Language Arts
Lessons about vocabulary, grammar, spelling, figurative language, context clues, and word relationships.
Paragraphs: Systems of Sentences
Want students to understand how a paragraph fits together? Explode one and make them reassemble it using the clues in each sentence! I even wrote a little app to bust a paragraph up for you.
Building Creative Analogies
We'll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.
Showing A Character’s Trait
We tell students to "show, not tell" in their writing, but this advice isn't effective until they experience the difference. In this video, we'll put a famous character (of students' choosing) into a mundane situation and develop a fun scene to show off their main traits.
Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 1
"Add more variety!" I'd say to my class. But I never really knew what this actually meant. Suprise! This bad advice never improved students' writing. In these videos, students learn nine specific ways to add variety just by changing the beginning of their sentences. This was easily one of my students' favorite writing tools - because it actually helped them.
Ongoing Greek and Latin Word Part Activities
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Characters Dressed as Other Characters for Halloween
What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they're both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?
Holiday vs Holiday (from a Mascot’s Perspective)
Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.
Word Ladders Introduction
You won't believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids' brains sweating over the smallest of words.
Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity
Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character's main trait changes across a story.
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words ("Jabberwocky") and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it's only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
Upgrade Research Questions With Depth and Complexity
Ever ask students to create research questions? Were their ideas a bitโฆ blah? My own students had a very hard time writing questions they didn't already know the answer to! This video is how I solved that problem: upgrade research questions with depth and complexity.
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes
Are students' characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names
Let's create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!
Writing A Thanksgiving Letter
What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?
Writing Seuss Style Poetry
Sure, Dr. Seuss wrote for young students, but can older students analyze his writing and learn to mimic his style? THEN, they can produce Seuss-style poetry about any topic: Ancient China, the electromagnetic spectrum, Pride and Prejudice, and (yes) fraction division!
Persuasion and Packaging: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
How does a drink's packaging affect us emotionally and logically?
Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art
Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!
Punctuation Power
In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings - without changing a single word!
What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these types of figurative language - without any instruction!?
Writing Summaries in Haiku
Let's write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.
Identifying Author’s Voice
What if... Edgar Allen Poe wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Virtue or Vice?
Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it's a vice.
Writing in Pilish
Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?
Better Stories Part 1: The Big Idea
We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: "structure increases creativity." I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.
Remixing A Holiday Poem
Let's take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!
Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences
How do characters from novels line up with Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?
Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes
A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes inโฆ
Motivation and Moral Development
Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?
Better Stories Part 5: Plot Structure
Ever read a student's story that was just event after event after event and then a very sudden ending? They lack an understanding of a plot's structure. With the help of Finding Nemo, I break down how to set up a well-structured plot.
Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats
Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!
Analyze Characters Using Philosophy
What is the Brick Pig's philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?
Synonym Graphs
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
Random Emoji Prompt Generator
Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.
Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche
We'll start with the clichรฉ "as cold as ice" and go somewhere much more interesting.
Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”
Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles' song Help!?
Propaganda and Logical Fallacies
Let's see how propaganda techniques can make even something great seem bad.
Greek and Latin Word Part Paths
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
Sets of Idioms
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
Words Within Words: Intro (Soldier)
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Academic Love Letters
What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?
Upgrading Compare and Contrast Writing
Upgrade compare and contrast writing with just a couple of key words.
Teach Non-Fiction Writing Structure With Fractals
Did you ever notice that the structure of an essay is very similar to the structure of a paragraph? Hmmโฆ
“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s
Let's spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between "its" and "it's" by asking students to write a children's story about the adventures of a critter named It.
Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)
Students will go from "Fast" to "Race" by changing just one letter per step.
Not Like The Others: Charlotte’s Web
Students will determine which of the characters is not like the others.
A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong
Let's go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?
Changing Coordinating Conjunctions
What happens when we switch out a "but" with a "so"? An "and" with a "for"? How can such tiny words make such big differences?
Looking Closely at Holiday Photos
Let's write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!
Run On or Not? – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these sentences - without any instruction!?
Better Stories Part 2: Types of Conflict
If your students' stories are packed with endless ninja fights or arguments between frenemies, it's time to expose them to a wider range of conflicts.
Ways to Start a Sentence – Level 2
We'll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.
Pronouns With Too Many Antecedents
What happens when a pronoun could refer to more than one noun? Big problems!
Writing Clear Directions
Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?
Common English Words From Other Languages
Bored with typical spelling studies? Let's dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Thanksgiving Photo Writing
Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item's point of view.
Plurals: An Inductive Spelling Lesson
Plural nouns in English are deliciously fascinating. Yet most plural lessons are so dull! In this experience, students are given a pile of plurals and then inductively create groups and pull out rules and patterns.
Do Narrators Have Too Much Power?
Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story's narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?
Advanced Alliteration and Consonance
When students learn about alliteration, it's hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.
Studying and Remixing “The Raven”
Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?
Parts of Speech Party: Introduction (Check)
How many ways can we use "check" in a paragraph? And can your students spot when it's a verb, or a noun, or an adjective?
