5th - 8th Grade Common Core Educational Resources : Page 65

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for eighth grade!

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

This worksheet focuses on decimals and how to write them in expanded form using fractions.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Encourage word sense, connotation, and wordplay with this creative worksheet where students personify a vocabulary word!

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

In this worksheet, children will learn about a few common resource materials and how to search for information in them alphabetically.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Show students how to add fractions concretely with fraction strips!

Up, up and away! Your comic book enthusiast will have a BLAST with this super comic book writing project.

This cheerful worksheet is sure to help your fifth grader tackle ordered pairs and coordinates.

Assess your students’ informational writing skills with this standards-based rubric for seventh grade!

This is a great challenge for sixth graders learning how to evaluate an expression.

The American West would not be the same without the influence of Manifest Destiny. Learn about the history of U.S. geography with this Wild West worksheet.

Ahoy there, matey! If you have a mischief-maker on your hands this pirate word search is just the ticket.

Help students learn how to recognize the beats in a poem with this worksheet.

Use this worksheet to help your child get more comfortable doing fraction word problems on his own.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

This worksheet will challenge students’ understanding of volume and the equation l x w x h = V. Then, once they solve the equation have them draw the 3-D objects. The objects will all be rectangular prisms.

Explore new vocabulary words in a fun and memorable way with this Vocabulary Acrostic graphic organizer!

Have students visualize their division word problem with part-whole model rectangles.

Can your fifth grader use his percentage and multiplication skills to help these waiters count their tips?

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Use sugar cubes, ice cubes or blocks to build each cube or rectangular prism. Then, count up the cubes and write down the volume.