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This Week in Fifth Grade
Week 27
Analogies
Analogies
When you build analogies, you are strategically making connections between words and ideas. Help your child develop this critical thinking skill by practicing different types of analogies. Highlight the type of connection between each set of words — for example, finger : hand :: toe : foot is a part-to-whole analogy.
When you build analogies, you are strategically making connections between words and ideas. Help your students develop this critical thinking skill by practicing different types of analogies. Shape analogy games or puzzles can be great individual or group activities. Highlight the type of connection between each set of words — for example, finger : hand :: toe : foot is a part-to-whole analogy.
Awesome Analogies
Worksheet
Awesome Analogies
Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Working with Analogies
Worksheet
Working with Analogies
Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
What Is an Analogy?
Worksheet
What Is an Analogy?
Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Equivalent Fractions
Equivalent Fractions
Modeling fractions is an essential skill, even if your child would often prefer to just do the computation! Teach your child to use number lines and bar models as visuals so that they develop a deep understanding of the core concepts they are learning. After they have been exposed to models and visuals, give your child the opportunity to construct their own number lines. Once they understand what equivalent fractions look like, they will be ready to tackle complex problems using other methods.
Modeling fractions is an essential skill, even if students would often prefer to just do the computation! Teach your students to use number lines and bar models as visuals so that they develop a deep understanding of the core concepts they are learning. After they have been exposed to models and visuals, give your students the opportunity to construct their own number lines. Once they understand what equivalent fractions look like, they will be ready to tackle complex problems using other methods.
Equivalent Fractions: Bar Models
Worksheet
Equivalent Fractions: Bar Models
Use this worksheet to introduce learners to a useful tool for learning about and visualizing equivalent fractions: bar models!
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Blank Models for Fractions & Decimals
Worksheet
Blank Models for Fractions & Decimals
Use these blank models for a variety of math exercises, including multiplying decimals.
5th grade
Math
Worksheet
Fold for Fractions!
Activity
Fold for Fractions!
Here's a hands-on way to help your child understand how common fractions can be equivalent.
5th grade
Math
Activity
Poetry
Poetry
Shake up at-home reading time with some kid-friendly poems. Encourage your child to locate examples of figurative language, like onomatopoeia, while reading. If your child has limited exposure to poetry, spend time reading descriptive and silly poems. Then you can spend some time explaining poetry structure and how to identify rhyme and rhythm patterns.
Shake up independent reading time with some kid-friendly poems. Encourage students to locate examples of figurative language, like onomatopoeia, as they read. Spend time explaining poetry structure, rhyme, and rhythm patterns. Also, acting out poems and using instruments to show the rhythm are all fun ways to get students to interact with their poetry readings.
Rhyme Schemes
Interactive Worksheet
Rhyme Schemes
Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Interactive Worksheet
Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
Worksheet
Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
Your young poet can review the important concepts of rhyme and rhythm by completing some practice exercises based on this poem.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'
Worksheet
Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'
Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Analyze texts or poems for literary devices like onomatopoeia, alliteration, and hyperbole with your child. Remind them that figurative language offers clues that something important is taking place. Once your child is able to recognize these devices in a text, encourage them to try using figurative language in their own writing!
A series of mini-lessons are a great way to introduce your students to literary devices like onomatopoeia, alliteration, and hyperbole. Help your students analyze texts or poems for these devices so that students will have the tools they need to use figurative language in their own writing — and especially their poems!
What is Onomatopoeia?
Worksheet
What is Onomatopoeia?
BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Alliteration for Kids
Worksheet
Alliteration for Kids
This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Alliteration in Poetry
Worksheet
Alliteration in Poetry
Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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