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Interactive Notebook Pages Parts of Speech: Verbs
$10.50Add to cartThe nine interactive notebook pages in this product address the required CCSS verb skills for grades 4-8 as well as those covered by ELA teachers who are not following Common Core. They are:
Lesson Activity 1: Action and Linking Verbs
Lesson Activity 2: Helping Verbs/Verb Phrases
Lesson Activity 3: Modal Helping Verbs
Lesson Activity 4: Present, Past, Future Tense
Lesson Activity 5: Perfect Tense
Lesson Activity 6: Irregular Verbs
Lesson Activity 7: Progressive Tense
Lesson Activity 8. Perfect Progressive Tense
Lesson Activity 9: Consistency in Verb Tense
This package includes an optional Pop-up Divider Page as a bonus Activity.Each Lesson Activity includes a page of facts and examples (right side of notebook) that give a thorough presentation of the target skill(s), and student response forms that are ready to cut and assemble.
All lessons come with specific cutting and assembly instructions with photos of the various steps and directions for completing the student response forms. Answer keys and sample responses for each interactive page are also included.
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February Figuratively Speaking
$6.50Add to cartFebruary Figuratively Speaking is a 13 page activity organized in three parts with 25 items each.
February’s jam-packed list of special occasions forms the basis for the original sentences, famous people quotes, and literature passages that illustrate the use of similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Multiple choice questions challenge students to identify and interpret the featured figures of speech. Great test practice as well as seasonal fun.
Full answer keys are included.
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Celebrating March in Figurative Language
$6.50Add to cartMarch in Figurative Language is a study of 7 figures of speech–idiom, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and idiom–illustrated in original sentences or quotations from real people. This 13-page package is presented in three separate lessons of 25 items each.
Our third month’s calendar position as the transition point from winter to spring, or from summer to autumn if you live in the Southern hemisphere, provides the inspiration for some of the original sentences. Others are based on March’s role as host to St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History Month, National Cheerleading Week, and the likes of Save a Spider Day on the 14th and Weed Appreciation Day on the 28th. Teachers have the option of adding an extra thinking skill by asking students to connect each sentence to one of the 13 featured celebrations and events.
Full answer keys are included.
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Informational Texts Pack: Feet and Shoes
$6.50Add to cartFeet and shoes are the topics of this Informational Texts Pack. Titles of the four original articles are
Arguments for Feet Appreciation
Where Did You Get Those Shoes?
Extraordinary Feet
Speaking of Feet. . .The goal of this teaching resource is to inform and to entertain—lots of humor to keep students interested, especially “Speaking of Feet. . .” For the teacher, there are 10 CCSS aligned questions in a variety of formats for each of the four articles.
The Teacher’s Resources section offers one or more complete writing prompts for all four texts, links to internet sites and YouTube videos for more in-depth study, research topics, and the e-bibliography used in writing the articles.
Full answer keys with specific CCSS alignments are included. Twenty-five total pages.
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Celebrating April with Figurative Language
$6.50Add to cartCelebrating April with Figurative Language is a 12-page activity organized in three parts with 25 items each.
April’s festive, fun list of special occasions forms the basis for the original sentences, famous people quotes, and poetry excerpts that illustrate the use of similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, and alliteration. Multiple choice questions with four possible answers challenge students to identify and interpret the featured figures of speech. Great test practice as well as seasonal fun.
Full answer keys are included.
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I Have, Who Has. . . Fictional Couples Game for Valentine’s Day
$4.50Add to cartFrom Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the literary world offers a variety of couples whose stories mirror the romantic ups and downs of the real world.This I Have. . Who Has. . . game features 28 couples on 28 playing cards. Some, like Mickey and Minnie, live in the land of cartoons. Others are imaginative renditions of people with strange quirks, including the likes of Herman and Lily Munster. Romeo and Juliet are among the choice few who earn a special place in our hearts as timeless examples of true love.This selection of love-struck characters will have particular appeal to middle school students (5th-8th) Use this game to give their Valentine’s Day a little extra luster, even if it is based in fiction. They will be right at home!View SAMPLE PAGES. (Use the back arrow to exit sample pages.) -
Interactive Notebook Pages: Parts of Speech: Nouns
$10.50Add to cartThe seven interactive notebook pages in this product address the skills listed in CCSS as well as those covered by ELA teachers who are not following Common Core. They are:
- Lesson Activity 1: Noun Recognition/Common and Proper Nouns
- Lesson Activity 2: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
- Lesson Activity 3: Collective Nouns
- Lesson Activity 4: Plurals
- Lesson Activity 5: Unusual Plurals
- Lesson Activity 6: Possessive Nouns
- Lesson Activity 7: Possessive or Plural?
