Longer or Shorter?
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Longer or Shorter?
Longer or shorter? Five pairs of things lined up at one start line: pencils, ribbons, nails, straws, leaves and carrots. Circle the longer one or the shorter one. Kindergarten, with an answer key.
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Longer, Shorter, TallerA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Compare two objects directly: which is longer or shorter, taller or shorter, heavier or lighter, and which holds more or less; read a balance scale, and order three containers by how much they hold.
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How to use this sheet
- Compare real objects before the sheet: line up two pencils with their ends together.
- Use the words longer, shorter, taller, heavier and lighter in full sentences.
- For holds more and holds less, pour water or rice between real containers.
Common mistakes
- Comparing lengths without lining up the ends. Start both objects at the same place.
- Thinking a bigger object is always heavier. A big balloon is lighter than a small rock.
- Thinking a taller container always holds more. A wide container can hold more.
