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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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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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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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G. Trueheart, Man’s Best Friend Short Story Study Guide
$8.75Add to cartThis Short Story Study Guide features “G. Trueheart, Man’s Best Friend,” a tale of a boy and a Golden Retriever by James McNamee. Rather than the typical mutual-admiration relationship, students will discover a total mismatch that will keep them (and their teacher) chuckling and laughing out loud with practically every paragraph, even during the most terrifying moment of their adventures.
A must-read for middle school students, especially on one of those days when they need something different to help them unwind and refocus.
The study guide includes factual and challenge story quizzes, a study of the story’s figures of speech, conflict analysis, thinking and writing prompts, graphic organizers for writing, and four informational texts about Golden Retrievers.
Full answer keys for all student activities, except writing, are included. CCSS alignments for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Reading: Literature, Writing, Informational Texts are listed on the last page.
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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. -
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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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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The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry a Short Story Study Guide
$12.00Add to cartThe Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry is not an easy read and generally reserved for high school classrooms. This Short Story Study Guide is designed for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. It offers specific activities and resources to help middle schoolers understand and enjoy one of O. Henry’s most famous, head-shaking tales.
The 6 different instructional components are:
1. The Cop and the Anthem—a full copy of O. Henry’s story, which is now in public domain.2. An Author’s Biographical Sketch and 2 other Informational Texts to help students better understand important story elements. All three articles include CCSS Aligned study questions.
3. Vocabulary Resources:
Alphabetized list of the 73 words chosen for study with story page numbers
Word lists with definition organized by their story page numbers
Dictionary Digs—for use before reading to help give students an advanced look at some of the story’s rigorous vocabulary
A Phrase Buster “cheat sheet ” for students to use as they read.
A study of O. Henry’s use of descriptive language, figurative language, irony, and humor4. Two Quizzes, one a multiple choice test of the story’s factual comprehension and the other a group of 15 CCSS Aligned challenge questions.
5. Writing Prompts
6. Full Answer Keys
Though O. Henry never mentions the word “Christmas” in The Cop and the Anthem, the reader can surmise that the action takes place between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a fact that makes this short story a good classroom addition for those happy, exciting days before holiday break.
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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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Touching Spirit Bear Teaching Guide
$24.75Add to cartTouching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Touching Spirit Bear Teaching Guide is a 148 page resource with eight different components for teaching Ben Mikaelsen’s popular novel. Though CCSS alignments are not listed in this file, the various activities meet a large portion of ELA skills requirements for grades 6-8.
Touching Spirit Bear Teaching Guide components:
•Detailed CHAPTER SUMMARIES written in bulleted format.
•PREREADING activities and ideas with a bulletin board suggestion.
•VOCABULARY with word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, and worksheets.
•Chapter-by-chapter SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS that require detailed, factual responses,
•A series of OBJECTIVE TESTS that cover the novel as chapter-by-chapter quizzes and as a whole book test and check for basic story comprehension.
•THINK, WRITE, CREATE open-ended prompts, both chapter-by-chapter and whole book, that require students to engage HIGHER LEVEL THINKING SKILLS.
•GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing based on specific novel events or characters.
•Full ANSWER KEYS for those items requiring a specific answer are included.View SAMPLE PAGES. (Use the back arrow to exit the sample pages.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Each of the items below are separate components taken from Touching Spirit Bear Teaching GuideThey are offered as individual purchases for teachers who wish to use only one specific component. Please do not unintentionally duplicate your order.
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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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Where the Red Fern Grows: A Novel Teaching Guide (Digital Download)
$25.00Add to cartWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows Novel Study Unit is a 189-page instructional resource for Wilson Rawls’s classic tale of determination, love, and loss. This complete unit comes with 9 different components with a broad range of skills from gathering factual knowledge to engaging higher level thinking skills.
Teaching Guide Components:
Where the Red Fern Grows Prereading Activities
•PREREADING activities and ideas get students motivated about the story’s setting, plot, and characters.Where the Red Fern Grows Informational Texts
•The six INFORMATIONAL TEXTS are designed to spark student interest and provide background information that will make the reading more relevant and enjoyable. Each text includes CCSS/Standards-Based questions.Where the Red Fern Grows Vocabulary Study
•This component includes VOCABULARY with word lists, definitions, dictionary activities, usage worksheets, and figurative language taken from the text.Where the Red Fern Grows Short Answer Questions
•This sections contains chapter-by-chapter SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS that require detailed,factual responses.Where the Red Fern Grows Objective Tests
•This series of OBJECTIVE TESTS (Multiple Choice, True/False, Yes/No, Fill in the Blank) covers the story in chapter-by-chapter quizzes and as a whole book test. The quizzes check for factual story comprehension.Where the Red Fern Grows CCSS/Standards-Based Quizzes
•This component covers the book chapter-by-chapter and ends with a whole-book quiz. Each page also includes a CCSS-aligned writing challenge.Where Where the Red Fern Grows Thinking and Writing Skills
•The THINK, WRITE, CREATE open-ended prompts address story chapter-by-chapter and whole book. The activities range in difficulty from basic to challenging. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, they address a large variety of CCSS ELA and Writing standards.Where the Red Fern Grows Graphic Organizers for Writing
• The GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS for writing (and thinking) are based on specific story events or characters.Where the Red Fern Grows Answer Keys
•Full ANSWER KEYS for those items requiring a specific answer are included. CCSS alignments (except for Think, Write, Create) are listed here rather than on student worksheet.
View SAMPLE PAGES (Use back arrow to exit sample pages.)IMPORTANT NOTE: All the individual components offered below are included in this file. Please do not accidentally duplicate your order.
