Problem solving short stories resources for Google Apps

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Holidays/Seasonal, Problem Solving

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

Holidays Around the World Christmas Escape Room Printable & Digital Activity

Created by

Not So Wimpy Teacher

LOVE this! My students had to really think while completing this last year...and considering how well their brains were working right before break, I LOVED it too! Can't wait to use it again. - Aillison Y, 4th GradeOMGosh!! This is awesome. It is totally worth it! Self-explanatory, has instructions embedded in the slides, very much a student-led activity. Thank you for making it! - Sarah S. This Holidays Around the World Escape Room is the perfect no-prep activity to help your students strengthe

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Short Stories

4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Worksheets Packet

Created by

Marcy's Mayhem

These 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade reading comprehension passages and questions packet will help you check if your students understand fiction, nonfiction, and paired passage text. This worksheets packet can be used as test prep, reading intervention sheets, independent work, small groups, homework, tutoring, and homeschooling. The product contains multiple-choice questions, short answers, and writing reflection pages. The product is also printable and digital. Challenge your class with these origina

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Printables

Also included in: 4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions, Multiple Choice

Math Logic Puzzles: 5th grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Created by

Math Logic Puzzles for 5th grade includes 15 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to build a solid understanding of essential 5th-grade math concepts. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.Math Concepts a

Subjects:

End of Year, Math, Problem Solving

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]

End of the Year Math Activities - Plan a Summer Vacation Summer Math Project

Created by

Love Teaching Kids

Are you looking for fun end of the year math activities? This summer math project will have your students excited about doing math. The students will plan their summer vacation using a budget sheet. They will have $2,500 to spend while on vacation with a friend. This is a great way to practice financial literacy with your kids. There is a Powerpoint attached with the flight information that is editable so you can change the flight prices and information to reflect where you live. Also includes

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Projects, Centers

Also included in: Math Project - Plan a Vacation Real World Math Project Financial Literacy Bundle

Math Logic Puzzles: 4th grade ENRICHMENT - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Created by

Math Logic Puzzles for 4th grade includes 14 higher order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.Math Con

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Math Logic Puzzles: 3rd grade Enrichment - [Digital and Printable PDF]

Created by

Math Logic Puzzles for 3rd grade includes 15 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------

Subjects:

Teaching With a Mountain View

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

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Also included in: Math Logic Puzzles: 3-5 BUNDLE - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Story Elements Task Cards

Created by

16 DIFFERENTIATED Half-Page Story Elements Task Cards! Each task card includes an original short story as well as open-ended question prompts for each story element including Characters, Setting, Problem, Key Events, and Solution.This resource includes the following formatting options:Half page task cardsFull-Page printable versions with lines for answersDIGITAL version via Google SlidesThese Story Elements Task Cards are differentiated for your convenience.The first set of task cards (16 cards

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

Math Logic Puzzles: 2nd grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]

Created by

Math Logic Puzzles for 2nd grade includes 16 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------

Subjects:

Problem Solving, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

CCSS:

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Circle of Control Lesson and Activities

Created by

The Responsive Counselor

Students need to understand what is inside their control and what is outside of their control. This resource is a great for effectively and engagingly teaching about the circle of control or locus of control. This is the type of resource that you will find yourself pulling out and using over and over again with students! Teaching about what's in our control is also a great starting point for teaching size of the problem, problem solving, and coping skills.You can use this resource as a companion

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Activities

Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Lessons | Guidance Lessons Bundle for Upper Elementary

Story Retell and Sequence Writing Prompts - Including Winter Writing Prompts

Created by

Lead in Literacy - Christina Mrs Winters Bliss

These story sequence writing prompts make the perfect NO PREP, differentiated, writing center activity. This engaging, printable and digital writing activity gives students practice with sequence of events and retelling stories in writing. Students use sequence writing picture cards to order events, then retell their story in writing using transition words and specific story vocabulary. Each printable includes a “Good Writers” editing checklist reminder at the bottom of the paper. The res

Subjects:

Holidays/Seasonal, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Printables, Centers

Size of the problem behavior task cards and worksheets social skills SEL

Created by

Miss Dee's Homeroom

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach you students to understand the size of the problem? Do your students often over react and engage in big behaviors to small problems? These social skills and behavior worksheets, activities and task cards are a fun and informative way to teach your students how to identify different problem sizes and learn how to engage in appropriate actions to solve those problems.This is a product designed to help students with autism and social skills defici

Subjects:

Other (Specialty), Problem Solving, Special Education

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Problem Solving, School Counseling, Special Education

Also included in: Social skills behavior activities worksheets task cards SEL behavior

Social Problem Solving Board Game for Social Emotional Learning Skills

Created by

Pathway 2 Success

Practice social skills and social problem solving with a board game! The game includes over 80 scenario cards focused on real life social situations at school, at home, with friends, and during activities. After reading the cards, kids will act the out the situation, discuss consequences, give three options, identify what they would do, and more. This game is great for students with social difficulties and those who are rigid and might get "stuck" in their way of thinking. Use this game to allow

