Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences
• Author's Purpose
• Text Structure

Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Foreshadowing
• Hyperbole

Nonfiction genre studies include expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include historical fiction, realistic fiction, science fiction, and comedy.

Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs.

Each book in this series features 100 “Minutes” to help students build basic skills, increase speed in math operations, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Each Minute consists of 10 problems of varying degrees of difficulty that incorporate a variety of skills. Each ten-problem reproducible can be used as a learning or testing tool.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance their overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Second-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of second-grade math instruction, including:

• skip counting
• doubling numbers
• place value
• three-digit numbers
• fractions
• fact families
• addition
• subtraction
• money
• calendar
• graphs
• symmetry
• multiplication
• perimeter
• plane and solid figures
• telling time
• measurement
• and more!

Second-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of ten classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening format. The quick, one-minute format combined with instant feedback makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding to complex situations and to the solution of realistic problems in each Minute.

2nd Edition

This new edition of the best-selling resource includes new and updated formative assessment templates, technology connections with easy-to-use digital applications for every assessment, a new section on rubrics and self-assessments, a new focus on scaffolding ELLs, and so much more! These ready-to-go activities—complete with step-by-step lessons, student samples, tiering tips, and reproducible student pages—can be used across the curriculum and provide valuable assessment data for teachers. 128 pages.

WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Each book in this series features 100 “Minutes” to help students build basic skills, increase speed in math operations, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Each Minute consists of 10 problems of varying degrees of difficulty that incorporate a variety of skills. Each ten-problem reproducible can be used as a learning or testing tool.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance their overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Fourth-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of fourth-grade math instruction, including:

• congruency
• perimeter
• angles
• patterns
• place value
• expanded form
• addition
• subtraction
• multiplication
• long division
• money
• graphs
• rounding
• greater than/ less than
• odd numbers
• standard measurement
• metric measurement
• and more!

Fourth-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of ten classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty, integrating problem solving and basic math skills. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening format. The quick, one-minute format combined with instant feedback makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships and apply acquired understanding to complex situations and to the solution of realistic problems in each Minute.

Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know! has all the information kids will need to survive in the workplace, wherever that may be! Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know!

Are you ready to get a reìalî job what kinds of skills are employers looking for when they hire someone? Why do some employees get promoted what will be expected from you in the workplace? Think you don't need to know these things in high school? Think again! These are the essentials today's kids will use in the real world, whether at an after-school job or as a high-flying professional.

Essential Skills for the Real World of Work: Things EVERY Student Must Know! is part of the highly-anticipated Careers Curriculum series, a line of educational materials designed to prepare students for the "real world" of work, starting in high school.

Highly encouraging and enlightening!

How to Teach Art to Children has it all-background information, literature resources, and concise step-by-step directions for 96 art projects that will help your students learn about the elements of art and then use the elements in the styles of famous artists.

This book is divided into two parts:

• Part one: Learning about the elements of art
• Part two: Using the elements of art

Teacher information pages provide:

• a definition of each art element
• a list of literature references
• fine art examples that demonstrate the element

Each project and concept is supported by:

• easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions
• a complete list of materials needed
• reproducible patterns

Practice makes perfect with these multiplication worksheets!

In this math workbook, systematic practice worksheets for a range of learning levels encourage students to master essential math skills, build fluency in basic math facts, and develop key math strategies. Practice tests included!

• 100 pages
• Author: Demetra Turnbull

Skills covered in this workbook:

• Basic Multiplication Facts
• Multi-digit Multiplication
• Math Strategies
• Practice Tests

About this workbook:

Designed for teachers with parents in mind, this workbook is perfect for the classroom and for home! It promotes student confidence, learning, and success and offers the ideal supplement to enhance or enrich any curriculum. Book features ready-to-go, reproducible activity worksheets!

This must-have math workbook:

• Includes manageable math activities that reinforce essential skills and concepts
• Meets standards and cover curriculum efficiently and effectively
• Provides a consistent, clear approach