Reference Sheets for Older Students ELA, Math and Science Bundle Print & Digital

Give your older students, ESL newcomers their own math, ELA and science reference charts to help them learn important concepts. Glue the charts to the faces of a file folder to create a portable reference tool that students can take with them to other classes or use for homework. A digital-ready PowerPoint version is also included the you can upload to your Google Drive and convert to Google Slides.

This is a bundle of 3 sets of reference sheets for older students.. You can see each in more detail here:

Reference Sheets for Older Students:

• ELA File Folder Reference Charts - Older Student Version
• Math File Folder Reference Charts - Older Student Version
• Science File Folder Reference Charts - Older Student Version

Ideas for Use:

• Handy tool for all students and newcomers, ESL, Special Education
• Great for homework reference charts
• Use for distance learning
• Use in your math centers
• Make individual student math offices just for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders
• Place in binders or math journals
• Perfect for English language learners and special education students
• Parents love them to use as references for their own children.

Math Topics Included:
• 2-D polygons chart (decagon, dodecagon, equilateral triangle, hexagon, isosceles triangle, octagon, parallelogram, pentagon, rectangle, rhombus, right triangle, scalene triangle, square, trapezoid)
• 3-D polygons chart (cone, cube, cylinder, hexagonal prism, rectangular prism, rectangular pyramid, sphere, triangular prism) 
• Coordinate graphing chart (coordinate points, quadrants, x & y-axis)
• Customary Measures and equivalents charts for length, capacity and weight 
• Formulas - area, perimeter, volume of rectangles & rectangular prisms
• Fraction bar equivalents chart
• Fractions to decimals to percents chart
• Greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to chart
• Key vocabulary words for math (+ - x divide, equals)
• Math abbreviations chart
• Metric measures and equivalents charts for length, capacity and weight 
• Multiplication chart (0-12s) with perfect squares shaded
• Number line (-10 to 10)
• Number line (decimals in tenths from 0 to 1)
• Numbers written as words (for check writing - both manuscript and cursive fonts)
• Order of operations chart (PEDMAS and BEDMAS-for Canadians)
• Place value chart (2 options: millions to thousandths AND hundred billions to thousandths)
• Protractor examples chart (acute angle, right angle, obtuse angle)
• Roman Numerals chart (examples from 1 to 1,000)
• Rounding helper chart
• Sample bank check filled out (classroom economy & real life)
• Thermometer chart (Fahrenheit and Celsius with examples)
• Time and calendar chart
• Types of angles chart (acute angle, obtuse angle, right angle, straight angle)
• Types of lines chart (line, line segment, intersecting lines, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, rays)
• Volume terminology chart (vertex, edge, face)

ELA Topics Included:

· Antonym – definition & examples

· Author’s Purpose (Persuade, Inform, Entertain)

· Common Prefixes (prefixes, meaning, examples)

· Common Suffixes (suffixes, meaning, examples)

· Common Word Roots (44 roots meaning, example Greek and Latin Word Stems and Roots)

· Figurative Language – definitions & examples (Alliteration, Hyperbole, Idiom, Imagery, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Simile)

· Homonym – definition & examples

· No Excuses Spelling List (100 commonly used words in writing)

· Nouns, Common

· Nouns, Plural

· Nouns, Proper

· Nouns, Singular

· Plot Diagram (Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution)

· Reading Comprehension Strategies – 7 strategies

· Reading, Making Comprehension Connections (3 strategies)

· Sentence Types – used for, example sentence (Statement, Question, Exclamation, Imperative)

· Spelling Tricky Words – meaning, example, sentence (its, it's / to, too, two / their, there, they're / your, you're / desert, dessert / weather, whether / are, our / lose, loose)

· Synonym – definition & examples

· Types of Writing (Expository, Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive)

· Using “I” or “Me” Properly

· Writing Traits (word choice, ideas, organization, sentence fluency, voice, conventions)

Science Topics Included:

• Body Systems

• Bones of the Skeleton

• Butterfly Life Cycle

• Cloud Types

• Earth’s Layers

• Electrical Circuits (series & parallel)

• Environments

• Five Senses

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Force & Motion

• Forms of Energy (electrical, heat, light, magnetic, sound)

• Fraction-Decimal-Percent Equivalent Chart

• Magnetism (attract/repel, poles N, S)

• Moh’s Hardness Scale

• Nutrition Guide

• Ocean Zones

• Periodic Table of the Elements

• Plant Cell

• Plant Parts

• Predator/Prey

• Producer/Consumer/ Decomposer

• Rainbow color order

• Reduce Reuse Recycle

• Simple Machines & Forces (wheel & axle, wedge, lever, inclined plane, pulley, screw, load, fulcrum, effort)

• Solar System Planets

• States of Matter (solid, liquid, gas)

• Temperature Conversion formulas & examples (converting F to C, C to F)

• Types of Rocks

• Water Cycle 

Tools for independence means more time for you to teach!