Education World's Work Sheet Library includes hundred of free printables for use across the grades and across the curriculum. You will find a sampling of our printables below. Be sure to visit our Work Sheet Library for a complete selection.
Math Fact Practice
Fact Practice Work Sheets
Use these printables for addition, subtraction, and multiplication math fact practice. Coming soon: division.
Free Work Sheets
From TLS Books
Fractions
Reduce the fractions to lowest terms. Write improper fractions as mixed numbers.
Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits
Animals A to Z: Camel.
Ele-Middle Edits
Roger Maris, Muppets, Neptune...
Writing Bug
Story Starter
You have the chance to make over a room in your home. Which room would you choose?
Hunt the Fact Monster
Primary Hunt
September hunt #2
Ele-Middle Hunt
Hunt #2
Build a Fab Vocab
Vocab-u-lous! Activity
Words that begin with D.
Where in the World Is Mrs. Waffenschmidt?
Mrs. W: Week 2
Which African landmark is she visiting?
It All Adds Up
Puzzle #2
Find the missing numbers so "it all adds up."
Word Search of the Month
September Word Search
How many words can you find?
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Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Fair Game – Subtraction."
News for Kids
Check out our weekly news story -- "ripped from the headlines" -- for classroom use.
Learning Game of the Week
Use study skills, imagination in "Rewriting History" game.
Friday Fun
A colorful chain promotes teamwork all year long.
Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
Learn about Isaac Newton by cutting an apple midair.
From Our Early Childhood Activity Bank
Special Activities for Constitution Day (September 17) and More
We the Signers...
We the Kids...
I Am an Apple Tree, Are You?
Take a Taste of Apple
"Adopt" a Tree
Finding Apples (Following Directions)
The Math Corner
Featured Math Article
Get Real: Math in Everyday Life
How many times have students asked, "When are we ever going to use this in real life?" Discover more than a dozen great answers.
What's Your Angle?
Which meal goes to which restaurant customer?
Wendy Petti's Math Cats
Even Teachers Make Mistakes
Last year, a student caught me in a careless math mistake. I said, "This is the first math mistake I've ever made!" From then on, students took it as a friendly challenge to catch me making a math mistake.
Math Games
Squeeze Play: Review place value to 1000.
(Grades 2-3)
Math Mnemonics
Roman numerals (in order) for 50, 100, 500, and 1000.
The Writing Center
Create a Classroom of Writers Using the Meet the Authors Collection
Drive home the importance of each step of the writing process with real words from real authors.
The Writer's Notebook
Laura Nardi's third graders get the "write" idea as "memory joggers" lead to the "author's chair."
Writing Lesson #1
Write a sequel to "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." (Grades 3-8)
Writing Lesson #2
Create a play based on an Australian kangaroo legend. (Grades 3-5)
Writing Bug #1
Fame, money, or power -- which is most important?
Writing Bug #2
When was someone upset by something you did?
The Reading Room
Reader's Theater
Writer's Block
A student has trouble completing a simple writing assignment-- until characters from his imagination help him overcome his "writer's block."
Cathy Puett Miller:
Phonological Weakness and Struggling Readers
Learn why phonological awareness -- the understanding that speech and the sounds of language can be broken into smaller units -- is important to emerging readers.
Reading Feature
Free Voluntary Reading Pays Big Dividends
Teacher William Marson shares his success in motivating sixth-graders to read using a program he calls RFF (Reading for Fun).
From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web.
From the Science Machine
Use Amusement Park Physics to explore the topics of physics and forces. (Grades 3-12)
From the Reading Machine
Wizards and Pigs Poetry Pickle reinforces rhyme and alliteration. (Grades 3-6)
From the Math Machine
Da' Numba is a fun Web site for teaching addition. (Grades 1-12)
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1
Students take photos on a "digital scavenger hunt."
Teacher Lesson #2
Fun hands-on activity teaches outlining skills.
Teacher Lesson #3
Students "team up" to create, market a sports franchise.
Teacher Lesson #4
Students participate in a spelling relay contest.
Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents...
An Autumn Rhyme
Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Apples
Baby Animals
Bulletin Boards That Teach
Happy Birthday to You -- A color key helps students see in an instant who celebrates birthdays each month.
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 16.
Just for This Month!
See our September Month of Fun, September Word Search, and September Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this month’s holidays and special days.
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Awards and Incentives
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Fitness Equipment
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Stickers and Other Incentives
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Speak Up or Burn Out
The best way to fight the depersonalization and pessimism that underlie teacher burnout, says David Maxfield, is to take active steps to address and resolve the problems that threaten to consume us.
Ken Shore: The Classroom Problem Solver
Class Participation
When students speak up in class, they learn to express their ideas in ways others can understand. When they ask questions, they learn how to increase their own understanding.
Joe Martin: The Teacher Motivator
Go for Your (Teaching) Goals
Persuade yourself to buy what you’re selling by overexposing yourself to your own commercial. And what are you trying to sell yourself? Your teaching goals!
Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
The Secret Weapon: Getting to Know Your Students
Building positive relationships with students is the number one way to forestall behavior problems. The more students know and respect you, the more they will behave for you.
Leah Davies, The Teacher Counselor
Games for Elementary Classrooms
Many educators understand the value in spacing a variety of short movement activities throughout the day to help keep students’ attention. Quick games can be used to do the same thing. Included: Popular games to help develop focus, ease transitions between lessons.
Fred Jones's
Tools for Teaching
Weaning the Helpless Handraisers (Part 1)
Ah, the helpless handraisers -- students whose hands are waving in the air no matter what you do or say. Discover how to turn helpless handraisers into independent learners.
Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
Go, Teacher, Go
It's September and the lazy pace of summer has been overwhelmed by the quickened pace of school. On your mark...get set...hold onto your grade books and... Go!
Mr. Ivan:
The Principal Poet
"Don’t Call on Me"
Education World’s resident poet, Mr. Ivan, presents a poem that is sure to bring grins to school leaders everywhere. This week’s poem is "Don't Call on Me."
I saw on the news just this morning
That there’s a "Don’t Call Me" list.
That got my brain to thinking
Of a super kid-friendly twist...
Read more...
Getting to Know You
Years ago, when Freyja Bergthorson discovered that despite name games and other icebreaker activities, many of her 150 students didn't know the names of others in their class, she took action in a flash -- a camera flash!
Wire Side Chat
See Me After Class:
Advice for Teachers by Teachers
New teachers often feel as though they need to do everything right -- and end up feeling as though they're doing everything wrong. Roxanna Elden shares anecdotes and advice from her new book on surviving the first year of teaching.
Strategy of the Week
Responsive Classroom
Developed by classroom teachers, the Responsive Classroom® approach emphasizes students' social as well as academic growth.
Classroom Management Article of the Week
The Secret's in the Little Things: Simple Tips for Successful Teachers
Here they are -- 12 quick tips to help make managing your classroom a breeze! Included are tips for getting to know your students, communicating with parents, getting your day of to a good start, and much more.
September Traceable Calendar
Students will enjoy practicing writing their numbers and more with this traceable September calendar.
Smile! Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day
Teachers across the country and around the world are discovering the many valuable uses for digital cameras; uses that both engage students and make their own professional lives easier.
Tech Classroom Spotlight
Picture Perfect
Michelle Gay's young photographers use pictures as an inspiration for writing.
Alma Rowe's Gadget of the Week
SketchUp
This Google tool allows users to present ideas using 3D models.
School’s Parent University Graduates Active Parents
Rather than lamenting the lack of parent involvement, one Florida elementary school principal decided to reach out to parents and offer them a "degree" in how to be active parents. The school’s Parent University graduated its first class of eager volunteers. Included: An explanation of a program to develop parent involvement.
"Pizza Party Patrol" Delivers Great Attendance
Students who get themselves to class each day at one Virginia elementary school may earn rewards that are both tangible and tasty. The school’s "pizza party patrol" has motivated improved attendance in a school with the district’s highest mobility rate.
Newsletters ’R Us
Copy and paste this free content into your teacher or school newsletters.
The ABCs of Student Success E is for Empathy
Caught on the Web U.S. State Detective (Grades 2-5)
Fun Facts Volume #4
Parent Newsletter Template Back to School
Math @ Home What Are My Chances?
Parent Pointers Helping Kids Get Organized
Each week, we ask readers to cast their votes in The Weekly Survey. Cast your vote in this week's question of interest to all educators.
This Week’s Survey Question
Does teacher training, subject-area expertise, or a natural aptitude for teaching best prepare educators for the classroom?
Last Week’s Survey Results
Has the length of your students’ normal school day increased in the past three years?
Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."
Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn
Montessori is one of those words in education that evokes a little mystery, especially for those of us who haven't really been immersed in the theories or practice associated with the name. This book takes an unusual approach to introducing us to Montessori: It is really a teacher's first-person account of the experience of teaching using Montessori methods, together with enough theory and practice to make it possible for other teachers to pick and choose those concepts that seem most applicable to their own "non-Montessori" classrooms.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.
Case Studies for Teacher Problem Solving
With 37 detailed case studies, this book takes almost a Harvard Business School approach to illuminating the problems teachers must solve in classrooms every day. Certainly, reading this book would present a classroom teacher with a number of situations that, even if he or she might never encounter those situations exactly, should open up new avenues of thought concerning situations indeed faced regularly. An advantage to this approach is its open-endedness; the reader is inspired to think independently rather than prescribed definite solutions.
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If you enjoy Education World's weekly WRITING BUG feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet with 44 of the most popular Writing Bug story starters. Use these Writing Bug activities to engage your students in effective writing. Each writing prompt will spark students' imaginations, tickle their funny bones, and motivate their pencils.
Included: In this booklet you'll find these Writing Bug titles and many more:
If I Could Interview Any U.S. President...
The Best Lesson I Ever Learned
I Got a Postcard from Another Planet
A Week Without TV
The Best Invention Ever/The Worst Invention Ever
Plus 39 more Writing Bug writing prompts!
The Best of WRITING BUG is part of the Teacher Treasure Series, an NEA Professional Library Publication.
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A Little Wordplay
The roundest knight at King Arthur's table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
A rubber-band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a peach.
You Know You Teach Middle School If...
You write your name conspicuously on all personal objects, including your car keys, your masking tape, your textbook, and your chair.
You have seen firsthand what gum wrappers and pennies can do to a floppy disk drive.
You sometimes choose to pretend not to hear comments that were perfectly intelligible to everyone else who was in the room.
You find in your pocket a note with a drawing of Satan and two expletives that needed deleting.
Your colleagues claim you inspected a blank student agenda in study hall and said, "Let me guess: All your teachers have been absent for the last month and a half."
Curse Those Handwriting Lessons
One of the "biggies" of the third-grade curriculum is the introduction to and use of cursive handwriting. I couldn’t help but laugh when just a few days into the new school year, one of my students asked, "Teacher, when are we going to learn to curse?"
Little Johnny Strikes Again
World History Teacher: When a knight in armor was killed in battle, what sign was put by his grave?
Little Johnny: Rust in peace!
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Constitution Day (Sept. 17)
Every-Day Activities
Five-O - Guess the vocab word in this team game. (Grades 3-12)
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers’ Voices section of this week’s themed booklists.
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