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Month: July 2013

I Have, Who Has. . . Christmas Puns Game

July 28, 2013November 8, 2014 admin_taking_grades

  A fun I Have. . . Who Has. . . game featuring Christmas puns with special appeal to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Adults could also have a great time with these 28 cards at a holiday gathering. Download

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Palindromes for January

July 26, 2013August 29, 2013 admin_taking_grades

  What do the word “sis” and the sentence “Madam, I’m Adam” have in common? Both are palindromes–words, phrases, and sentences with individual letters that sit in the same sequence whether they are read forward or backward. With January being

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February–Idioms from the Heart

July 24, 2013September 28, 2013 admin_taking_grades

February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson. Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it.  Students

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February Bouquet

July 22, 2013August 30, 2013 admin_taking_grades

This two-part activity is a study of English words with tricky spellings, such as February and bouquet. The first set of thirty-three items focuses on everyday words that baffle us with their unusual letter combinations. The second portion, also with

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Better Late Than Never

July 20, 2013August 30, 2013 admin_taking_grades

Who among us, student and teacher alike, has not stepped over an unpleasant task and assigned it to an undetermined future date? For a select group, piddling around is standard procedure. Procrastination, it seems, is pretty much one of the

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April Tomfoolery

July 18, 2013August 30, 2013 admin_taking_grades

April Tomfoolery is a 40 item collection of puns with strong kid-appeal presented in question and answer format. Your youngsters can put them to use right away on April 1. Then the fun continues through another six days as the

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April Downpour

July 16, 2013August 30, 2013 admin_taking_grades

April’s designation as a month of rain is the anchor for this fifty-item brain teaser/vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to identify words that have the actual letters r-a-i-n or letter combinations that sound like “rain” within their spellings. Also included

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May Ditzy Dictionary

July 14, 2013August 31, 2013 admin_taking_grades

Children’s Book Week (the first full week of May) and Reading is Fun Week (the second full week of May) are the inspirations for the Ditzy Dictionary. Though they are necessary resources for reading comprehension, dictionaries have never made any

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Hidden Summer

July 12, 2013August 31, 2013 admin_taking_grades

Treat your class (and yourself) to this FREE, end-of-the-year vocabulary brain teaser with a related graphic organizer for writing. First, students are ask to identify words that conceal the summer terms GO, SEE, FUN, SUN, NAP, and EAT. You get

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Brain Teasers for Young Scholars: Free Download

July 10, 2013September 27, 2013 admin_taking_grades

This free download is taken from Brain Teasers for Young Scholars, one of our Word Works packages. The three activities are: OIC:  Students must answer questions with letters of the alphabet rather than words. Connections:  Tread your brightest students to

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