Literary Technique: Juxtaposition
Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!
Ways to Start a Sentence – Part 3
We'll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with gerunds, participle phrases, and absolute phrases.
Word Pyramids
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Greekymon Studies – Round 1
What might a creature named "Ursolunascope" be like?
Ambiguous Sentences
Rather than just demand that students "write clearly," we'll explore the hazards of poorly written sentencesโฆ and maybe create one of our own!
Analyze Paragraphs: Baseball
Students will read three paragraphs about the same topic, decide what makes each one different, and then create a super-paragraph!
Bobbing for Apples
What is bobbing for apples likeโฆ for an apple?
Simple or Compound Sentences – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these two types of sentences - without any instruction!?
Stories with the Same Problems and Solutions
Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?
Complex or Compound – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the difference between these two types of sentences without any instruction!?
Robot Writing: The Bridge
One painting of a bridge. Three robots. Who wrote it best?
Elements of The Fantasy Genre
Dig into the common elements of the fantasy genre.
Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite
Let's start with "As cold as fire."
Improving Presentations 2: Planning The Outline
After watching some great presenters, let's outline your presentation!
Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)
Students will go from "COLD" to "COOL" by changing just one letter per step.
Comparing Characters’ Bedrooms
What item's in a character's bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character's room?
What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent
What makes these clauses different?
Passive to Active Voice
n this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.
Parts of Speech Tournament
Which part of speech is most useful? Interesting? Strange?
Fixing Shakespearean Run-Ons
Can your students help The Bard? We'll fix five Shakespearean run-ons in three different ways.
Think Like A Philosopher
What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?
What Would Poetry Think About Prose?
Imagine that Poetry and Prose meet for the first time at a party? What would they say to each other? How would they feel? In this video, I guide kids through the process of writing a script in which these two forms of writing interact.
Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful
What exactly does adding -less do to a word?
Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
Writing About Art: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Students will look closely at a piece of art and then write a structured poem about it.
Words Within Words: Ornament
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Writing Technique: Contrast With Synonyms
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We'll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.
Analyze Paragraphs: Cucumbers
Students will read three paragraphs about the same topic, decide what makes each one different, and then create a super-paragraph!
Writing About Art: Impression, Sunrise
Students will create a surprisingly good poem based on Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
Analyze Paragraphs: Wolverines
Students will read three paragraphs about the same topic, decide what makes each one different, and then create a super-paragraph!
Writing About Art: Chลshi in Shimosha
Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan's most famous artist.
Parts of Speech Party โ Gift
How many different ways can we use the word "gift" in a single paragraph? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness
Students will write about a beautiful painting from Frederic Edwin Church.
Order, Chaos, and the Holiday Season
Let's write a holiday song about order and chaos!
Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)
Students will go from "TWO" to "SIX" by changing just one letter per step.
Robot Writing: Volcano
Read three pieces of writing from three different robots about the same beautiful painting of a volcano. Who wrote it best?
Holiday Writing: Packing Crates
Students will look closely at this old image and write a short, structured poem.
Idiom Tasks
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages
Let's go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?
Writing Technique: 3 Dependent Clauses
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We'll be writing sentences with three dependent clauses.
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?
Writing Technique: Opposite Adjectives
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We'll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!
Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition
Is your students' use of repetition limited to, "The girl was very, very, very fast."? Let's borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!
Change A Story’s Genre
What if we rewrote a story's climax into a totally different genre?
Parts of Speech Party – Well
How many different ways can we use the word "well"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Words Within Words: CRANBERRY
How many words can you find within "cranberry"?
Analyze Paragraphs: Empire State Building
Students will read three paragraphs about the same topic, decide what makes each one different, and then create a super-paragraph!
Doubling Up Writing: Anadiplosis
Repeating words can be what you want, if what you want is an interesting effect. (Psst, that's an example of anadiplosis!)
Analyze Paragraphs: Tomatoes
Students will read three paragraphs about the same topic, decide what makes each one different, and then create a super-paragraph!
Holiday Emoji Story ๐
Students will create a story about ๐๐๐ค๐ถ๐ซฃ
Multiple Meaning Matcher โ Alpha
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Parts of Speech Party – Limit
How many different ways can we use the word "limit"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Earthquakes – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about earthquakes back into the correct order?
Writing Technique: Triple Anadiplosis!
Have students mastered the art of anadiplosis: ending one sentence with the beginning of the next? Now it's time to take it to the next level!
Sets of Idioms Related to Food
Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.
What’s In My Brain: May vs May
Students will determine when "may" is used for possibility and when it's used for permission.
Halloween Emoji Story ๐ท๏ธ
Students will create a story about ๐ท๏ธ๐ธ๏ธ๐ฉ๐๐ช.
Mother’s Day Cards
Let's write the cleverest Mother's Day cards you've ever seen!
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms
Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).
Aquamorphotron (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Aquamorphotron, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Parts of Speech Party – Thanks
How many different ways can we use the word "thanks"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Words Within Words: STUFFING
Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."
Words Within Words: Rainbow
How many words can you find within rainbow?
