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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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April Tomfoolery Puns for Young Commedians
$3.50Add to cartApril 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 first week of April is set aside as Laugh at Work Week.
But wait! There’s more! All of April–the whole thirty days–is designated as National Humor Month.
Distribute this product to your students and prepare yourself for a long stretch of listening to corny jokes. Why not choose a few favorites and join in? After all, tomfoolery has no age barriers!
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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.
SamplePageIHaveWhoHasChristmasPunsSmPgs
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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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May Connections, Vocabulary, Poem Brain Teaser Bell Ringer
$3.50Add to cartAdd this two-part May activity to your End-of-School File and treat your students to a change of pace between test sessions.The first section, entitled Connections, presents sets of three words that can be connected with a common term related to the month of May. Looks simple, but it will have your students gritting their teeth!Next is a vocabulary challenge with definitions and descriptive clues that students can use to identify words with the letters M-A-Y or the phonetic sound.Finally, a graphic organizer leads your potential poets through the necessary steps for composing a May Poem.Full answer keys are included. -
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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Five Things You Didn’t Know about Thanksgiving
$7.00Add to cartThe five informational texts in this pack present unusual, but true facts about Thanksgiving—things you won’t find in the history books. Use them as a count-down to the Thanksgiving holidays or as part of a holiday literacy center.
Each one-page article is accompanied by 5 CCSS-aligned questions and 1 to 3 bonus questions that can turn into a writing or research assignment. Full answer keys are provided. Targeted CCSS skills are listed in the answer keys.
These texts are designed appeal to 6th-8th graders and address particular RI CCSS skills in these grade levels. However, 4th graders, 5th graders, and some high school students might also benefit from the material.View Sample Pages HERE.
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Informational Text for November: Pumpkins and a Thanksgiving Parade
$6.50Add to cartIn America, nothing says Thanksgiving and Halloween like pumpkins, and they are the first featured article in this November Informational Text Pack. Surprisingly, this common fruit (or is it a vegetable?) has some interesting facts in its history and in its present.
The giant balloons of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are the focus of the second article. Since their beginning in 1926, the balloons have exploded, floated away, banged into lampposts, and poured water on spectators. The balloons have been naughty at times, but the parade wouldn’t be the same without them!
Pumpkin Surprises has 14 CCSS-aligned questions and Parade in the Sky has 15.
For teacher convenience, targeted CCSS skills are located in the answer keys rather than on the question page.
Full answer keys are provided.View sample pages HERE.
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Informational Text: 5 Things You Didn’t Know about Christmas Songs
$8.00Add to cart“5 Things You Didn’t Know about Christmas Songs” is a set of five different informational texts. Each one features a little-known fact about a particular song.In many cases, events from American history were involved in shaping the song, and sometimes, the song shaped history. Think of this product as a history/music/reading resource.
The articles, each two-pages of text with 10 CCSS-aligned questions, are written for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders although some younger and older students will also enjoy the material.
Songs features in this set are:
“White Christmas”
“Jingle Bells”
“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
“The Chipmunk SongAnswer Keys are included.
25 total pages of text counting Answer Keys.
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Informational Texts: A Christmas Duo
$6.50Add to cartPoinsettias and mistletoe—two familiar Christmas plants—take center stage in this duo of original Informational Texts.
“The Red Flower from Mexico,” traces the poinsettia’s journey from a wild shrub growing in Mexico to the most popular potted plant in the United States and Canada.
“Kissing under the Hemiparasite” takes a look at mistletoe’s ancient reputation as a magical plant and its perceived mystical qualities that somehow managed to jell into our modern kissing-under-the mistletoe tradition.
Each article is accompanied by a variety of 15 CCSS aligned question. Full answer keys, including short answer questions, are provided.
Both articles are written for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, although some high school classrooms and gifted 4th and 5th graders will also enjoy the contents.
Great seasonal resource for teaching Informational Text reading skills or for skills assessment.
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I Have, Who Has. . . Fictional Couples Game for Valentine’s Day
$4.50Add to cartFrom Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the literary world offers a variety of couples whose stories mirror the romantic ups and downs of the real world.This I Have. . Who Has. . . game features 28 couples on 28 playing cards. Some, like Mickey and Minnie, live in the land of cartoons. Others are imaginative renditions of people with strange quirks, including the likes of Herman and Lily Munster. Romeo and Juliet are among the choice few who earn a special place in our hearts as timeless examples of true love.This selection of love-struck characters will have particular appeal to middle school students (5th-8th) Use this game to give their Valentine’s Day a little extra luster, even if it is based in fiction. They will be right at home!View SAMPLE PAGES. (Use the back arrow to exit sample pages.) -
Thanksgiving Bingo with Twenty-Five Playing Cards
$6.00Add to cartThis Thanksgiving Bingo package contains twenty-five filled, game-ready playing cards constructed from seventy-six Thanksgiving-related vocabulary words. The target words are formatted on the last two pages so that they can be printed on card stock, cut apart, and pulled from a container to call the games.
Great fun in classrooms, club meetings, and family gatherings.
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Christmas Bingo Package
$6.00Add to cartTreat your students (and yourself) to a game or two of Christmas Bingo on that last, excitement-saturated day before the holiday break. The only preparation required is printing the material.
You get twenty-five filled, game-ready playing cards constructed around ninety Christmas-related vocabulary words. The target words are also formatted on the last three pages ready to be printed on card stock, cut apart, and pulled from a container to call the games
Also suitable for clubs, family gatherings, or any holiday get-together.
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