Reading Rockets: Get Ready for Summer! Ideas for Teachers to Share with Families. The school bell may stop ringing, but summer is a great time for all kinds of learning opportunities for kids.
Reading Rockets packed this beach bag full of activities for teachers to help families get ready for summer and to launch students to fun, enriching summertime experiences. In the beach bag you'll find materials you can download and distribute, but you'll also find ideas for things that you may want to gather and offer to students and parents and for connections you'll want to make to help ensure summer learning gain rather than loss. Ideas for summer learning fun Check out Reading Rockets' new summer website, Start with a Book. You'll find a treasure trove of themed children's books, parent–child activities, and other great resources for summer learning. Offer recommendations for active learning experiences. Encourage parents to build reading and writing into everyday activities. Summer trading cards. Encourage writing. Everyone's blogging! Be an active citizen. OWL. Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content!
We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. If you are having trouble locating a specific resource, please visit the search page or the Site Map. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.
For more information about services for the Purdue University community, including one-to-one consultations, ESL conversation groups and workshops, please visit the Writing Lab site. Mission The Purdue University Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement. Print Free Fourth Grade Worksheets for Home or School. Grade 4-8. Year 6 SATS Literacy Revision - KS2.
Literacy Boot Camp is a series of activities to aid year 6 SATs.
It can be carried out in class with your teacher, or on your own at home: Read instructions. The first 6 days of Literacy Boot Camp are free. Read more, FAQs and subscribe. All links lead to high quality activities/learning zones on reputable sites such as the BBC - Compare4Kids does not claim creative credit for any of these activities. Each day consists of a text or sentence level topic (such as punctuation) and a writing or reading topic, plus a printable homework worksheet. Year 6 SATS Maths Revision - KS2. Maths Boot Camp is a series of activities to aid year 6 SATs - by the end of Boot Camp, all past Maths SATs papers will have been completed.
It can be carried out in class with your teacher, or on your own at home: Read instructions. The first 6 days of Maths Boot Camp are free. Read more, FAQs and subscribe. All links lead to high quality activities/learning zones on reputable sites such as the BBC - Compare4Kids does not claim creative credit for any of these activities. Please note: the "Today's Warm Ups" are designed as just that - warm-ups - and are not always related to the topic of that day. Year 6 SATS Science Revision & Resources. Check out our other Boot Camps: How does Science Boot Camp work?
Please note: Science Boot Camp is free - you do not need a subscription to access it. Firstly, download past SATs papers from here: SATs papers.Work your way through the links for each day, then complete the SATs questions for that topic.By the end of Science Boot Camp, you will have completed every question from all past SATs papers.Please note: all links lead to high quality activities/learning zones on reputable sites such as the BBC. To link to Science Boot Camp, please click here to find out how to do so. Week 1 DAY 1 Food Chains DAY 2 Plants DAY 3 Life-cycles DAY 4 Habitats DAY 5 Micro-organisms Week 2 DAY 6 Sorting & Keys DAY 7 Teeth DAY 8 Human Body DAY 9 Gases,liquids,solids DAY 10 Material Properties Week 3 DAY 11 Changing state.