This free download (aligned to CCSS L. 3.4, 4.4, and 5.4) features the names of ten common animals that have multiple meanings. This printable challenges students to study a set of three sentences and choose the one that correctly matches a given definition. Since animals are the subject, this freebie can be used as part of a science class as well as language arts.
Full answer keys are included.
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This free download (aligned to CCSS L. 6.4, 7.4, and 8.4) features ten words with numbers connections. Students are instructed to study a set of three sentences and identify the one word that correctly completes all three. A final assignment challenges students to write their own sentence groups with five additional number-related words.
Full answer keys are included.
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This download is for those students and their teachers who enjoy solving somewhat twisted, definitely unusual (aka “tricked out”) word math problems. An equal combination of language arts and basic math skills. Participants must begin with common data, such as the number of days in a year, shuffle it around according to instructions, and come up with a targeted answer.
The activity is divided into two parts of twenty problems each. Full answer keys are included. Eight total pages counting the cover page.
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Add BACK WORDS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL to your bag of tricks for getting the new school year off to a happy start.
First, is a two-part activity that requires students to interpret clues and identify fifty terms or phrases that contain the word back. Full answer keys are on page 5.
Next, also located on the answer key page, is an idea for a WELCOME BACK word-chain bulletin board that students can construct on the spot.
Finally, a list of back words and phrases not used in the two activities and a separate list of school words and phrases are included as a teacher’s resource for assigning student-created puzzles, poems, posters, etc. Everything is free.
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Occupation ID challenges students to study sets of 5 words and phrases that connect to a particular occupation and then make a correct identification. Each of the two parts is composed of 28 items. Answer keys are included. Six total pages counting cover.
This product was written and formatted with 6th-8th graders in mind, but some 4th and 5th graders might also approve.
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Phrases, titles, product names, and exaggerations constructed with numbers–we quote them, hear them, see them, but seldom stop to think how useful they are. In this brain teaser, they are the stars.
Treat your students to a view of our language from a different angle with this two-part download, 40 items each. Also included are full answer keys and a list of 50 additional number phrases that creative teachers and students may use as resources for another activity.
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Howl-o-ween Puns is mostly for fun, but learning is also an intended benefit in this free download. Students can check out the condition of their punnybones by reading Halloween-related riddles and spotting the pun in the collection of possible answers.
There are two different sets of riddles with 25 items each for students to sink their teeth into. For teachers, I have added an extra page of Halloween riddle-puns and a second page of anytime-puns that can be used to construct another lesson or two.
Full answer keys are included. Eight total pages counting cover page.
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How does one change “grim lips” into “pilgrims?” With anagrams, of course.
Thanksgiving Anagrams challenges students to rearrange the letters of some rather strange terms to create ordinary words and phrases associated with Thanksgiving.
This free download is organized into two activities with twenty-five items each. Full answer keys are provided.
Five pages of script plus cover page.
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Though some youngsters may be initially flabbergasted, do give this lively lesson a try. What better way to provide insight into the fun and the power of words?
Feedback indicates that this product is going over well at adult Christmas parties, family gatherings, and in teachers’ lounges. After all, why should our students have all the fun?
