Bell Ringers and Start-Ups
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Anagram Express for December Bell Ringer Vocabulary Builder
$4.00Add to cartAnagram Express for December Bell Ringer Vocabulary Builder
This group of fun vocabulary activities involves using definitions and clues to decode given anagrams (words with the same letters but in different order, hush and rush, for instance) and then rearranging them into terms from various subjects throughout the curriculum.
The file contains 5 sets of printable worksheets with 35 items each.
Full Answer Keys are included.
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Christmas Puns: I Have, Who Has Game
$3.00Add to cartChristmas Puns Figurative Language Bell Ringer Brain Teaser Game
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.
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Contrived Math Bell Ringer/Brain Teaser Tricked Out Problems with Ordinary Numbers
$3.75Add to cartThis 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, Contrived Math challenges participants to collect 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 sets of printable worksheets of twenty problems each.
Full answer keys are included.
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December in Alphabetical Order Bell Ringer Brain Teaser
$3.00Add to cartDecember in Alphabetical Order Bell Ringer/Brain Teaser
This mostly-for-fun holiday activity, composed of two printable worksheets, combines vocabulary building with December trivia. There are 33 items in set one and 30 more in set two.
Students are challenged to use definitions, clues, and research skills to identify a set of terms, titles, and names–the first beginning with the letter A and the last with the letter Z–all of which are connected to December weather, events, or holidays. The last few questions in each activity set focus on famous people with December Birthdays.
The last page is a bonus graphic organizer for writing based on the alphabetical-order theme.
Full answer keys are included.
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Puns from the North: Santa Takes the Pole Position Figurative Language Bell Ringer Brain Teaser
$3.00Add to cartDecember Bell Ringer, Brain Teaser, Puns, Figurative Language
PUNS FROM THE NORTH–SANTA TAKES THE POLE POSITION is a giggle-powered collection of riddle puns about Santa and his life at the North Pole.Youngsters will enjoy revving up their punnybones to go searching for each riddle’s pun-filled answer from a choice of four possible responses.This activity has two parts with twenty items each.Full answer keys included. -
Stuffed Words: A November Vocabulary Brain Teaser Bell Ringer
$4.00Add to cartKeep your students focused during those wound-up days before Thanksgiving break with STUFFED WORDS, five worksheets (35 items each) of vocabulary fun that challenges students to identify a small word “stuffed” inside a larger word–the KEY in turKEY, for example.
This collection of bell ringers, start-ups, brain teaser printables is appropriate for many grade levels and abilities, including gifted programs. The challenge increases from Set One to Set Five.
When they get stuck, encourage your students to identify a key word in the clues and then use an online thesaurus, such as the one found at www.dictionary.com, for example.
Full answer keys are included.
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Thanksgiving Anagrams A Vocabulary Bell Ringer Brain Teaser
$3.50Add to cartHow 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 file is organized into two printable worksheets with twenty-five items each.
Full answer keys are provided.
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Thirty Days Hath September Bell Ringer/Brain Teaser Vocabulary Skills Phrases with Numbers
$3.50Add to cartPhrases, 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 bell ringer/brain teaser, they are the stars.
Treat your students to a view of our language from a different angle with these 4 printable worksheet activities, 20 items each.
Full answer keys included along with a list of additional number phrases that creative teachers and students may use as resources for another activity.
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Yum or Yuck? Researchable Food Trivia for Thanksgiving Bell Ringer Brain Teaser
$3.00Add to cartYum or Yuck? Researchable Food Trivia is here just in time for Thanksgiving! Serve your students this two-course activity of researchable food trivia (two printable worksheets with thirty items each). Are the foods in question YUM or YUCK? With the facts uncovered, one must ponder and decide “To eat, or not to eat?” Plan for a few lively class discussions/arguments along the way!
Finish off the festivities with “A Holiday Special for Young Gourmets: a graphic organizer for creating a Thanksgiving recipe, without adult interference, specifically tailored for youngsters.
No cooking. No cleaning. No leftovers! Download and enjoy.
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Bell Ringers and Brain Teasers for Young Scholars (Digital Download)
$20.00Add to cartThis seventy-five page collection of original, challenging, fun brain teasers is designed with the young scholar in mind, but it appeals to adults as well. The material is especially suitable for gifted students.
The thirty-two activity sets are 30 to 50 items each. Table of Contents topics include: Connections , Animal Talk, Words to Color, Categories, Velcro Words, Verbal Hors d’oeuvres, and a Fictionary.
Full answer keys are included.
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Bell Ringers and Start-ups: Seasonal Brain Teasers and Vocabulary Builders for Young Scholars (Digital Download)
$20.00Add to cartAdd spark to you classroom with this collection of cross-curricula seasonal brain teasers. Some double as vocabulary builders while others require research (looking up answers–no reports!) Students and adults alike get lost in the fun. Suitable for middle grades (4-8) and some high school classes.
This product consists of 34 activities (one per week) of 20-35 items each and full ANSWER KEYS. Great bell ringers and start-up resource.
Topics include We’re Back (2 sets), Help Wanted (2 sets), Body Parts (4 sets), Stuffed Words (5 sets),Anagram Express (5 sets), In First Place (4 sets), Hail to the Chief (3 sets), Straight from the Heart (1 set), The End of Ice (1 set), In Praise of Green (1 set), Scrambled Eggs (2 Sets) April Showers (1 set) Passing the Test (1 set), and Vacation Relation (2 sets).
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Task Cards for Halloween: E-e-e-e! Spelling
$4.00Add to cartEarly each October, I start seeing signs all over the place, “Workers Needed for Haunted Cemetary,” or “Haunted Cematary 2 mi.”
Years ago, someone clued me in on the spelling ditty that goes, “She cried E-E-E! when she passed the cEmEtEry,” so naturally I always notice and obsess over these public displays of bad spelling. I was on the verge of purchasing one of those huge permanent black magic markers (the other teacher’s pet) and turning loose my desire to correct when I was distracted by the realization that many words have 3 e’s in their spellings. Then I found a bunch of 4-e words. To my surprise, I Googled-up a group of 5-e’s. The community’s bad spellers were spared, and I had an idea for a fun Halloween spelling activity for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
Of course, all age groups and attitudes are invited to have a go at E-e-e-e!! Spelling!View SAMPLE CARDS
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Disguised Digits: Greek and Latin Base Words in Numbers
$4.00Add to cartThe worksheets in this three-part, ten-page activity are a compact study of selected Greek and Latin base words that function in our vocabulary as NUMBERS.
The first section, focusing on UNI–, BI–, and TRI–, begins with background information (see sample pages for full script) and flows into the identification of thirty-eight different words formed from these word parts.
The second lesson targets NINE MORE counting base words, including QUAD–, OCTO–, DEC–, and MONO–, and presents fifty of their descents now functioning as English terms.
In the third portion, students use the base-word concept to write twenty programmed sentences with both real and created terms.
Full answer keys are included.
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