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Story Order
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Story Order
Second Grade
Reading
Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.
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Story Order
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Story Order
Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.
Second Grade
Reading
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The Best Jumper Story
Story
The Best Jumper Story
Second Grade
Measurement
Measurement practice gets an upgrade in this sweet story about two robots competing in a high-flying battle.
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The Best Jumper Story
Story
The Best Jumper Story
Measurement practice gets an upgrade in this sweet story about two robots competing in a high-flying battle.
Second Grade
Measurement
Story
Sir Whiskers Division Story
Story
Sir Whiskers Division Story
Third Grade
Division
Kids learn all about division vocabulary and strategies with this silly story about a cat crew.
Story
Sir Whiskers Division Story
Story
Sir Whiskers Division Story
Kids learn all about division vocabulary and strategies with this silly story about a cat crew.
Third Grade
Division
Story
Reflecting on Story Problems
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Reflecting on Story Problems
Second Grade
Math
Encourage students to reflect on the context before solving story problems. Use these reflective questions during whole group, small group, or independent instruction.
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Reflecting on Story Problems
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Reflecting on Story Problems
Encourage students to reflect on the context before solving story problems. Use these reflective questions during whole group, small group, or independent instruction.
Second Grade
Math
Worksheet
Telling Time Story
Story
Telling Time Story
First Grade
Time and Money
Help kids master telling the essential skill of time with this rhyming poem.
Story
Telling Time Story
Story
Telling Time Story
Help kids master telling the essential skill of time with this rhyming poem.
First Grade
Time and Money
Story
The Shark Dentist
Story
The Shark Dentist
Second Grade
Subtraction
Work on subtraction in this short story about sharks who are mysteriously missing some teeth.
Story
The Shark Dentist
Story
The Shark Dentist
Work on subtraction in this short story about sharks who are mysteriously missing some teeth.
Second Grade
Subtraction
Story
Alfalfa's Out of the Box: Perimeter, Area, and Addition
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Alfalfa's Out of the Box: Perimeter, Area, and Addition
Third Grade
Geometry
Kids help Alfalfa the turtle and Old Harold navigate their way into the backyard in this sweet math story.
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Alfalfa's Out of the Box: Perimeter, Area, and Addition
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Alfalfa's Out of the Box: Perimeter, Area, and Addition
Kids help Alfalfa the turtle and Old Harold navigate their way into the backyard in this sweet math story.
Third Grade
Geometry
Game
Elliott's Museum: Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Story
Game
Elliott's Museum: Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Story
Third Grade
Addition
Kids help Elliott prepare treasures for her museum by answering word problems by using a tape diagram.
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Elliott's Museum: Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Story
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Elliott's Museum: Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Story
Kids help Elliott prepare treasures for her museum by answering word problems by using a tape diagram.
Third Grade
Addition
Game
What's Missing? Word Problems
Worksheet
What's Missing? Word Problems
Second Grade
Subtraction
Help students practice looking for clue words, creating drawings, and using other strategies for solving these story problems.
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What's Missing? Word Problems
Worksheet
What's Missing? Word Problems
Help students practice looking for clue words, creating drawings, and using other strategies for solving these story problems.
Second Grade
Subtraction
Worksheet
Change Will Do You Good
Story
Change Will Do You Good
Second Grade
Time and Money
This online story about a cat's quest to earn enough money to buy his favorite baked good practices both reading and math.
Story
Change Will Do You Good
Story
Change Will Do You Good
This online story about a cat's quest to earn enough money to buy his favorite baked good practices both reading and math.
Second Grade
Time and Money
Story
Zap and Kreb: Graphing Word Problems
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Zap and Kreb: Graphing Word Problems
Third Grade
Data and Graphing
Kids journey to Earth with aliens Zap and Kreb on a mission to gather data and create graphs in a math story that's out of this world!
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Zap and Kreb: Graphing Word Problems
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Zap and Kreb: Graphing Word Problems
Kids journey to Earth with aliens Zap and Kreb on a mission to gather data and create graphs in a math story that's out of this world!
