Reading can be a rollercoaster with its ups and downs! Use this lesson that features a rollercoaster-themed story map to teach your students about story structure and how to use a graphic organizer to visualize it.
Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay.
End of Year Math Assessment Addition and Subtraction Word Problems within 10
It’s almost the end of kindergarten! Use this helpful math worksheet to assess whether your students are able to distinguish between addition and subtraction equations in word problems.
Give your class the "write" stuff! In this lesson, your students will learn to master combining sentences using sentences with the same subjects or predicates.
Give your students practice explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. With these sports-themed texts, students will make inferences about the author and use text evidence to prove it.
Multiplying with fractions may seem easy to your students, but challenge them with this engaging lesson that requires them to write their own word problems!
From practicing and identifying patterns, to creating their own, kids will get the pattern practice they need for basic math skills in the first grade.
Five, ten, fifteen... Help your students practice their multiplication skills by teaching them to skip count by fives. In this lesson, they will use dice to practice math!
A farm is full of life! This math workbook features colorful farm scenes with exercises to help kids identify living creatures and practice their counting to develop math and categorization skills.
Learning addition for the first time can be overwhelming, to say the least. Help your child practice adding single digits with a fun counting worksheet.
Do your students have trouble understanding the main types of figurative language? This lesson will teach them about I SHAMPOO C, an acronym used to to remember nine of the main types with ease.
Children learn early math by dealing with objects in place of numbers. These worksheets cover concepts of quantity, counting, and even adding and subtracting, using animals and nature to help teach.
Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.
Suffixes can do some amazing things. They can turn "power" into "powerful," "big" into "bigger," and "fear" into "fearless." This hands-on lesson allows young writers to build their own words using different root words and suffixes.
Now that your student can count her 123s, it’s time to add them up. These single-digit addition worksheets and activities teach your student strategies for adding numbers under 10 and provide plenty of practice with addition within 10. There are even songs and stories to help teach single-digit addition. Keep challenging your whiz kid with our addition within 20 resources.
Once your student understands how to count to ten and that numbers represent quantity, it is time to introduce them to the concepts of addition. Addition at its simplest is taking two separate quantities and putting them together, creating a new, larger quantity.
When your student is first introduced to addition within 10, it’s important to reinforce the concept of quantity. The more ways they are introduced to this, the more they’ll understand that numbers and arithmetic operations are representative of quantities of things, and how those quantities change.
Represent quantities with different forms. This could be fingers, objects, sounds like clapping or snapping, or drawn images.
Take ten objects and separate them into two groups. For example, separate ten blocks into one group of six blocks, and one group of four blocks.
For each number 1-10, determine which number should be added to it to make 10. Understanding this will help students quickly calculate two and three-digit addition problems in the future. For example, 1+ 9 = 10.
This is also when you will introduce your student to basic mathematical symbols like the addition or plus sign (+), and the equal sign (=), as well as the two different forms an equation could take:
1 + 1 = 2
Or
1
+1
2
As with any math skill, repetition is key to retaining information. The Education.com games and activities above help your students practice this skill in a way that keeps it fun.