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Week 9
Homophones and Homographs
Homophones and Homographs
Homographs (words that are spelled the same but have different meanings) are another complex part of English word study. Continue helping your child distinguish between homophones and homographs by creating a list of each type of word.
When acquiring new vocabulary words, students benefit from activities that reinforce word meaning. Knowledge of what a word means will increase spelling accuracy as well as the child's ability to integrate new words into their writing. Have your students write funny poems or songs that use homophone pairs or homographs.
Homophones: I See the Sea!
Worksheet
Homophones: I See the Sea!
Use this resource with your students to help them learn about homophones and practice identifying correct homophones.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Practice Homophones: Siblings
Worksheet
Practice Homophones: Siblings
In this grammar worksheet, learners will fill in the blanks with the correct version of the homophone shown.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Multiple Meaning Words Worksheet
Interactive Worksheet
Multiple Meaning Words Worksheet
This multiple meaning words worksheet uses context clues to help kids make sense of homonyms, or words with multiple meanings.
3rd grade
Reading & Writing
Interactive Worksheet
Multiplication Strategies
Multiplication Strategies
Ask your child to name one method they use to solve multiplication problems. Do they like to use an area model or the standard algorithm? Have them write their own multiplication word problem and show how they'd solve it.
Teaching students a variety of multiplication strategies reinforces essential understandings, such as how place value knowledge plays a key role in multiplication concepts. Area models and partial products are strategies that help students see the computations within the standard algorithm.
Area Model Multiplication #1
Worksheet
Area Model Multiplication #1
The area model visual allows children to see the layers of computation within a multi-digit multiplication problem.
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Bicycle Multiplication Area Models
Worksheet
Bicycle Multiplication Area Models
In this worksheet, children solve multiplication word problems using area models.
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Multiplication Regrouping
Interactive Worksheet
Multiplication Regrouping
This worksheet is jam-packed with 2 pages of multiplication regrouping problems to help kids tackle two-digit multiplication.
4th grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Nonfiction: Main Ideas & Details
Nonfiction: Main Ideas & Details
Make sure your young reader understands how to find the main idea. Ask them what the text is mostly about. Probing with this type of question will usually get readers to talk about the central message and some important details.
Help students recognize the main idea of a text by asking, "What is this mostly about?" Be sure to choose activities that scaffold how to pinpoint a text's "big idea," as well as the supporting details.
Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos
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Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos
Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: Elephant
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: Elephant
Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad
Worksheet
Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad
As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Essay Structure
Essay Structure
Young writers might be delving into the five-paragraph essay structure in school. The first paragraph should be an introduction that presents a thesis, or argument, and each of the three body paragraphs should support the argument with a different point. The final paragraph should include the conclusion.
This is a great time to start teaching fourth graders about the five-paragraph essay structure. Have young writers practice coming up with a clear thesis and three reasons that support that thesis. They'll start to see how the reasons can be teased out into paragraphs.
Let's Practice! How to Write a Paragraph
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Let's Practice! How to Write a Paragraph
Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Map Your Essay: Graphic Organizer
Worksheet
Map Your Essay: Graphic Organizer
Young writers map out their essays with the help of this graphic organizer.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Write Your Essay
Worksheet
Write Your Essay
This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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