We worked on reviewing signal words for addition and subtraction word problems. While this seems pretty basic and I know that not all problems will contain these words, too many students don't understand which operation to use.
Each student created two word problems using two different signal words for addition and then for subtraction. They used Publisher, printed and then cut them apart. We glued them to butcher paper to display in the hallway. The kids loved that the number sentence was upside down on their screen. I showed them how to rotate it and some forgot to rotate it back.
When printing, don't forget to change the screen to two-sided. Below is an example of page 1 in the Publisher file.
Here is page 2 as it would look on the screen.
Wish I would have outlined the pictures so you could see them better. The first page text boxes were near the bottom of the landscaped page, the second page boxes were at the top.
Signal words we used were: addition: altogether, added, total, in all, plus, sum; subtraction: left, how many...more...than, how many...less...than, difference, lost, shorter, longer
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