5th - 8th Grade Common Core Educational Resources : Page 100

What lurks inside this spooky house? Your 5th grader can invent her own scary story based on this haunting illustration!

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Help your students get to know a common prefix with this great graphic organizer.

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Decimal Multiplication Estimations.

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

A great title hooks the audience and gives readers an idea about what they’ll be reading. With this worksheet, your writers will learn different strategies for crafting titles for any piece of writing.

Students read background information about July as National Anti-Boredom Month and then respond to reflective questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Division with Fair-Sharing Language.

Young writers learn to develop strong narrative voices by getting in touch with how they express themselves given a variety of situations.

Can you hear that? It's the sound of silence. In this mindful listening activity, kids are encouraged to go outside and spend some one-on-one time with the silence that exists in between sounds.

Did you spill the salt? Step on a crack? Do you even care? You decide what, if anything, causes bad luck. Get the juices flowing for some creative writing.

Use the Care for the Earth worksheet to have students practice conservation for a week, then reflect on how small changes can create a big impact on the planet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Decimal Product Reasonableness.

Are your students stuck on multiplying fractions? Provide them with a visual strategy to conquer tricky multiplication problems.

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Your budding writer can review the parts of speech with this worksheet on sentence diagrams. He'll get a better grasp on sentence structure as he goes.

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Practice using a number line to round decimals to the nearest whole number, hundredth, and thousandth place.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Tape Diagrams.

Give your students the questions and organizer to evaluate creative work. Use this worksheet to guide student evaluations of their partner’s creative products.

Students learn to describe division as they look for matching cards in this information gathering activity.

Challenge your students to use advanced synonyms for interesting colors and build their vocabulary!

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Fifth graders who are new to argument writing need extra support. This worksheet provides a writing prompt and a list of important tips to keep in mind.

This "Treehouse Triangles" worksheets breaks down the geometric process into simple steps. Take angles from archenemy to acquaintance with this worksheet.