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Week 3
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms & Antonyms
Learning synonyms and antonyms can help your child understand new vocabulary words. Start by showing them a list of synonyms for commonly used words, like 'bad'. Then encourage your child to find some of the synonyms they learned in their reading.
Learning synonyms and antonyms can help students understand new vocabulary words. Start by introducing synonyms for commonly used words, like 'bad'. Then encourage students to find some of the synonyms they learned in their reading or ask them to use the synonyms in their writing.
Wishing for Synonyms
Worksheet
Wishing for Synonyms
Make a wish! Learners practice sorting synonyms for health, happiness, and wealth in this extra-magical grammar worksheet.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Review: Synonyms and Antonyms
Worksheet
Review: Synonyms and Antonyms
Fourth and fifth graders will identify and use synonyms and antonyms in this engaging practice worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Synonyms for Bad
Worksheet
Synonyms for Bad
With this worksheet, your child will learn 28 synonyms for bad, plus practice grammar and their new words.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Use number lines to help your child build number sense and familiarity with place value as they add and subtract decimals. Then, when they are ready, challenge your child to solve word problems and math puzzles.
Use manipulatives and number lines to help your students build number sense and familiarity with place value. Then, when they are ready, challenge your students to solve word problems and math puzzles using what they know about decimals.
Add and Subtract Decimals on a Number Line
Worksheet
Add and Subtract Decimals on a Number Line
In this worksheet, children use number lines to practice adding and subtracting decimals to the tenths and hundredths place.
5th grade
Math
Worksheet
Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
Lesson plan
Decimals, Decimals, Decimals!
This lesson combines three essential skills in one entertaining game! Students will need to add, subtract, and understand place value with decimals.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Decimal Comparisons
Lesson plan
Decimal Comparisons
Make decimal comparisons! Your students will focus on comparing decimals and using necessary language to say their comparisons. Use this lesson by itself or use it as support for the Decimals, Decimals, Decimals lesson.
5th grade
Math
Lesson plan
Summarizing & Understanding Texts
Summarizing & Understanding Texts
When your child is done reading a chapter or a short book, ask them to summarize the story or chapter. Having your child summarize the reading can be hard for them because it asks them to choose only the most important ideas in the story and leave out some details or facts, even if they are really interesting. But, summarizing is great practice for them because they can share what they learned and practice sharing their ideas aloud.
Asking your students to summarize the text they read is a great way to assess their understanding of the main ideas and topics throughout the passage. The details students include or omit in their summaries can tell you about how much they understand the text.
Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
Worksheet
Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details
Lesson plan
Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details
Capture the tip of the iceberg! Use this lesson plan to teach your students to summarize nonfiction texts by noting the “tip of the iceberg,” also known as the main idea. Students will identify and sequence them.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts
Lesson plan
Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts
Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Writing Process: Editing
The Writing Process: Editing
When your child finishes a writing piece in his homework, have them edit it by mark misspelled words, grammar mistakes, and other elements they'd like to change.
After writing personal stories, students can have mini-conferences with their peers to help check for grammatical mistakes. Students can read their writing to each other and focus on one topic to highlight in each piece of writing, whether it be punctuation, sentence length or variety, or spelling errors.
Rainbow Editing
Activity
Rainbow Editing
Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Activity
Editing for Capitalization and Punctuation
Lesson plan
Editing for Capitalization and Punctuation
Students often understand the basic conventions of writing, but may need support in incorporating these skills into their work. In this lesson, students will review some of the more common capitalization and punctuation errors and apply their editing skills to real writing.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Editing Checklist
Worksheet
Editing Checklist
Help students cover proper punctuation, capital letters, grammar and spelling with this editing checklist as they edit their peer's work.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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