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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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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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Add a little zest to your students' Halloween fun with this two-part vocabulary brain teaser. Arm them with a dictionary and computer with internet connections and then challenge them to use the given definitions, clues, and partial spellings to identify a series of TERRIFYING TERMS AND CREEPY CHARACTERS--thirty-five items in Part One and another thirty-two items in Part Two. Finishing the set is MY LIFE WITH A FEW TERMS, a graphic organizer for writing.
Six pages of script. Full answer keys are included.
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This three-part, ten-page activity, entitled DISGUISED DIGITS, is a compact study of selected Greek and Latin base words that function in our vocabulary as NUMBERS.
The first section, focusing on UNI--, BI--, and TRI--, begins with background information (see sample pages for full script) and flows into the identification of thirty-eight different words formed from these three word parts.
The second lesson targets NINE MORE counting base words, including QUAD--, OCTO--, DEC--, and MONO--, and presents fifty of their descents now functioning as English terms.
In the third portion, students use the base-word concept to write twenty programmed sentences with both real and created terms.
Full keys are included.
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How 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 free download is organized into two activities with twenty-five items each. Full answer keys are provided.
Five pages of script plus cover page.
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This figure-of-speech study is constructed around the loosely woven story of a family's Thanksgiving get together. Organized in three sections (Appetizers, Main Course, After Dinner Activities) of twenty-five items each, the original sentences feature a menu of six figures of speech: similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeias.
Full answer keys are included.
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This 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.
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Five Question Story Writing is a pack of 20 story ideas with an action cartoon as the point of inspiration. Each activity comes with an accompanying set of 5 questions that, when combined with the featured cartoon, will assist students in constructing a story plot. An organizing page and lined pages for writing the final draft are included.
These activities challenged students to (1) create and solve a simple story problem, (2) structure the story with a beginning, middle, and end, (3) show cause and effect, (4) include sequencing words, and (5) use forceful verbs.
A grading rubric that addresses these elements is included.
This product is designed for 4th-6th graders who like to write stories but struggle for inspiration. Some 7th and 8th grade aspiring authors will also enjoy using this material.
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Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Though some youngsters may be initially flabbergasted, do give this lively lesson a try. What better way to provide insight into the fun and the power of words?
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