Curated OER
Listening To a Guest Speaker
Pupils review the main points of note-taking to summarize the content of a formal or informal spoken presentation. They hear a guest speaker talk about a pre-arranged topic and take notes during the presentation. Next, they write a...
Curated OER
My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D.C.
Although this legislative process lesson is designed to accompany a specific text, it is valuable independently. Young learners participate in a picture walk (worksheet included) through My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington,...
Curated OER
Picture a Character
How would Jean-Etiénne Liotard paint the characters from "The Little Mermaid?" What would the main character from "The Little Match Girl" look like from Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes' point of view? After examining various paintings...
Curated OER
Mighty Earth Movers
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
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McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 5: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]
Help fifth graders reinforce their understanding of reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, fluency, and phonics with the exercises in this 230-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade 5 Treasures.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Bouba Kiki Effect
It may be possible for certain symbolic characteristics, like sharpness and roundedness, to cross language barriers. In this experiment you will investigate the Bouba-Kiki Effect to find out if abstract visual properties can be linked to...
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Playcomic
These are a lot of fun activities where you can paint a comic, finish a comic, transform a story to comic, fill out balloons to give sense to the story, and modify a comic and turning it into a story. Also with more than 800 elements at...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: What Caused It?: Student Web Lesson
Students are asked to be detectives while they read and to look for the cause/effect sentences in the paragraphs. In this activity, students read paragraphs and answer questions about it by either typing in their responses or selecting...
Thinkport Education
Write Now: Arguing for Change
Students are presented with a scenario of bullying and are asked to write an "argument for change" as a way to get classmates to stop bullying. In preparing their argumentative piece, students are guided to examine fiction and nonfiction...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Jumping Bodies"
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Magic in the Classroom" and "Jumping Bodies" share the theme of magic. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "World's Greatest Robot" by w.m. Akers
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Streetcar!" and "World's Greatest Robot" explore the nature of sibling relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
Read Works
Read Works: The Legend of the Goddess Tin Hau, or Mazu
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction passage focuses on Mazu and her power to guide her brothers to safety from a terrible storm at sea while weaving quietly in her house. Can she save them? A comprehension question set and a...
Read Works
Read Works: The Dino Express
[Free Registration/Login Required] Paleontologists in Colorado recently discovered more and different types of dinosaur tracks along the path known as the Dinosaur Freeway in Colorado and nearby states. This passage is followed by a...
Read Works
Read Works: The Club of the Century by Karen Kasland
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about people who live to be 100 or older (Centenarians), including the rising numbers of them, and what they have in common that could have impacted their life expectancy. It is followed...
Read Works
Read Works: Yawn! By Dan Risch
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article is about sleep including how much people need, why some people are not able to sleep, and some tips for overcoming sleeping problems. A comprehension question set and a vocabulary worksheet...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Brothers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between brothers Joseph and Philip and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Learning to Skateboard
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between a brother and a sister and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Field Trip" by Aditi Sriram
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Partial Eclipse" and "Field Trip" share the theme of astronomy. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Express Yourself
Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Facs: Communication Games
This lesson engages students in communication games. Students will learn how to play "Cosmic Motions" and "Silent Ball" to practice communication skills.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conclusions
This lesson focuses on writing conclusions; it lists and defines the parts of a conclusion: thesis recap, blueprint recap, and clincher and provides a sample of an effective conclusion with the parts labeled. It also offers a slideshow...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 6 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text and understand that a summary does not include opinions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Determining Importance & Summarizing Informational Text
These teacher resources focuses on why it is important to teach elementary students to determine the importance and to summarize informational text. It leads an activity to help teachers experience when and how we use these strategies.
Other
Grammar: English Basics Worksheets
Excellent and comprehensive collection of worksheets for students' grammar skills. Includes exercises on complete sentences, analogies, synonyms/antonyms, and more.