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In grade 5, students start learning about exponent math and about the properties of exponents.  We created a new page of exponent worksheets in our grade 5 math section that covers introducing, reading and writing exponents.

Introducing exponents

This set of worksheets introduces exponents: the repeated multiplication of a base number, and shows students how to rewrite a number being multiplied by itself as an exponent.

We realize that it can be hard to know what grade the math worksheet you are looking for is in, so we have added the option to search our math worksheets by topic. Here’s where you can find that option on our main math worksheets page:

 

By Sheila Welch

Our book reviewer, Sheila Welch, has recommendations on books to read about adoption in recognition of National Adoption Month.

Worth

I read Worth by A. LaFaye over a year ago, but I have not forgotten those two strong boy characters. All the main characters are clearly defined and play important roles in this captivating winner of a Scott O’Dell Award for historical fiction. When Nathan, the narrator, is severely injured on his family’s Midwestern farm, his father brings home a boy who arrived on a train. Is this city kid going to replace Nathan? This question will grab and hold the interest of readers in grades fourth through eighth. Worth brings to life a period in the history of the USA that's unfamiliar to many children and even adults. From 1854 until 1930, Orphan Trains carried destitute city kids west to be placed with country families. Neither Nathan nor John Worth is happy about their drastically changed lives and their inability to turn back time. Yet gradually they begin to inch forward together, learning about and from each other. When a local range war flares up, the two boys cooperate to help curb the hostility, and readers will welcome the realistic but satisfying conclusion. The Aladdin paperback edition has an appealing cover and  contains thought-provoking questions for classroom or book club discussion.

We found some gaps in our vocabulary worksheets pages and have started to fill them. We've just completed the grade 1 worksheets and over the next few weeks you'll see further sections added to grade 2 to 5.

The new worksheets added to the grade 1 vocabulary page are:

Categorizing words

Students work on how to sort words into categories.

We've also added two new sections: suffixes, and root words and word endings.