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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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Casey at the Bat and Dorlan’s Home Walk Doubleheader Poetry Study Guide
$10.00Add to cart“Casey at the Bat” and “Dorlan’s Home Walk” are the featured verses in this Double Header Poetry Study Guide.
No prep resources include copies of the poems (both in public domain), study questions, sequencing, vocabulary resources, author biographies, informational texts, research and writing prompts, compare and contrast activities, a bonus poem, and full answer keys. All student activities are CCSS aligned.
48 total pages of script including answer pages.
Student approval guaranteed.
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Pigs Is Pigs Short Story Study Guide
$12.00Add to cartPigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
A Short Story Study Guide by Margaret WhisnantTreat your students to this rib-tickling story about a stubborn station master, an equally stubborn customer, and two guinea pigs with opportunity to be themselves. The results are a hilarious venture into the law of increasing numbers.
Pigs Is Pigs is a personal favorite. I used it as a fun read-aloud in my classroom for years. I was delighted to learn that the story was older than I thought and in public domain. It made its debut in the September 1905 edition of American Illustrated Magazine. Star Trek fans will be interested to know that this short story inspired the episode titled “The Trouble with Tribbles.”
File Contents Include:
A Copy of the Story, now in Public Domain
Two Story Quizzes, Factual and Standards-based
Two Story-based Activities
A Vocabulary Study
Author Biography
Two Informational Texts
Thinking and Writing Prompts
Full Answer Keys
Suggested Teaching SequenceView PIGSIsPIGSPgs here.
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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 Pack for January: Drinking Straw Day
$6.50Add to cartThis Informational Text Pack celebrates Drinking Straw Day. Yes! No kidding!
Though not an official, Congressionally sanctioned, national celebration, January 3 is set aside as Drinking Straw Day—a time to acknowledge the importance of this little necessity. It also commemorates Marvin Stone’s patent for the world’s first paper drinking straw, which was granted by the U. S. Patent Office on January 3, 1888.
Get your students in the Drinking-Straw celebration mode with the three articles in this file:
(1) “Drinking Straw Day” chronicles the rather surprising history of the drinking straw with a focus on the two inventions that brought it to its modern form. This article has 15 CCSS Aligned questions.(2) “Addendum 1: Patent No. 375,962” presents the original diagram drawing and specifications included in Marvin Stone’s paper straw patent from 1888. The 10 companion CCSS aligned questions require students to study both the diagram and the specifications. Several questions refer to information in “Drinking Straw Day.”
(3) “Patent No. 2,094,286” includes the original diagram drawing and specifications from Joseph Friedman’s flexible straw patent in 1937. The 10 CCSS aligned questions for this document refer to the diagram, the specifications, and information from the other two documents.
A set of “Drinking Straw Facts” and another group of “Facts about Patents” are included as a little something extra that teachers and students can use as they see fit.18 pages of script. 20 total pages including cover and Credits.
Full Answer Keys are included. (Specific CCSS are listed here, and not in the questions themselves)
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Informational Text Pack for January: Peanuts and Peanut Butter
$6.50Add to cartThis Informational Text Pack begins with “January 24th: National Peanut Butter Day in the U.S.”. The article focuses on one of our favorite foods and traces its development from its South American roots, through its growth in popularity, to its debut as a homogenized smooth or crunchy commercial product. It also introduces students to “arachibutyrophobia,” the terrible, awful, debilitating fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of one’s mouth.
The second article “How the Peanuts Gang Got Its Name” takes a look at how Charles Schulz was forced to give up the original name he attached to his famous cast of characters and accept one he never warmed up to—“Peanuts!”
Each text is two pages long and comes with a set of 15 CCSS aligned questions.
Full answer keys, with specific CCSS alignments listed for each question, are included.As a bonus, I have added a two-page list of left-over peanut and peanut butter facts that students can use to write their own informational texts. Or, teachers can easily transform them into task cards.
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