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You can never have too many nonfiction text structure resources! This skill is incredibly difficult for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to understand because there are so many different things they have to understand in order to be successful with it. Students need all the practice they can get. 🙂 This no prep freebie (a printable pdf) can help …
What 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students couldn’t use extra main idea and details practice? Use these free pdf printable to review this difficult skill with minimal prep on your part!Download These Free Main Idea Practice WorksheetsThis freebie includes 3 activities that you can use to practice main idea and supporting details: A grouping words activity to help students practice …
No matter how often you teach comparing and contrasting to your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students, they can always benefit from more practice. And a freebie to help you do this never hurts. Being able to identify similarities and differences is one of Marzano’s 9 high-yield instructional strategies. So of course, we want to give our students as much …
Keeping students on task and engaged around Valentine’s Day is hard. The excitement – and the candy – that comes with this holiday can be a distraction for many 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students. Use this free Valentine’s Day fraction activity to help keep students engaged and learning while still celebrating Valentine’s Day.Free Fraction Valentine’s Day ActivityThis Valentine’s Day …
Black history – the influence of African Americans on culture and politics, the historical treatment of African Americans in America, and the impact different African Americans have made – is too complex and important to only teach in February or on MLK day. However, Black History Month is a great opportunity to spend some intentional time on that history. This …
A lot of point of view resources focus on helping students distinguish between 1st and 3rd person, but point of view is so much more than this, and this point of view freebie addresses this. When teaching point of view, we need to help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students think about author bias and how their own point of …
Finding 3rd grade math morning work that students can complete independently is a struggle. Different curriculums practice different skills at a different times. Often, daily math practice or morning work will expect students to have prior knowledge that they don’t have. This is frustrating to both students and teachers! This daily math practice/morning work for 3rd grade is scaffolded to …
If you are anything like I was, then you can never have enough resources to help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice word problems – and especially two step and multi step word problems. No matter how much practice my 3rd grade students got, they still needed more!No Prep Free Math Resource for 3rd, 4th, and 5th GradeThis …
Teaching theme to upper elementary students can be incredibly difficult. It is such an abstract idea. 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students need a lot of practice in order to truly understand it. This no prep freebie (a printable pdf) can help your students get the extra practice they need with finding the theme of a story.Get the …
Venn Diagrams are a tool commonly used in 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade classrooms to teach students how to compare and contrast. And while Venn Diagrams worksheets can be useful, they can also be used in a way that promotes lower level thinking instead of higher level thinking. Usually, teachers give students a completely blank Venn Diagram template. …