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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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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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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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