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Grade 2 and 5 Vocabulary Workbooks

We’re pleased to tell you we have completed the grade 2 and 5 vocabulary workbooks, completing the whole set of vocabulary workbooks for grades 1 to 5.

New vocabulary workbooks

In our workbooks, vocabulary words are practiced in groups of ten words in a lesson of separate worksheets. Each lesson starts with a word list of definitions for each word. Following are four worksheets that focus on practicing the understanding of those words through contextual work.

Review of a vocabulary lesson for grade 5 students

Let’s take a look at one of the lessons from our grade 5 workbook to give you an idea of what the exercises look like.

Word list

It starts with the word list and their definitions – presented in a dictionary style.

grade 5 vocabulary word list

K5 Adds Answers to Reading Comprehension Stories

You asked and we listened.

By request, we have now added answers to all our reading comprehension worksheets.

We’ve also organized the grade-level reading comprehension stories. Over time, as we added more stories, it was getting harder to navigate these sections.

For each grade, we have arranged the reading comprehension pages as follows:

Back to school workbooks sale

We're having a sale on our reading and math workbooks. All our workbooks and bundles are discounted by 25% today and tomorrow, September 9 and 10, 2019.

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New Grade 1 Reading Comprehension Workbooks

We have published 120 new leveled reading comprehension stories in our bookstore. Spread across six workbooks with 20 stories in each, the stories are level C to I. Answer sheets are provided for each story.

The reading comprehension workbooks in our bookstore are leveled from A to Z, based on the following text criteria:
-    Vocabulary words
-    High-frequency words
-    Average word size
-    Number of words per sentence, on average
-    Amount of repetition of words and phrases
-    Story length
-    Subject matter complexity

Let’s show you one of our new stories. This one’s from our level E reading comprehension workbook.

Sample grade 1 reading comprehension story

We provide the vocabulary words for each story in the right corner. The high frequency words are listed at the beginning of each workbook. The stories are written to meet grade-level requirements. The story below is an early reader for grade 1 students:

Level E reading comprehension story

Addition Tips and Tricks

Learning to add numbers in your head is an essential part of your child’s math journey. There are a number of methods students can use to make adding numbers using mental math much easier. Here we share some of those addition tips and tricks.

Friendly numbers

For this technique, imagine a number line. You make a ‘friendly’ number first and then add the rest. Let us show you how.

For example: 17 + 7

Making a friendly number means a number ending in 0.
For 17, that friendly number is 20.
You borrow 3 from 7 to make it 20.
That means you have 4 left: 7 – 3.
Here’s how that looks on a number line:

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K5 Learning Completes Grammar Worksheets with new Grade 5 Section

In grade 5, students build on areas started in grade 3 and 4, including:

Past, present and future tenses, and the introduction of progressive tenses (also called the continuous tenses);
Possessive, relative and indefinite pronouns, and using pronouns to express different points of view;
The ordering of adjectives in sentences, the use of adverb phrases, and the use of prepositional phrases as adjectives and adverbs;
Prepositions, interjections and conjunctions;
Improving sentence structures, including sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices;
Punctuation covering the use of commas, semi-colons and colons, as well as introductory words and phrases, direct address, question tags and titles.

Where to find the grade 5 grammar worksheets

You will find the grade 5 grammar worksheets in the grammar section of our worksheets pages:

Summer Books for Summertime Reading

By Sheila Welch

Are you looking for some great summer reading? Sheila has some tips for you.

Max and Marla Are Having a Picnic

Max and Maria have a picnic
Max and Marla Are Having a Picnic by Alexandra Boiger is a quiet picture book about a lasting friendship. Boiger’s charming illustrations fit the tale perfectly while adding just the right amount of whimsy. The only characters depicted are a young boy, Max, and his best friend, an owl named Marla. They set out with a picnic and the expectations of a perfect day. Max decides he needs one more thing to make their picnic complete. While he’s collecting flowers for Marla, she falls asleep. Max is upset when he returns to discover the perfect picnic food has been unwittingly shared with other critters, and Max blames Marla for spoiling the day. Max’s hurt feelings will ring true with K– 3rd graders – especially those who have had imaginary friendships. More reality-based kids will empathize with Max as they recall their own efforts to have – and be – good friends.

How to learn and practice cursive letter joins

The first step in learning cursive writing is to master each individual letter. Before practicing writing entire words, we suggest the next step is to learn and master the four main letter joins. Those four letter joins are:

bottom joins
bottom to c-shaped joins
e-joins – both top and bottom joins
top letter joins

You’ll find that we have a page on cursive letter joins in our free worksheets section.

Let us demonstrate each of these four letter joins with examples:

Bottom letter joins

The bottom letter joins are the easiest to learn, so start practicing these. The reason these are the easiest is that the pen stroke extends from the first letter into the second letter in one direction. There is no need for a direction change.

The letter joins covered in bottom joins are: ai, are, au, aw, ay, xh, ck, er, ew, ff, ir, kn, ll, qu, sh, th and ur.

What are coordinating conjunctions?

Let’s take a step back. First, what are conjunctions? What do we use them for?

What are conjunctions?

If we didn’t have conjunctions, we would have to say everything in short sentences.

I like to play. I like to run. I don’t like to sit still.

Simply put, conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases and clauses together.

Some examples of conjunctions are: and, but, yet.

In the above sentence, we can add conjunctions to make a more complex, elegant sentence.

I like to play and run, but I don’t like to sit still.

What types of conjunctions are there?

There are three types of conjunctions:
Coordinating conjunctions
Correlative conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions

We’ll leave the last two for another day. In this blog post, we’re going to focus on coordinating conjunctions.

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How to convert decimals to fractions

Decimals can be expressed as a fraction. Converting decimals to fractions is usually a two-step process:

1. Depending on the number of decimal places, convert the fraction using tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc.
2. Simplify the fraction to the lowest common term.

Let’s demonstrate this with an example:

The decimal is 0.4.

Convert the fraction

Write down 0.4 divided by 1

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Now, multiply both top and bottom by 10 for every number after the decimal point.

In our example, there is one number after the decimal point, so multiply by 10.

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