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 and subtraction math fact practice. Coming soon: multiplication, division.
Free Work Sheets
From TLS Books
Map Skills
Use the map key (legend) to help you answer questions about the map.
Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits
Animals A to Z: Cheetah.
Ele-Middle Edits
Gershwin, Titanic, Jesse James…
Writing Bug
Story Starter
You see a classmate being bullied by two other students. What would you do?
Hunt the Fact Monster
Primary Hunt
September hunt #3
Ele-Middle Hunt
Hunt #3
Build a Fab Vocab
Vocab-u-lous! Activity
Words that begin with E.
Geography A to Z
Places That Begin With the Letter B
Can you name all seven places?
Math Cross Puzzle
Solve a Puzzle
A puzzle a week, all school year long.
Make Your Own Work Sheet
Work Sheets for Autumn
Create an activity for any subject.
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Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
Develop a photograph on an apple!
News for Kids
Ever wonder why mosquitoes seem to like some people more than others?
Learning Game of the Week
Review parts of the body with "Human Body Simon Says.”
Friday Fun
Ellis Island simulation increases students’ understanding, empathy.
From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank
Special Activities for This Week
Mmmm! Hot Apple Pie
More Apple Activities
Johnny Appleseed
Meet Mrs. Apple
Leaf Prints
Sorting Leaves
The Math Corner
Wendy Petti's Math Cats
A Student-Led Math Family Fun Night:
The Planning Process
Take a peek as fourth-graders prepare for their school's first Math Family Fun Night.
Featured Math Article
And the Winner Is...Math Competitions for Students
More than a dozen math competitions or contests, including problem-solving and stock market competitions --- and the world's largest math event!
The Tall and Short of It
Can students figure out the names and heights of eleven students in a line.
Math Games
What's Your Number?: Decimal and 4-digit place value.
(Grades 4-6)
Math Mnemonics
How many feet in a mile?
The Writing Center
Writing Features
How to Write a Five-Paragraph Essay
Help students develop their writing skills with these step-by-step instructions for planning, outlining, and writing a five-paragraph essay.
The Anne Frank Wall Project
Jim DeLong's "Anne Frank Wall" celebrates the written word.
Writing Bugs
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Become a news reporter.
Time for a Change
If I could change one thing about myself...
Tomie dePaola's Adelita: A Bio Poem
Write a bio poem about Adelita. (Grades K-2)
Art Imitates Life
Study postcards of WWI; create postcards that reflect your life.
(Grades 3-12)
The Reading Room
Cathy Puett Miller:
Getting Parents in the Literacy Loop
Create a unique system for student reading success using techniques developed and proven in real school environments. Begin the transformation at your school through the marriage of effective parent involvement techniques and the power of reading.
Reader's Theater
How the Camel Got Its Hump
At the beginning of the world, there is much work to do. But while others carry the load, the camel refuses to help. So the magical Wizard of All Deserts teaches the lazy animal an important lesson.
Reading Feature
Checkpoints in Reading
The Council for Educational Development and Research (CEDaR) has created a list of “checkpoints in reading” -- for kindergarten and grades 3, 6, 9, and 12 -- to help parents better understand their child’s reading development.
More Lesson Ideas
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1
Young students create an Eric Carle shape book.
Teacher Lesson #2
Help students write excellent descriptions.
Teacher Lesson #3
Use math skills to create "measurement masterpieces.”
Teacher Lesson #4
Hands-on lesson teaches about an archaeologist’s job.
Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Autumn
Apples
Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents…
Awesome Apples
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 17.
Bulletin Boards That Teach
Boggle Your Mind -- Update this bulletin board once each week for spelling fun.
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.
Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Developing Positive Parent Partnerships
If we are to reach our goal of producing successful students, we must partner with the people ultimately responsible for those students -- their parents.
Fred Jones's
Tools for Teaching
Weaning the Helpless Handraisers (Part 2)
Developing and implementing a "Visual Instruction Plan" can reduce the duration of your helping interactions with helpless handraisers from 30 seconds to 5 seconds.
 Ruth Sidney Charney: The Responsive Classroom
From Our Hopes and Dreams Come the Rules
The quest for rules helps us achieve our hopes. "If we are going to learn math...make friends...what rules do we need?" Rules help the good things happen.
