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Are you looking for STEM challenges to do with a camping theme? Can your team transport 10 large marshmallows in the fastest time using a zipline? Marshmallow Zipline Challenge Materials Needed: (per team) -small plastic bathroom cup (1 per team) - large marshmallows (one bag of the 10 marshmallows per team) - string or yarn (for the zipline and cup attachment) - straw (one per team) - timer - tape and scissors This a really fun STEM Challenge that gets kids working to complete a fun and...

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Inference Activity Solve This Mystery - Back to School Team Building Activity: This engaging back-to-school team-building activity gives students the chance to work together to solve a real-life mystery about a buried ship discovered in the middle of downtown San Francisco! Start the lesson by hooking students with a hand-drawn video created by the talented John Spencer that introduces the backstory, sparks curiosity, and prepares students to dive into the inference activity. Watch the...

Need an easy-to-implement, meaningful back to school activity for your Secondary ELA students? This mystery student activity has students review symbols, metaphors, and similes to create posters that symbolize their personality. Students then use inferencing skills to guess who created each poster. ...

Novel Projects for ANY Novel / Novel Study - Eight projects to use with ANY novel as a final assessment or project. Each project is presented on a creative and unique worksheet that clearly outlines the criteria. This is a great way to allow for differentiation and give each student an opportunity...

Students need inferencing skills in all subject areas. But how do you teach inferencing? This post outlines 8 fun activities for teaching inference to students across grade levels! #inferencing #teachinideas #3rdgradeela #4thgradelela #5thgradeela #5thgradereading #4thgradereading #3rdgradereading #readinginstruction #literacycenters #literacyinstruction #readinggames3rd #readinggames4th #readinggames5th #5thgradeliteracy #4thgradeliteracy #teachinginferencing #teachinginference

Get students up and engaged in friendly controversy as they match evidence with the reason it best supports. This lesson uses research about the benefits and drawbacks of homework to have students work backwards to figure out how evidence connects to reasons, and eventually determine the overall claim. This resource is a great lead in for an argumentation unit, or for when students are struggling to see how text evidence can support an idea (fiction or non-fiction). It gets students active...

Extended plot structure activity for middle and high school English | Reading literature | Writing | Grades 5-12 | Fifth Grade | Sixth Grade | Middle School ELA | Activities for reading

An an entire week of step-by-step inferencing and drawing conclusions activities!

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Making inferences worksheets and activities aren't always easy for students, but there are fun ways to teach this challenging reading skill.

Learning on Halloween Day Getting kids to learn on Halloween is hard enough but on a Monday it's even harder! Thankfully it was a half day and we did this while waiting for the parade to start. I put together a couple of ideas I gathered from Instagram and came up with Math or Treating! I needed something fun because the content was not easy since we were working with word problems. The Hook I started by writing a hook on my chalkboard the Friday before Halloween. They really wanted to know...

Authors, illustrators, and publishers put a great deal of effort into the quest to interest readers in their books. Ideally, every nonfiction book should have a terrific title, intriguing information, sensational sentences, and interesting images (and by all means alliteration...only kidding about that last one!?) Because of the great response to my last post about nonfiction activities, I was inspired to focus this time on how to entice students to read a variety of informational texts...