Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing.

In this lesson, your students will calculate and illustrate area for rectangles using area models, where one side length includes a fraction.

The world is their measuring stick! In this lesson, students will practice measuring objects using the world around them for units of measurement.

Advance your students from relative measurements to learning about standardized units with this lesson that teaches them about inches and feet by using common classroom objects.