Worksheets – Instruction Elective

The websites listed below all contain activities that I found that were directly related to concepts that I teach in reading or math. I have already printed and used a few of these activities in my classroom. As the year goes on I plan to use even more of them. These are wonderful resources!

Math Sites

http://www.rhlschool.com/math.htm

This site contains problem-solving activities. The sheets focus on holidays, time, money, fractions, and place value to name a few. All of the problems are ready to be printed out and require students to use their critical thinking skills.

http://www.edhelper.com/math_grade4.htm

There are great practice sheets for addition, subtraction, and multiplication. There are also quite a few printable story problems. Be careful though because you have to register to reach some of the story problems.

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/math/

You can access and print worksheets on topics such as Area, basic facts, decimals, estimation, fractions, geometry, word problems, and rounding. All of the worksheets relate directly to our fourth grade curriculum.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_4th.htm

This web site has many activities that relate directly to the skills taught in fourth grade. They are fun and interactive. Students can play games to practice facts, they can answer story problems online, and the teacher can print out ideas to use in the classroom. You can find almost any topic on this web site.

http://www.mathstories.com/strategies.htm

This web site offers a fantastic resource. It provides sample problems for all seven of the major problem solving strategies. Along with the problems each example goes through the steps to solve the problem using the given strategies.

On the homepage of this web site there are a few free worksheets that support these strategies. By subscribing to the web site you can access over 5, 000 worksheets

http://www.mathfactcafe.com/

On this site you can create addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and greater than/Less than problems. All you have to do is select the type of problem you want to create, fill in a minimum and maximum number range and choose how many problems you would like to have on a page. Then hit generate and your worksheet is complete. If you would like an answer key you can also print it.

Language Arts

http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm

This site includes worksheets that can be used to teach students to use context clues when reading. Another topic it includes is poetry interpretation. It gives a poem and questions to answer after reading it. The site also has activities that focus on reading comprehension, main idea, and making inferences.

http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html

Here you can obtain up to 30 free books. The books you will find here are on a wide variety of reading levels and change throughout the month. All you have to do is choose a book, preview it, and if you like it print it out.

With a subscription you can also print activities to go with the books. The books are both in English and other languages for ESL students.

http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/LITERATURE/lindas_links_to_literature.htm

You cannot begin to imagine the number of books featured on this site. It is absolutely amazing. The books are organized by the first letter of their title. The books on this site are accompanied by activities, discussion questions, literature circle guides, and vocabulary to name a few. The books on this site are on a variety of levels by well-known authors.

http://www.edhelper.com/Poetry.htm

Learn to write various types of poetry through this site. It contains examples of each type of poem and directions on how to write them. The types of poetry included are Haiku, Cinquain, Couplets, Limericks, Free Verse, Diamante, and Picture Poetry. This is a wonderful resource for anyone who teaches poetry.

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

You can use discovery Puzzlemaker to make many different types of puzzles. I think it is particularly useful to make crossword puzzles to use with vocabulary words in Reading. This website not only allows you to make crossword puzzle but it also allows you to make word searches, hidden messages, and many other printable activities. You can generate the activities or the students can use it to make these items.