sheets of prior-grade math review. Follow the directions for seated and moving groups, then have partners work and check a selected problem. Completed checking pages support review after the activity.
Select a research subject from a provided list, gather biographical facts, draw the subject with symbolic items, complete an outline, write a 5-paragraph MLA-formatted essay with 3+ sources and a works-cited page, complete a peer-review checklist, and self/peer-score against a CCRA-aligned rubric.
Students read a one-sentence story prompt (e.g. write a story about an evil witch, a spooky ghost, a dragon) with supporting brainstorming questions, then write a narrative on the ruled lines provided.
A slide presentation introducing students to Central African Republic, covering its location, government and quick facts, history timeline, geography and climate, economy, cities, and culture.
Students read an informational text and produce a response for the RI.5.2 assessment; per the answer key, the expected response should: responses may vary but should offer the theme of the text and a summary including details.
This is an intermediate lesson plan worksheet set for Wh- Questions. Enhance your students English knowledge with this comprehensive lesson plan that will teach them how to form question in the past. What were you doing? Where did you eat? Why did he become a doctor? Questions like these and many more with a guide to helps students…
Fraction skills practice for upper-elementary/middle-school students: equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, converting fractions to decimals and percents, and improper fractions/mixed numbers.
A bundle of four Common Core-aligned statistics and probability activities for a 6th grade math unit, covering statistical questions, data displays, and measures of center/variation.
A slide presentation introducing students to Brazil, covering its location, government and quick facts, history timeline, geography and climate, economy, cities, and culture.
Complete a 'cheat sheet' table of perfect squares/cubes and their roots (2-15), use it to estimate 5 practice square/cube root problems, then play a matching card game (memory-match, Go Fish style, or face-up matching) with 24 cards estimating roots.
In groups, rotate through 9 lab stations (7 content stations + 2 rest stations), completing a 'passport' packet: measure mass/volume and calculate density of two irregularly shaped objects using an overflow can and scale (Station 1); research the densest substance on Earth versus the Sun's density (Station 2); write a…
Select a research subject from a provided list, gather biographical facts, draw the subject with symbolic items, complete an outline, write a 5-paragraph MLA-formatted essay with 3+ sources and a works-cited page, complete a peer-review checklist, and self/peer-score against a CCRA-aligned rubric.
A math mini-unit teaching students to calculate unit price (price-per-ounce) to compare grocery values and understand inflation/shrinkflation concepts.
A slide presentation introducing students to Estonia, covering its location, government and quick facts, history timeline, geography and climate, economy, cities, and culture.