Each of these 20 task cards presents a set of 5 words or phrases associated with the winter holidays. Four of them are further connected by a particular category, and one of them is a misfit. Students are challenged to identify the category of the four related terms and pinpoint the word or phrase that doesn’t fit.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the star of this FREE Informational Text.
Rudolph’s story is chronicled from his origins as a promotional strategy for the Montgomery Ward Company to his rise to world super stardom. Students will be interested in the little-known history of this holiday favorite and adults will find that Rudolph’s true story has some surprises.
Students can practice their CCSS skills with the accompanying 12 questions.
Answer keys for the 12 questions also list the CCSS alignments.
The Teacher’s Resources section presents additional writing prompts and ideas for CCSS activities including making media comparisons (a book and a film, for example) and research ideas to give students a more in-depth look at some of the people and events mentioned in the article. The e-bibliography used to compose this Informational Text is also included.
9 total pages of text.
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This free download (aligned to CCSS L. 6.4, 7.4, and 8.4) features ten words with numbers connections. Students are instructed to study a set of three sentences and identify the one word that correctly completes all three. A final assignment challenges students to write their own sentence groups with five additional number-related words.
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This free download is taken from Brain Teasers for Young Scholars, one of our Word Works packages.
The three activities are:
OIC: Students must answer questions with letters of the alphabet rather than words.
Connections: Tread your brightest students to a mental workout that requires studying 3 given words and determining the common word that connects them. It’s more difficult that it looks!
Categories: Students are instructed to study the sets of five words and determine their category.
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