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Help your students learn interesting and important facts about Veterans Day with an engaging scavenger hunt activity.

Written for more advanced readers or to be used as a guided classroom activity, this article gives details about Diwali and its celebrations as well as the story behind the holiday.

Teach students the basics of Diwali with this nonfiction passage. For those at a 4th grade or higher reading level, it makes great independent work. For those at lower levels, you may wish to read the article as a group and have them answer the questions either independently or together.

If your students enjoy coloring in rangolis, here is another Diwali-themed coloring page with one!

This rangoli coloring page features diyas around an intricate design.

This Diwali word search is a bit harder than our easy version. It features longer and more advanced terms such as Princess Sita, Prince Rama, enlightenment, incarnation, and Narakasura.

Look for words like thankfulness, rangolis, lunar, moon, and more in this Diwali-themed word search.

Diwali's date is based on the phases of the moon. It always happens during the new moon. With this worksheet, students will fill in the different phases of the moon and write the date that Diwali falls on this year.

Students can color the pictures, write the vocabulary words to complete the sentences, and cut out and attach the pages to create their very own Diwali mini book.

This worksheet gives students a brief description of what a rangoli is and instructs them to design their own. With a dotted grid, students can easily include flowers, diyas, or other design elements in their rangoli.

Use this Venn diagram to compare and contrast Diwali to another holiday, noting both similarities and differences.

Use your favorite shades to color in this intricate rangoli design.

Teach your students how the words diya, rangoli, gift, and feast relate to Diwali, and have them practice tracing and writing the words on this worksheet.

Add or subtract to find solutions to all of the problems on the page. Then color according to the key to create a beautiful rangoli.

Test your students' knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary terms from this section with a fun crossword puzzle activity.

Read the quotes from chapters 3 and 4 and identify which character said them.

Make sure your students understand the vocabulary words for chapters 3 and 4 of The Outsiders with this word scramble activity.

Use the clues to complete this crossword puzzle with words from chapters 10 through 12 of the novel. Terms include tormented, riveted, recuperation, cavernous, and more.

Practice the vocabulary words and definitions for this section of Esperanza Rising with these cards. The following words are included: listless, cope, penetrating, cavernous, riveted, suppleness, susceptible, tormented, squalor, recuperation, accompanied, and remnants.

Match the vocabulary words from this section of the novel to their correct definitions by writing the corresponding letters on the lines.

This reading comprehension packet for chapters 10 through 12 of Esperanza Rising includes a mix of short answer and multiple choice questions about the content of this section of the book.

With this writing prompt, students will think about how Esperanza helps Marta hide in chapter 12. They will explain how and why she helped Marta and how her actions show character growth.

With this writing prompt, students will reflect on the symbolism of mountains and valleys in the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan.

Find volume of 3-dimensional figures, answer word problems, use fraction bars, and more with this week's 6th grade Math Buzz!

Keep up with daily math practice and review by using our 6th grade Math Buzz worksheets.

Factor expressions, rewrite expressions as powers of 10 with exponents, find volume of composite shapes, and much more with this week's 6th grade Math Buzz worksheets.

This week's 6th Grade Math Buzz worksheets require students to be able to write algebraic expressions, understand coordinate grids, find greatest common factors, and much more.

Keep those ELA skills fresh with these daily language arts review worksheets, written specifically with 6th grade standards in mind.

Review homophones, prefixes, vague pronouns, and many more 6th grade ELA concepts with this week's set of 6th grade ELA Buzz worksheets.

You might be near the end of the school year, but that doesn't mean it's time to stop reviewing key math concepts from the year! Practice counting, adding, subtracting, using tens frames, identifying shapes, and more!

This week, students will work with tens frames, trace shapes, complete addition and subtraction sentences, and more!

Count to 20, trace and identify shapes by their attributes, and much more with these Kindergarten Math Buzz daily review worksheets.

Identify shapes with certain attributes, choose the longer of two objects, make subtraction sentences, and more with this week's Math Buzz.

Write basic addition sentences, fill in missing numbers in subtraction facts, identify objects of the same size, and more with this week's set of Math Buzz worksheets.

Engaging visuals help students practice basic math skills like addition, subtraction, and size recognition.

Our kindergarten Math Buzz worksheets use visuals to engage students in basic math practice, from subtraction of objects to tens frames.

Practice subtraction, understanding more and fewer than, and other important kindergarten math skills.

Work on addition, subtraction, counting, and more with this week's set of daily math review.

Review counting, basic subtraction, the concepts of bigger and smaller, and more with this week's Kindergarten Math Buzz.

Review important math skills daily with our Math Buzz activities. This week's grade 6 worksheets reinforce skills involving writing statistical questions, reading line plots, equivalent expressions, and more.

Review important math skills for sixth graders with this week's set of daily review worksheets. Skills include reflections, statistical questions, and exponents.

Use context clues and your knowledge of the vocabulary terms from this section of the book to complete this worksheet.

The vocabulary words for this section are sophisticated, aloofness, ornery, broad, weed, hilt, finality, apprehensive, contemptuously, groggy, reformatory, and premonition. Use these vocabulary cards to help practice the terms.

These reading comprehension questions cover chapters 3 and 4 of The Outsiders and include short response and multiple choice questions involving theme, context clues, symbolism, and more.

In this extended response activity, students will describe the violent interaction in the park between the greasers and Socs. They will also explain how it differs from student disagreements today, how it is similar, and delve into the details of confrontation among groups.

In chapter 4, Ponyboy and Johnny decide to run away rather than seek help from authorities or family members. With this extended response worksheet, students will consider how their socioeconomic status and family experiences likely shaped this choice.

This writing prompt asks students to reflect on the significance of the argument between Darry and Ponyboy, describe the argument, and tell what it reveals about the characters.

This printout prompts students to write about the interaction that takes place between Bob, Randy, Cherry, and Marcia in chapter 3, focusing on its reflection of societal expectation of gender roles during the time period.

Once students have finished reading chapter 3, they can complete this graphic organizer on Johnny and Ponyboy's home lives and family relationships.

Read a short passage about S. E. Hinton and what inspired her to write The Outsiders. Then read some historical background about the 1960s and answer the questions.