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Games

Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Games and Activities Bundle

Size Of The Problem And Reaction Activities For SEL & School Counseling Lessons

Created by

Counselor Chelsey

Do you know any little learners who think everything is a huge problem? What about any kids that aren't sure how to handle a problem that actually is a big problem?Use these fun and easy size of the problem activities in your SEL or counseling lessons to help your students understand the difference between a big problem and a small problem and learn to respond appropriately. These low-prep activities are perfect for your individual, small group and classroom counseling lessons and include a digi

Subjects:

Problem Solving, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

Also included in: Social Problem Solving Activities For Social Skills & Size Of Problem Lessons

Growth Mindset Escape Room Activity Game Back to School Digital & Paper

Created by

Melissa's Teacher Mall

Growth Mindset Escape Room is so much FUN! The escape can be completed independently or as in small groups. The students participates in a challenge to escape the room of fixed mindset. The students work to complete tasks and solve puzzles. With the focus on Growth Mindset this activity is sure to please all. Genius! Follow-up with a lively class discussion. The Escape can be completed in one session or it can be assigned over the course of days. You can use as many or as few of the challenges

Subjects:

Character Education, Classroom Community, Problem Solving

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Activities, Games

Also included in: Growth Mindset Whole Class Game Activities BUNDLE

Thanksgiving Math Project Based Learning Printable & Digital Activity

Created by

Not So Wimpy Teacher

What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving in class or with your virtual classroom than to plan your family's Thanksgiving dinner? This project-based learning activity will not only have your students practicing their math skills, but it will also have them engaged in real-world applications! Your students will use their problem-solving skills to create a successful Thanksgiving dinner for each member of the family. Students will work within a set budget to plan Thanksgiving dinner which includes

Subjects:

Math, Problem Solving, Thanksgiving

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Also included in: Holiday Project Based Learning Bundle

Science Fiction Bundle, Sci Fi Short Stories & Movie Analysis PDF & Google Drive

Created by

Laura Randazzo

Take a trip to another dimension as you introduce your students to the delights and horrors of modern science fiction. Using the works of writers such as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Isaac Asimov, this two (or three, depending on pacing) week mini-unit will entertain and challenge your advanced middle school and high school classes.Student handouts are included in both PDF and interactive worksheet/Google Drive versions.Here’s the order in which I present these science fiction lessons, b

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Short Stories

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Lesson

Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Passages | Activities & Projects

Created by

The SuperHERO Teacher

This resource includes activities for 33 short stories and poems. The goal of this reading literature journal is prepare students to recall, understand, apply, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts while also using creative mini-projects to help encourage deeper thinking! This resource has everything you'll need to teach a short story or poem once a week for the ENTIRE school year. ZERO prep necessary! Answer keys for the short stories ARE INCLUDED in this resource. NOTE 2: This resource ha

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Projects, Activities

Also included in: All Things Reading Literature BUNDLE: Middle + High School Reading Resources

140 Early Finishers Math Brain Teasers | Fast Finishers Gifted Activities Bundle

Created by

Leah Popinski - Sum Math Fun

Solve all of your fast-finisher problems with these activities! This bundle of 140 enrichment activities is the answer to I'm done! Now what?! We call these early finishers or fast finishers activities. But really, these math brain teasers can be used with ALL of your students. They are ideal for morning work to get your kids "mathing".No matter how good we are at differentiating, we still have early finishers. We know that giving them more of the same work is not the answer. They need to have

Subjects:

Back to School, Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

MP1

, MP2

, MP3

, MP4

, MP5

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The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive

Created by

Laura Randazzo

If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand

Subjects:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Short Stories

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Worksheets

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2

, RL.8.4

, RL.8.10

, RL.9-10.1

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Making Inferences Worksheets 3rd grade 4th grade Inference Reading Passages

Created by

Marcy's Mayhem

Use these inference reading comprehension passage worksheets to practice making predictions and inferences in the text for your 3rd-grade, 4th-grade, and 5th-grade students. This reading packet is great for classroom use, tutoring, or homeschooling. This comprehension packet contains 8 passages that are focused on this reading skill. Each passage is a page long with 5-6 comprehension questions. The teacher can use multiple-choice, short answer, or digital(Google Forms). The short answer option i

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Problem Solving, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Also included in: 4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions, Multiple Choice

Size Of The Problem And Reaction Sorting Activities & Visuals For SEL Lessons

Created by

Counselor Chelsey

These size of the problem activities will help your students learn to react appropriately to their problems! Students will learn the difference between small, medium and big problems and how to respond accordingly. These no prep activities are perfect for your individual, small group and classroom counseling lessons and include a digital component.This product is part of a social problem solving bundle!**********************************************************************************************

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

Also included in: Social Problem Solving Activities For Social Skills & Size Of Problem Lessons

Fairy Tales, Fables, and Folk Tales Reading Comprehension with Passages

Created by

Danie Dee

2,000 + pages, including 18 stories, reader's theater, mini-books, author's theme, character analysis, using text evidence, word wall cards, context clues, story elements, reading comprehension graphic organizers, and much more! This resource will make literacy stations a breeze! After introducing a text to your students, there are plenty of additional materials for centers, small group instruction, or independent work. You will have months of instructional materials at your fingertips.This

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