Ken Shore: The Classroom Problem Solver
The Unmotivated Student
When working with an unmotivated student, you first have to convince him that he can be successful, and then you must figure out how to capture his interest.
Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
Thank Goodness for Weekends
The concept of a day of rest dates to ancient times, but the notion of a two-day buffer between five-day work weeks is a relatively new idea. And what a sanity-saving innovation it is!
Mr. Ivan:
The Principal Poet
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...
“Gravity”
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 “Gravity.”
In school I learned that apples
Fell on Isaac Newton’s head
And made him discover gravity…
’Least that’s what
my science teacher said…
Read more…
Handprints Across the World
David Anderson's collaborative project helps students learn about other cultures -- and share their own.
Wire Side Chat
Celebrating the U.S. Constitution
Louise Leigh, the founder of Constitution Day, hopes some of the day's lessons give students a new appreciation of their heritage and freedoms.
Tech Lesson
Choose a Classroom Pet
Students analyze several classrooms at their school, interview teachers, research pets, and make recommendations about which pet is right for each classroom. (Grades 3-5)
Strategy of the Week
Parent Open House
Open house night is the perfect opportunity to make connections with parents. With a little planning, your school can improve open house attendance and make a good first impression too.
Classroom Management Article of the Week
Class Meetings: A Democratic Approach to Classroom Management
Patterned after family meetings in her own home, teacher Donna Styles established a format for class meetings that enabled her students to share their thoughts and solve classroom issues on their own.
Sites to See
Parent Involvement
Articles, information, research, action initiatives, and ideas about how educators can increase parent involvement in schools.
Folders Help Families Remain in the "Fold"
Parents of one Minnesota magnet school participate in a new parent information night in the spring before their children attend. They are given a valuable tool -- a family support folder -- that helps them adjust to and keep in touch with the new school.
Our Favorite Gadgets
"I love tools that are simple and do one thing really well. I call them 'tools for people who have better things to do than mess with tools.'"
Quick! Get the Camera!
Discover two dozen digital camera activities guaranteed to make life easier for you and more interesting for your students.
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)
Hands-On Reform Leads to Big Student Gains
When principal Stephen King decided that struggling readers needed earlier and better intervention, he plunged in with his staff to revamp instruction, assessment, and the curriculum. Test scores rose and the number of special education students declined. Included: A look at one school’s strategies to improve reading.
Two Crucial Conversations
Five crucial conversations drive educational excellence while preventing teacher burnout. The first two conversations are about unsupportive leaders and failing teachers.
Sneeze PSA
Kids research how people cover their sneezes in this public service announcement from Maricopa County (Arizona) Public Health.
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, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."
The Morning Meeting Book
A very practical book -- step-by-step guidelines for implementing a morning meeting in any K-8 classroom; 45 greetings; 66 group activities; and ideas for adapting the morning meeting idea to classes with a lot of second-language learners. The essential concept is to make everyone feel that it matters that he or she is in school -- including the teacher! This books comes from the folks behind the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
First published in 1984, this is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses encouraging movements to create better schools, reduce class size, and improve assessment and teaching, but also points out that many of the problems that plague the American high school have remained the same over the last quarter century. This is one of the field's modern classics, and no education library is complete without it.
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A Lesson in Suffixes
My fifth graders had finished a unit on suffixes including –ish, meaning a little bit. As we delved into reading, Tanya asked what the word debris meant. She had looked it up in the glossary and found it meant “rubbish.” I asked her what “rubbish” meant to her. She placed her hand on my arm, looked ever serious, and rubbed my arm -- a little bit!
Following in Mother’s Footsteps
An acquaintance of mine who is a physician told me about the day she was driving her daughter to preschool. She had left her stethoscope on the back seat near her daughter’s car seat, and she noticed in the rearview mirror that her daughter had picked up the stethoscope and was playing with it. “Be still, my heart,” my friend thought, “my daughter wants to follow in my footsteps.”
Then the child spoke into the instrument:
“Welcome to McDonald's,” she said, “may I take your order?”
Thesis Feedback
College Student: What's your opinion of the paper I submitted last week?
History Professor: It's absolute drivel.
Student: I know, but let's hear it anyway.
Little Johnny Strikes Again
Teacher: Can you name the capital of every state in the U.S. in 10 seconds?
Little Johnny: Washington, D.C.
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