Third Grade
Data and Graphing
Game
Time, Money, and Temperature
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Time, Money, and Temperature
Second Grade
Measurement
Let your students show off what they've learned about time, money, and temperature with this lesson that combines all three in one word story.
Lesson Plan
Time, Money, and Temperature
Lesson Plan
Time, Money, and Temperature
Let your students show off what they've learned about time, money, and temperature with this lesson that combines all three in one word story.
Second Grade
Measurement
Lesson Plan
They Sound Alike
Lesson Plan
They Sound Alike
Second Grade
Reading
This exciting lesson plan will introduce your second grade students to two different versions of the well-loved Cinderella story while also teaching them about making inferences and comparing and contrasting stories.
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They Sound Alike
Lesson Plan
They Sound Alike
This exciting lesson plan will introduce your second grade students to two different versions of the well-loved Cinderella story while also teaching them about making inferences and comparing and contrasting stories.
Second Grade
Reading
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Zooming in on Arrays
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Zooming in on Arrays
Second Grade
Addition
This worksheet provides students with the opportunity to work with groups and explore arrays. Students will create sentence frames and repeated addition equations based on pictures before writing their own creative story problems.
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Zooming in on Arrays
Worksheet
Zooming in on Arrays
This worksheet provides students with the opportunity to work with groups and explore arrays. Students will create sentence frames and repeated addition equations based on pictures before writing their own creative story problems.
Second Grade
Addition
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Reflect on the Context First!
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Reflect on the Context First!
Second Grade
Subtraction
Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.
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Reflect on the Context First!
Lesson Plan
Reflect on the Context First!
Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.
Second Grade
Subtraction
Lesson Plan
Summertime Math Stories
Lesson Plan
Summertime Math Stories
Second Grade
Addition
Give your students the resources they need to solve word problems with this math lesson. Your class will learn how to categorize important keywords using a WIKED map, a visual tool that helps them through the problem-solving process.
Lesson Plan
Summertime Math Stories
Lesson Plan
Summertime Math Stories
Give your students the resources they need to solve word problems with this math lesson. Your class will learn how to categorize important keywords using a WIKED map, a visual tool that helps them through the problem-solving process.
Second Grade
Addition
Lesson Plan
The Paper Bag Princess
Lesson Plan
The Paper Bag Princess
First Grade
Reading
In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.
Lesson Plan
The Paper Bag Princess
Lesson Plan
The Paper Bag Princess
In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.
First Grade
Reading
Lesson Plan
Creepy Cobwebs Word Problems
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Creepy Cobwebs Word Problems
Second Grade
Math
Sandy's barn is full of creepy cobwebs and spooky spiders. She tries to avoid going inside -- she hates spiders -- but tonight she has to.
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Creepy Cobwebs Word Problems
Worksheet
Creepy Cobwebs Word Problems
Sandy's barn is full of creepy cobwebs and spooky spiders. She tries to avoid going inside -- she hates spiders -- but tonight she has to.
Second Grade
Math
Worksheet
Draw and Write the Fraction: Word Problems
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Draw and Write the Fraction: Word Problems
Third Grade
Fractions
Learn about fractions with a set of fun, real-world scenarios!
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Draw and Write the Fraction: Word Problems
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Draw and Write the Fraction: Word Problems
Learn about fractions with a set of fun, real-world scenarios!
Third Grade
Fractions
Worksheet
A.M. or P.M.? Lily's Busy Day
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A.M. or P.M.? Lily's Busy Day
Second Grade
Time and Money
Time flies with this foundational time-telling worksheet!
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A.M. or P.M.? Lily's Busy Day
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A.M. or P.M.? Lily's Busy Day
Time flies with this foundational time-telling worksheet!
Second Grade
Time and Money
Worksheet
The King and the Moon
Story
The King and the Moon
First Grade
Fractions
For a leisurely geometry lesson, let your kid relax and read this charming storybook.
