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Month: August 2013

Words with Multiple Meanings–Animal connections–Grades 3-5 (CCSS)

August 25, 2013September 26, 2014 admin_taking_grades

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

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Words with Multiple Meanings–Numbers Connections–Grades 6-8 (CCSS)

August 23, 2013September 26, 2014 admin_taking_grades

  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

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Contrived Math–Tricked-Out Word Problems with Oridnary Numbers

August 22, 2013September 26, 2014 admin_taking_grades

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

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Back Words for Back to School

August 20, 2013September 28, 2013 admin_taking_grades

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

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Back-to-School Brain Teaser/Vocabulary Builder with Writing

August 18, 2013September 28, 2013 admin_taking_grades

       This back-to-school brain teaser doubles as a vocabulary builder. Students must interpret definitions and clues to identify words that contain the sound ooh, such as school rule, cool, and classroom. Answers to the first set of forty items

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Occupation ID–A Celebration of Labor Day

August 16, 2013August 17, 2014 admin_taking_grades

  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

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Thirty Days Hath September

August 14, 2013August 25, 2013 admin_taking_grades

  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

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Howl-o-ween Puns

August 12, 2013September 28, 2013 admin_taking_grades

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.

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Thanksgiving Anagrams

August 10, 2013November 8, 2014 admin_taking_grades

  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

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Christmas Song Titles on Gobbledygook

August 8, 2013November 8, 2014 admin_taking_grades

Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students must wade through the verbal muck and identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes–all written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into

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