Intermediate

Reading Activities

  • 6th HMH As a part of our HMH curriculum and your student can login to their textbooks at home at the following link along with our reading curriculum students may login https://www.hmhco.com/one/login/ Students’ login information is the following; UN; student’s BISD Computer Login @bullardisd.net (ex. Johnw2@bullardisd.net) PW; this is the password students use to login to their computers at school. (homeroom teachers can provide this information if needed)

  • Students will generate questions about their topic. Students will create a plan for conducting research including identifying a variety of sources on your topic or issue. Consider the following guiding question::

    • What information may be available from the source?

    • Have students read a text and brainstorm possible recipients and reasons for correspondence that requires information. Have students select a recipient and purpose for writing. Using a relevant topic like the current COVID-19 Pandemic would increase student engagement. Students could write an opinion piece about remote learning and/or business closures because of the COVID-19 pandemic, or on whether knowing more about the virus is beneficial to our emotional well being, using research as needed (handwritten or digital options should be made available).

  • NewsELA Why Everything is Closing For Coronavirus Have students select a friend, family member, or public figure to whom they will write a letter requesting information. Direct students to determine the structure; business or friendly structure and mode of delivery; email, regular mail, instant messaging, etc.

  • Read a published article online or in print, write a short response as to the author’s purpose for writing the article.

  • Review an ad sent through the mail, on the back of an envelope write a short description of the ad and the author’s purpose for writing the ad, notice the font and images used.

  • As you are reading a book, use sticky notes to jot down key elements of the story and place the sticky note on the correlating page. Once you have completed reading the text, review your notes and discuss the story with a family member or friend.

  • Ask a family member in what city and year they were born, research what events happened in their birth city during their birth year. Write a summary of your findings.

  • Think back to your first day of school this year, write a reflection essay about how you felt that day.

  • Write a letter to your teacher describing your favorite things about their class and your least favorite things about their class. After you complete your letter, re-read your letter looking for edits that can be made.

  • Phone a grandparent or family member, write a reflection of your conversation highlighting what you liked most about the chat.

  • Act as a journalist collecting information from a family member about their workday. Jot down notes, question examples: Where do you work? How long does your commute to work take? What are your hours at work? Do you have friends at work? What did you eat for lunch today? What is your favorite part of your workday? Name five adjectives that describe your workday.

  • Essay Prompt: Think about all of the cool people you know and have learned about. If you could switch places with one of these people who would you choose, and why?

  • Read a text of your choice. Then, write to a friend, the author, or a character about this book or write as if you were the character or author and write to yourself.

  • Pick five adjectives from a text describing a character and explain how they apply.

  • Discuss with a family member or friend what aspect of a text read or hear confuses you.

  • Write a review of (or discuss) a movie based on a story.

  • Prior to, while, or after reading a book, research the book, its author, or its subject online.

  • After reading a text, decide who of the characters you would want as a friend, Discuss or write about why you would want them as your friend.

  • Keep a journal or diary of all the text read or heard. Include within the entry a brief summary of the text, personal connections made, or connections made to other texts. Draw an illustration to support the text.

  • Reflect on a story read or heard. Think about how the text might change if the main character were a different age or gender.

  • Write a biography of a character who most interests you most from a story.

  • Discuss with a family member or write about how a story of your choosing might change if the main character had made a different decision.

  • Pick the most important line from a text, write about why that particular line is important. Justify your selection with evidence from the text.

  • Using a notecard or small half sheet of paper, summarize what happened on one side. On the other side, write an analysis of what those events were important.

  • After reading a text, based on everything you know, what do you predict will happen next.

  • Read an article from a newspaper or magazine, write a short jot as to why the article interests you and what you learned from the article.


Math Activities

  • 5th Grade Multiplication Review Worksheet: English

  • 5th Grade Division Review Worksheet: English

  • 6th-8th Grade Would You Rather Activities: Part 1 and Part 2

  • 6th Grade Math: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-sixth-grade-math

  • Desmos - Provides a free graphing calculator for students and an Activity Builder for teachers to help students grasp math concepts from geometry, algebra, and calculus.

  • YouCubed - From Standford University’s Jo Boaler, math challenges for all ages.

  • 5th Go Math As a part of our GoMath curriculum and your student in grades K-5 can login to their textbooks at home at the following link. https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do Students’ login information is the following; UN; student’s Bullard ISD computer login @bullarisd.net (ex. Johnw2@bullardisd.net) PW; this is the password students use to login to their computers at school. (homeroom teachers can provide this information if needed)

  • 6th Go Math As a part of our GoMath curriculum and your student can login to their textbooks at home at the following link: https://my.hrw.com/ Students’ login information is the following; UN; student’s BISD Computer Login @bullardisd.net (ex. Johnw2@bullardisd.net) PW; this is the password students use to login to their computers at school. (homeroom teachers can provide this information if needed)