A compound words activity where 1st to 3rd grade children match picture cards to word cards and build new words from two small ones. Answer key included for easy checking.
This don't wake the librarian sorting books by genre activity is a quiet board game where 1st to 3rd grade readers sort fiction, nonfiction and poetry books. Answer key included.
Using this Short and Long Vowel A Activity, students sort the short and long vowel A word cards.
Using this Muffin Tops Antonyms Activity, students match the cards to make antonym pairs of opposite meanings.
This author's purpose activity has 2nd to 4th grade students sort 24 book cards by inform, entertain, or persuade. A practice page and an answer key are included.
This syllable sort activity has 1st to 3rd Grade readers clap and sort 24 word cards by syllables, with header cards, a recording sheet, a practice page and answer key included.
Using Why Was it Written Author's Purpose Activity, students identify if the author wrote a text in order to answer, explain, or describe.
Using this Short and Long Vowel E Activity, students sort the short and long vowel E word cards.
Using this Battle Shape Battleship Activity, students classify two-dimensional figures by their properties by playing a game of Battle Shape (a geometrical rendition of Battleship).
Using this Sort It Organizing Shapes Activity, students sort pictures of 2D shapes into the category that have the same shape attributes.
Shapes have families too!
In 3rd grade, sorting becomes geometry. Students sort shapes by their attributes: number of sides, number of angles, right angles and parallel sides. The big idea is that shapes belong to families. A square is a rectangle, a rhombus and a quadrilateral all at once, because it has four sides. Kids draw shapes that belong in a group and shapes that don't, like a four-sided shape that isn't a rectangle. The click comes when they explain that a square fits in more than one category and why.
Third graders love a good debate. These moves get them arguing about shapes in the best way.
Give partners a set of shape cards and have them sort by one rule, like right angles. Then they mix them up and sort by a new rule, like parallel sides. Seeing the same shape land in different groups is what makes categories click.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withSort It Organizing Shapes ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Draw a shape and ask, "Is this a quadrilateral? Is it a rectangle?" Kids vote, then defend their answer using sides and angles. One shape a day keeps the vocabulary sharp.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCompound Words ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Build a quadrilateral family tree on the wall and add new members as you learn them. Revisit it whenever a shape pops up in another lesson. Coming back to it again and again makes it stick.
Why it works: short practice spread over several days beats one long session, according to a large review of learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it with3.G.1 Third Grade Common Core LessonCommon Core LessonsOpen it →Strategy games are perfect for shape attributes.
ActivitiesPartners hide shapes on a grid and guess locations using shape names and attributes.
Open Battle Shape Battleship Activity →
WorksheetsFind, color and count shapes hiding in a story-themed picture, then sort them by sides.
Open Dr. Seuss Shapes Worksheet →
ActivitiesOne student sorts shapes secretly by a rule. Classmates guess the rule from the groups.
Open Don't Wake the Librarian Sorting Books by Genre Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Compound Words Activity, Don't Wake the Librarian Sorting Books by Genre Activity and Short and Long Vowel A Activity.
They sort shapes by attributes like sides, angles and parallel sides, and learn that shapes can belong to more than one category. Quadrilaterals, including squares, rectangles and rhombuses, get the most attention.
Yes. A rectangle has four sides and four right angles, and a square has both, plus four equal sides. So every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square.
A quadrilateral is any closed shape with four straight sides. Squares, rectangles, rhombuses and trapezoids are all quadrilaterals.
Go on a shape hunt and talk about attributes: "How many sides? Are any angles square corners?" Drawing shapes that fit a rule is great practice too.
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