This is a hands on activity where students can show the movement of matter through a food chain.
Students will take a card with an image of each object and place it in its spot on the food chain to show how matter moves through plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
On the food chain mat there is an image of mud (water/soil) and a space for a producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, final consumer and decomposer. Students can cut out the living things and place them on the food chain mat.
There is also a link to a digital distance learning version where students can drag and drop the proper living thing to its place on the food chain.
As an extension activity, students can tell a story orally or in writing from the point of view of water of their experience as they move through the food chain.
This resource includes 2 work mats for students to use who are struggling to alight numbers correctly when solving long division problems.
One has space for a divisor and 3 digit dividend.
The other has space for a divisor and 3 digit dividend with 2 decimal places.
Also included on the third page of the PDF are links to the work mats in Google Draw format so they can be used for distance learning.
In this activity students sort 4 examples of chemical changes from four examples of physical changes.
Included are labels for “Chemical Change” and “Physical Change” along with 8 examples that can be cut out and sorted to the correct label.
An answer key is provided.
Also included on the document are links to the activity in both Google Draw and Google Jamboard formats that can be used with Google Classroom for distance learning.
This activity presents a visual to students to differentiate the homophones there, their, and they’re.
Students can look at and discuss the example, and then there is a place for students to write their own sentences using each of the 3 forms with a space to include a picture.
Included in the document are link to Google Slides so students can participate in the activity virtually using an electronic device.
These simple, student friendly rubrics, based on the WIDA writing and speaking rubrics as well as the performance definitions for listening and reading can be used with students to help them understand what is expected of them as they move through the levels of English proficiency.
Students can use the rubric to score themselves, as well as each other.
Each domain set (writing, speaking, reading, listening) includes a PDF of the rubric, a PowerPoint, and a handout with four rubrics on a page that can be glued into journals.
The rubrics are appropriate for students in all grades 1-12.
This is the complete set of all 1000 Fry words.
When printed double sided, these flashcards of the 1000 Fry sight words have English on one side, and the Vietnamese translation on the back. It is helpful if you are trying to give meaning to words to students who are learning to read while simultaneously beginning to learn English.
10 Files are provided, grouped by 100 words each.
This product is the complete set of all 1000 Fry words. When printed double sided, these flashcards have English on one side, and the French translation on the back. It is helpful if you are trying to give meaning to words to students who are learning to read while simultaneously beginning to learn English.
10 Files are provided, grouped by 100 words each.
This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level gain access to the story of Hachiko.
The kit includes a little book at a 500L lexile level (2nd grade) that cat be cut and arranged for guided reading instruction. It is a modified version of the story of Hachiko by Pamela S. Turner
The kit includes an 11 page little book telling the story of Hachiko, a set of vocabulary word cards, and a plot map graphic organizer for retelling.
One of the greatest way to help a child learn to read and write is by using “Making Words” activities.
This word building set includes a printout with 8 of each 26 letters and 4 diagraph (sh, ch, th, wh) for cutting out.
A set of Elkonin boxes is included, which can be used as a mat with space for making words with three, four and five phonemes.
Making word lists are given so you can guide your students. The lists are in order of difficulty from easiest to hardest.
This set of biology vocabulary picture cards can support the learning of content vocabulary in your classroom. They can be used as a word wall, as individual posters, or as flash cards.
Two sets are included.
One set includes a full 8.5x11 page with the words, pictures and definitions that be displayed on your wall and are big enough for students to see from across the room.
One set include smaller flash cards (two to a page) with the picture and word on the front and when printed double sided will include the definition on the back. They can also be printed single sided for creating a matching activity.
Sets can be used as a classroom resource or the pdfs can de distributed to students as a study guide.
Vocabulary in the collection includes: active transport, adhesion, ADP, aerobic, anaerobic, anaphase, asexual reproduction, atom, ATP, autotroph, bar graph, cell cycle, cell membrane, cell wall, central vacuole, centrioles, check points, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, chromatid, chromoplasts, chromosomes, cohesion, constant, control group, controlled experiment, covalent bond, cristae, crossing over, cytolysis, cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, data, daughter cells – The cells created at the end of asexual reproduction and mitosis, dependent variable, diffusion, diploid, electron, element, endocytosis, eukaryotic, exocytosis, experimental group, facilitated diffusion, fermentation, G1 phase, G2 phase, gamete, glycolysis, Golgi apparatus, grana, haploid, heterotroph, homologous, hypertonic, hypothesis, hypotonic, independent variable, interphases, ionic bond, isotonic, karyotype, leucoplasts, line graph, lysosomes, matrix, meiosis, metaphase, mitochondria, mitosis, nucleolus, nucleus, organelle, osmosis, passive transport, phagocytosis, phospholipid bilayer, photosynthesis, pie/circle graph, pigment, pinocytosis, plasmolysis, polar, prokaryotic, prophase, proton, qualitative data, quantitative data, ribosomes, rough endoplasmic reticulum, S phase, scientific method, sexual reproduction, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, solute, solvent, spindle, stomata, stroma, telophase, tetrad, theory, thylakoid, zygote
These medium and large wall sized number lines can be printed out and displayed on the wall in your classroom. The medium sized number line gos from -30 to 30. The large sized number lines goes from -20 to 20. Pages will need to be cut and organized to make the number line. Included are small desk sets from -10 to 10 that can be taped onto students desks.