- Optional Intro/Divider Pop-up Page
These lessons and activities focus on the noun as a part of speech. They do not include a study of nouns as they are used in grammatical structure (subject, predicate nominative, direct object, subject/verb agreement, etc.).
Though the CCSS introduces nouns in the primary grades, this set of interactive notebook pages is for 6th-8th graders and some high school ELA classes. It is designed to be a combined review, reinforcement, and a new-learning tool. The skills covered are advanced and not for beginners.
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Thanksgiving Bingo with Twenty-Five Playing Cards
$6.00Add to cartThis 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.
Great fun in classrooms, club meetings, and family gatherings.
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Christmas Bingo Package
$6.00Add to cartTreat your students (and yourself) to a game or two of Christmas Bingo on that last, excitement-saturated day before the holiday break. The only preparation required is printing the material.
You get twenty-five filled, game-ready playing cards constructed around ninety Christmas-related vocabulary words. The target words are also formatted on the last three pages ready to be printed on card stock, cut apart, and pulled from a container to call the games
Also suitable for clubs, family gatherings, or any holiday get-together.
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End-of-School Bingo Game
$6.00Add to cartUse this End-of-School Bingo Game as part of your strategy for keeping things in a sane mode during those intense after-testing days. There is even some vocabulary to be learned in the process.
Everything is ready to go. You will need to do only two things: (1) Print the 25 filled playing cards in color or black and white. (2) Print the last three pages with the 90 end-of-school/vacation related vocabulary words and cut apart their individual squares so they can be pulled from a container to call the games. Students will need some sort of tokens–25 pennies, for example–to cover the squares on their cards.Print everything on card stock and use year after year.
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Words with Multiple Meanings (Grades 3-5)
$4.25Add to cartThis activity pack is aligned to CCSS L. 3.4, 4.4, and 5.4. It features 55 individual words with multiple meanings presented in five different, short activities with 10 to 20 items each.
Answer Keys included. 10 total pages including cover and answer keys
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Note: Go to Free Stuff for a free companion product.
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Words with Multiple Meanings (Grades 6-8)
$4.25Add to cartThis activity pack is aligned to CCSS L. 6.4, 7.4, and 8.4. It features 84 individual words with multiple meanings presented in six different, short activities with 10 to 20 items each.
Six Activities. . .
Sentence Clues
Spot the Meaning
Word ID
Nouns and Verbs
Connect the Definitions
Body Parts ChallengeAnswer Keys included. 12 total pages counting cover and answer keys.
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Note: This product has a companion free download in Free Stuff.
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Disguised Digits: Greek and Latin Base Words
$4.00Add to cartThis three-part, ten-page activity 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 answer keys are included.View SAMPLE PAGES. (Use back arrow to exit sample pages.) -
Five Question Story Writing
$6.00Add to cartFive 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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The Fun They Had: A Short Story Study with CCSS Alignment
$5.50Add to cartIsaac Asimov’s short story, THE FUN THEY HAD, is a compelling snapshot of school in the year 2157. An excellent read-aloud selection any time of the year, this science fiction tale is especially appropriate as a back-to-school study.
This teaching resource for Mr. Asimov’s science fiction classic has
an internet link to a copy of the story
vocabulary activities
10 short answer comprehension questions
16 interpretive thinking and writing prompts
a graphic organizer for writing
a grading rubric
full answer keys including suggested responses to
thinking/writing promptsAll items are 4-8th grade Common Core Aligned.
15 total pages including introductory page.
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