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Thanksgiving Anagrams a 4th-6th Grade Language Arts Activity
$3.50Add to cartThis 4th-6th Grade Language Arts Activity with a Thanksgiving theme challenges students to rearrange the letters of some rather strange terms to create ordinary words and phrases associated with Thanksgiving. Fun, challenging, and filled with opportunities for learning.
This file is organized into two activities with twenty-five items each. Full answer keys are provided.
Five pages of script including answer keys.
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Yum or Yuck? Thanksgiving Researchable Food Trivia Seasonal Bell Ringer Brain Teaser
$3.50Add to cartYum or Yuck? Thanksgiving Researchable Food Trivia Seasonal Bell Ringer Start Up
Just in time for Thanksgiving! Serve your students this two-course activity of researchable food trivia (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!
Six numbered pages including answer keys.
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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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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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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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End-of-School Bingo Game
$6.00Add to cartUse this End-of-School Bingo Game as part of your strategy for keeping things in a sane mode during those intense after-testing days. There is even some vocabulary to be learned in the process.
Everything is ready to go. You will need to do only two things: (1) Print the 25 filled playing cards in color or black and white. (2) Print the last three pages with the 90 end-of-school/vacation related vocabulary words and cut apart their individual squares so they can be pulled from a container to call the games. Students will need some sort of tokens–25 pennies, for example–to cover the squares on their cards.Print everything on card stock and use year after year.
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