Tracy Phelps

Elective #1- Instructional Activities, Worksheets, Quizzes, and Puzzles

I teach third grade math and ILA (Integrated Language Arts). One of my math classes is learning fourth grade curriculum. These sites are third and fourth grade level in a variety of skills, as noted.

ILA Skills:

This site gives activities for teachers or parents to print and use with students to help with reading comprehension skills. Skills include main idea, cause and effect, sequencing, summarizing, figurative language, inferencing, and fact and opinion. This page tells if the activity is fill in the blank, multiple choice, or another mode of answering.

http://www.edhelper.com/language/Reading_Skills.htm

This is a link from the above link that leads to a third grade activity on figurative language. Students must read a short passage containing an idiom and mark the correct choice for the meaning of the idiom.

In order to have access to more activities, one must subscribe to the EdHelper site.

http://www.edhelper.com/language/reading_comprehension_skills100.html

Third grade students study China as well as folktales, fairy tales, myths, and fables. This site provides three ancient Chinese myths with access to many more.

http://www.chinavista.com/experience/story/story3.html

Math Skills:

This site provides twenty-three printable worksheets for elementary school-aged children.

The link below provides six downloadable worksheets focusing on conversions of units of length.

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/Math/Math_Worksheets/ Units_of_Measurement/

This site is a teacher created site. Its home page boasts that they “offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.” There is an easy to use directory and links to various sections.

This link provides four links to printable area and perimeter worksheets for grades three to five.

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/go/search.cgi?grade=3-5&catid=486&t=printables

Multiplication to platonic solids and everything in between can be found on this site! This math site is easy to use with its’ search feature. In addition, 5,000 printable worksheets are located on this site!

This link provides links to varying levels of division worksheets. The links are divided into two groups (remainders and no remainders) and four subgroups (easy, getting tougher, advanced, intermediate, and very hard).

http://www.mathsisfun.com/worksheets/long-division.php

This site has a section for parents, teachers, and students. There are sections for games, activities, resources, and more.

This link provides links to various quizzes in multiplication which can be printed and used in the classroom. The quizzes progress from easy facts to more difficult ones. In addition, there are flashcards and times tables which may be printed from this site. http://www.multiplication.com/worksheets.htm

This site is math resource site for home schooling parents and teachers. On it, a user can find worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, games, interactive tutorials, quizzes and more.

This link provides a worksheet generator that allows the user to create worksheets where you convert decimals to fractions or vice versa. The difficulty level is easy to manage with the various options on the worksheet generator.

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/fraction-decimal.php

This site allows the user to create mazes and nine types of puzzles based on the teacher’s input of words and phrases. The puzzle generator then creates a puzzle to be printed and used in the classroom.

http://puzzlemaker.com/index.html

This site is targeted at math for grades one through nine. There are links to various products, users, and freebies.

This link provides a lesson worksheet for introducing the vocabulary associated with teaching probability in addition to some simple probability activities.

http://www.neufeldmath.com/worksheets/probability/Prob%20Worksheet%201_%20071102.pdf

This link is a worksheet generator that allows the user to generate worksheets on adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing fractions. The difficulty level is easy to manage with options of number of problems per page, like or unlike denominators, allowing or disallowing improper fractions, etc.

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/fraction/basic.sht