Story
The King and the Moon
Story
The King and the Moon
For a leisurely geometry lesson, let your kid relax and read this charming storybook.
First Grade
Fractions
Story
Unknown Numbers Word Problems
Worksheet
Unknown Numbers Word Problems
Second Grade
Subtraction
Help students identify the important details and practice the multiple ways of finding the answers to word problems.
Worksheet
Unknown Numbers Word Problems
Worksheet
Unknown Numbers Word Problems
Help students identify the important details and practice the multiple ways of finding the answers to word problems.
Second Grade
Subtraction
Worksheet
Bar Graphing with Roly
Game
Bar Graphing with Roly
Second Grade
Data and Graphing
Stop those germs! Kids must catch germs as they drop and prevent people from getting sick in this icky data and graphing game.
Game
Bar Graphing with Roly
Game
Bar Graphing with Roly
Stop those germs! Kids must catch germs as they drop and prevent people from getting sick in this icky data and graphing game.
Second Grade
Data and Graphing
Game
Subtraction Word Problems: Subtract 'Em
Interactive Worksheet
Subtraction Word Problems: Subtract 'Em
Third Grade
Subtraction
Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve subtraction problems with numbers up to three digits long.
Interactive Worksheet
Subtraction Word Problems: Subtract 'Em
Interactive Worksheet
Subtraction Word Problems: Subtract 'Em
Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve subtraction problems with numbers up to three digits long.
Third Grade
Subtraction
Interactive Worksheet
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Area Strategies
Lesson Plan
Area Strategies
Third Grade
Geometry
Allow your students to explore the pros and cons of different strategies used to find the area of rectangles. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden lesson.
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Area Strategies
Lesson Plan
Area Strategies
Allow your students to explore the pros and cons of different strategies used to find the area of rectangles. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden lesson.
Third Grade
Geometry
Lesson Plan
Addition Word Problems: Add It Up!
Interactive Worksheet
Addition Word Problems: Add It Up!
Third Grade
Addition
Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve addition problems with two or three two-digit addends.
Interactive Worksheet
Addition Word Problems: Add It Up!
Interactive Worksheet
Addition Word Problems: Add It Up!
Kids use details from the word problems on this third grade math worksheet to construct and solve addition problems with two or three two-digit addends.
Third Grade
Addition
Interactive Worksheet
Halloween Word Problems #8
Worksheet
Halloween Word Problems #8
Second Grade
Addition
Don't get spooked out by math! These Halloween word problems bring some scary fun to your math exercises.
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Halloween Word Problems #8
Worksheet
Halloween Word Problems #8
Don't get spooked out by math! These Halloween word problems bring some scary fun to your math exercises.
Second Grade
Addition
Worksheet
Telling Time: Word Problems at the Library
Interactive Worksheet
Telling Time: Word Problems at the Library
Third Grade
Time and Money
Solve time and elapsed time word problems in this library-themed math worksheet!
Interactive Worksheet
Telling Time: Word Problems at the Library
Interactive Worksheet
Telling Time: Word Problems at the Library
Solve time and elapsed time word problems in this library-themed math worksheet!
Third Grade
Time and Money
Interactive Worksheet
What's That Number?
Lesson Plan
What's That Number?
Second Grade
Addition
Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.
Lesson Plan
What's That Number?
Lesson Plan
What's That Number?
Practice finding unknown numbers in addition equations using fun and silly word problems.
Second Grade
Addition
Lesson Plan
Add It Up! Counting Money
Lesson Plan
Add It Up! Counting Money
Second Grade
Time and Money
Students will work together as well as individually to add up coins to a desired amount. This real life skill will be made fun when students get to physically count out their cents!
Lesson Plan
Add It Up! Counting Money
Lesson Plan
Add It Up! Counting Money
Students will work together as well as individually to add up coins to a desired amount. This real life skill will be made fun when students get to physically count out their cents!
Second Grade
Time and Money
Lesson Plan
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