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Add BACK WORDS FOR BACK TO SCHOOL to your bag of tricks for getting the new school year off to a happy start.

First, is a two-part activity that challenges students to interpret clues and identify fifty terms or phrases that contain the word back. Full answer keys are on page 5.

Next, also located on the answer key page, is an idea for a WELCOME BACK word-chain bulletin board that students can construct on the spot.

Finally, a list of back words and phrases not used in the two activities and a separate list of school words and phrases are included as a teacher's resource for assigning student-created puzzles, poems, posters, etc.

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This back-to-school brain teaser doubles as a vocabulary builder.

Students are challenged to use definitions and clues to identify words that contain the sound ooh, such as school rule, cool, and classroom. Answers to the first set of forty items are relatively common words, The more difficult second set requires the identification of less familiar words, such as boudoir, fondue, and elusive.

A companion graphic organizer for writing presents an opportunity for each student to create (on paper) a "Marvelicious, Super Cool School" with his/her choice of transportation, hours, building, decor, rules, teachers, and curriculum--the makings of an attention-getting bulletin board.

Six pages, including full answer keys.

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Welcome your students with this Back-to-School Sense of Humor Test.

Students are challenged to spot the correct endings to the beginnings of humorous statements uttered by real people, including Yogi Berra, various politicians, George Burns, Dolly Parton, and Groucho Marx to name a few. The two "tests" of 35 items each offer opportunities for youngsters to polish their internet research skills.

The companion graphic organizer for writing, entitled "I Couldn't Stop Laughing!" requires students to pinpoint a particular event from summer break with maximum snicker-power--a variation on the "What I Did Last Summer" theme.

Also included is an idea for using this activity to create multiple bulletin board dispalys.

Six total pages including full answer keys.

Welcome your students back to school with WE'RE BACK, two sets (4 pages) of cross-curricula trivia questions about natural and man-made cycles.

When Labor Day rolls around, treat your kids to HELP WANTED, four fun pages about unusual and interesting jobs. Appropriate for many grade levels and abilities, including gifted programs.

Full answer keys included.

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Phrases, 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 brain teaser, they are the stars.

Treat your students to a view of our language from a different angle with this two-part download, 40 items each. Also included are full answer keys and a list of 50 additional number phrases that creative teachers and students may use as resources for another activity.

 

The month of September, with its Labor Day festivities and a host of other fun events, is the focus of this figurative language activity pack. The original study sentences are organized into three lessons with 25 items each. Students are challenged to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, hyperboles, idioms, and personification.

An introductory reference page with definitions and examples of the five featured figures of speech can be used as a wall poster or a student handout.

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Howl-o-ween Puns is mostly for fun, but learning is also an intended benefit in this free download. Students are instructed to check out the condition of their punnybones by reading Halloween-related riddles and spotting the pun in the collection of possible answers.

There are two different sets of riddles with 25 items each for students to sink their teeth into. For teachers, I have added an extra page of Halloween riddle-puns and a second page of anytime-puns that can be used to construct another lesson or two.

Full answer keys are included. Eight total pages counting cover page.

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This seasonal freebie begins with a two-page activity that focuses on words whose spellings include two sets, or even three sets, of double letters. HALLOWEEN, an obvious member of this group, starts the ball rolling as the first on the list. All fifty terms can be identified by their scrambled spellings, definitions, and/or association clues.

Next is a graphic organizer for writing entitled SEEING DOUBLE. A list of thirty-five additional double-double letter words is included after the answer keys for those who want to construct a second activity set.

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The month of October and the riotous fun of Halloween are the focus of this figurative language activity pack. Organized into three different lessons with 25 items each, students are asked to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, hyperboles, idioms, and personification. An introductory reference page with definitions and examples of the five featured figures of speech can be used as part of the student handout. Full answer keys are included.

Twelve pages including cover page.

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