This bundle contains four printable guided reading books telling folktales from around the world.
All books include vocabulary support and a graphic organizer to support comprehension through use of a plot map.
The books include:
Damon and Pythias, a legend from Greece at lexile level of 400
La Llorona, a folktale from Mexico at lexile level of 400
The Legend of Xocomil, a folktale from Guatemala at a lexile level of 600
Ti Malice, a folktale from Haiti at a lexile level of 400
These books were designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level gain access to a culturally relevant folktale.
This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level gain access to a culturally relevant folktale.
The kit includes a little book at a 400L lexile level that cat be cut and arranged for guided reading instruction. It tells the folktale of Ti Malice, a trickster character from Haitian folklore.
The kit includes a 10 page little book telling the folktale, a set of vocabulary word cards, and a plot map graphic organizer for retelling.
This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level gain access to a culturally relevant folktale.
The kit includes a little book at a 400L lexile level that cat be cut and arranged for guided reading instruction. It tells the folktale of Llorona, a story well known in Mexico and Central America.
The kit includes a 10 page little book telling the folktale, a set of vocabulary word cards, and a plot map graphic organizer for retelling.
This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level gain access to a culturally relevant folktale.
The kit includes a little book at a 600L lexile level that cat be cut and arranged for guided reading instruction. It tells the Guatemalan story of the Legend of Xocomil, a folktale from Guatemala that tells about the creation of Lake Atitlán.
The kit includes a 10 page little book telling the folktale, a set of vocabulary word cards, and a plot map graphic organizer for retelling.
This reading kit is designed to support students new to English, special education students, young readers, and students reading below grade level gain access to a text that may otherwise be too challenging.
The kit includes a little book at a 400L lexile level that cat be cut and arranged for guided reading instruction. It tells the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias, a folktale found in our curriculums that may not be accessible to struggling readers or students new to English.
The kit includes a 9 page little book telling the folktale, a set of vocabulary word cards, a plot map graphic organizer for retelling, and a characterization web that can be used to support analysis of the text.
This bundle includes 5 worksheets (with answer keys) where students identify initial and ending consonants of cvc words that include one of the short vowels. All words are three letters, there are no consonant clusters. All images on the worksheet are in black and white for easy copying.
There are 5 different bingo games for each of the 5 vowels (a,e, i, o, u). Each bingo set includes 16-20 short vowel cvc words featured on the worksheets. The worksheets can be done with students before playing the bingo game to give students a reference sheet where they can find they words written in their own handwriting.
There are cut outs of the cvc words on the lists for random selecting.
30 bingo cards are included with each bingo game, enough for an entire class to participate. This set could be used for a small group center activity, with one student calling out the words.
Marker pieces are not included in the set, but anything could be used…from counters to pebbles.
This bundle includes a worksheet and answer key of cvc words that include a short u. All words are three letters, there are no consonant clusters. All images on the worksheet are in black and white for easy copying.
The bingo set includes the 20 short i words featured on the worksheet. The worksheet can be done with students before playing the bingo game to give students a reference sheet where they can find they words written in their own handwriting.
There are cut outs of the 20 words on the list for random selecting.
30 bingo cards are included, enough for an entire class to participate. This set could be used for a small group center activity, with one student calling out the words.
Marker pieces are not included in the set, but anything could be used…from counters to pebbles.
Words include:
bud
bug
bun
bus
cub
cup
cut
gum
hug
hut
jug
mud
mug
nut
pup
rug
run
sum
sun
tub
This bundle includes a worksheet and answer key of cvc words that include a short o. All words are three letters, there are no consonant clusters. All images on the worksheet are in black and white for easy copying.
The bingo set includes the 20 short i words featured on the worksheet. The worksheet can be done with students before playing the bingo game to give students a reference sheet where they can find they words written in their own handwriting.
There are cut outs of the 20 words on the list for random selecting.
30 bingo cards are included, enough for an entire class to participate. This set could be used for a small group center activity, with one student calling out the words.
Marker pieces are not included in the set, but anything could be used…from counters to pebbles.
Words include:
box
cop
dog
dot
fog
fox
hog
hop
hot
job
jog
log
mom
mop
pot
rob
rod
sob
top
tot
This bundle includes a worksheet and answer key of cvc words that include a short i. All words are three letters, there are no consonant clusters. All images on the worksheet are in black and white for easy copying.
The bingo set includes the 20 short i words featured on the worksheet. The worksheet can be done with students before playing the bingo game to give students a reference sheet where they can find they words written in their own handwriting.
There are cut outs of the 20 words on the list for random selecting.
30 bingo cards are included, enough for an entire class to participate. This set could be used for a small group center activity, with one student calling out the words.
Marker pieces are not included in the set, but anything could be used…from counters to pebbles.
Words include:
bib
dig
fig
fin
fix
hit
kid
lid
lip
lit
mix
pig
pin
pit
rip
sip
sit
six
wig
win