Month: July 2013

  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. Download HERE, enjoy, and share!   (Use back arrow to exit free download.)

  What do the word “sis” and the sentence “Madam, I’m Adam” have in common? Both are palindromes–words, phrases, and sentences with individual letters that sit in the same sequence whether they are read forward or backward. With January being the month named after the ancient Roman god whose two faces allowed him to lookRead more ⟶

February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson. Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it.  Students must interpret the hidden meaning in each one. The preliminary Student Page briefly explains theRead more ⟶

This two-part activity is a study of English words with tricky spellings, such as February and bouquet. The first set of thirty-three items focuses on everyday words that baffle us with their unusual letter combinations. The second portion, also with thirty-three items, features words that offer challenges with both their spellings and their less familiarRead more ⟶

Who among us, student and teacher alike, has not stepped over an unpleasant task and assigned it to an undetermined future date? For a select group, piddling around is standard procedure. Procrastination, it seems, is pretty much one of the common denominators of human behavior. So why would we be surprised that the second weekRead more ⟶

April 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’sRead more ⟶

April’s designation as a month of rain is the anchor for this fifty-item brain teaser/vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to identify words that have the actual letters r-a-i-n or letter combinations that sound like “rain” within their spellings. Also included are interpretive questions based on idiomatic expressions with the word rain. Five total pages includingRead more ⟶

Children’s Book Week (the first full week of May) and Reading is Fun Week (the second full week of May) are the inspirations for the Ditzy Dictionary. Though they are necessary resources for reading comprehension, dictionaries have never made any young scholar’s most-fun book list. The Ditzy Dictionary just might do it! Students will enjoyRead more ⟶

Treat your class (and yourself) to this FREE, end-of-the-year vocabulary brain teaser with a related graphic organizer for writing. First, students are ask to identify words that conceal the summer terms GO, SEE, FUN, SUN, NAP, and EAT. You get two sets of HIDDEN SUMMER with 35 items each.Use the writing graphic organizer, MY KINDRead more ⟶