What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum
Can students figure out the differences between sentences with past progressive and simple past tenses using the concept attainment model?
Writing Sample: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Falling)
A passage from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Halloween Emoji Story ๐
Students will create a story about ๐๐ฏ๏ธ๐๐ฅ๐ป.
Holiday Emoji Story โท๏ธ
Students will create a story about โท๏ธ๐จ๏ธ๐ฒ๐ป๐ค
What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting
Can the concept attainment model make transitive and intransitive verbs interesting? In my experience, it sure can!
Words Within Words: Nutcracker
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli
Students will make this slimy broccoli simile seriously specific.
Think Like An Author: Hemingway vs Dickens
What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?
Greekymon Studies – Round 2
What might a creature named "Hypermnemonicus" be like?
Writing About Art: Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
Students will create a pretty darn interesting poem about Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
Progressive or Simple Tenses – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences between these two tenses - without any instruction!?
Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing
Let's take a starting phrase about St. Patrick's Day and get specific. No, even more specific!
Emoji Stories ๐ฐ
Students will create a story about ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ช.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Writing Sample: The Wind in the Willows
A passage from The Wind in the Willows to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Words Within Words: Wreath
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Robot Writing: Acropolis
One painting of ruins. Three robots. Three pieces of writing. Who wrote it best?
Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed
Students will make this simile about stinky seaweed super specific.
Chronosonarium (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Chronosonarium, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Pyrostasis (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Pyrostasis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)
A passage from The Velveteen Rabbit to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Writing Sample: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Shrinking)
A passage from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Coral Reef – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about the coral reef back into the correct order?
Super Specific Similes: Quick Baby
Let's make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Idioms About Money
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Geosynth (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Geosynth, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Writing Sample: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A passage from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Writing Sample: A Christmas Carol (Cold)
Robot Writing: Orchestra
Read three pieces of writing from three different robots based on a beautiful painting and decide who wins!
Halloween Emoji Story ๐
Students will create a story about ๐๐ฒ๐ฃ๐ฑ๐จ.
St. Patrick and Other Legends
How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Greekymon Studies – Round 3
What might a creature named "Aquacornus Rex" be like?
Thermocryptograph (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Thermocryptograph, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Hydromagnaphone (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Hydromagnaphone, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Plexidemokinesis (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Plexidemokinesis, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Analyze Suffixes: -en
Students will note the effects of adding a suffix to a word and then look for counter-examples to those patterns.
Writing Sample: Anne of Green Gables
An intriguing passage from Anne of Green Gables to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Writing Sample: Peter Pan
A passage from "Peter Pan" to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Words Within Words: General
How many words can you find within "general"?
Words Within Words: Leopard
How many words can you find within "leopard"?
Words Within Words: TEACHER
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Words Within Words: Patrick
How many words can you find within Patrick?
The Great Sphinx – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about The Great Sphinx back into the correct order?
Holiday Emoji Story ๐
Students will create a story about ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐
Holiday Emoji Story โ๏ธ
Students will create a story about โ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ๐ญโจ
Holiday Emoji Story ๐ช
Students will create a story about ๐ช๐ฅ๐๐พ๐ฆ
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Idioms about Weather
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Psycholunaphase (Greek and Latin)
Using the word Psycholunaphase, students will create an invention, a creature, or a spell.
Parts of Speech Party โ Change
How many different ways can we use the word "change"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Parts of Speech Party โ Fruit
How many different ways can we use the word "fruit"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Writing Sample: White Fang (The Wild)
A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
12 Phrases: Amusement Park
Given twelve random phrases, students will pick four and then write about the strange situation.
12 Phrases: Out To Eat
Given twelve random phrases, students will pick four and then write about the strange situation.
Automobiles – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about automobiles back into the correct order?
Trains – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about trains back into the correct order?
Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle
Let's make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.
Super Specific Similes: Loud Class
Let's make this simile about a loud class super specific!
Emoji Stories ๐
Students will write a story about ๐๐บ๏ธ๐๐๐
Emoji Stories ๐ค
Students will create a story about ๐ค๐๐ต๐บ๐.
Emoji Stories ๐ป
Students will create a story about ๐ป๐ฉ๐๏ธ๐ฐ๐คฃ.
Parts of Speech Party โ Care
How many different ways can we use the word "care"? Let's find out in this Parts of Speech Party!
Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher
A passage from "The Fall of the House of Usher" to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Writing Sample: The Jungle Book (Bagheera)
A passage from The Jungle Book to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
Words Within Words: Airplane
How many words can you find within airplane?
Words Within Words: Saturn
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Words Within Words: PARKING
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Words Within Words: Ireland
How many words can you find within Ireland?
Rainclouds – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about rain clouds back into the correct order?
Washington, DC – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about Washington, DC back into the correct order?
Idioms About Fire
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Idioms About Red
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Word Ladder: Work to Hard (4 Steps)
Students will go from "Work" to "Hard" by changing just one letter per step.
Writing Sample: Moby Dick
A passage from Moby Dick to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
12 Phrases: A Magical School
Given twelve random phrases, students will pick four and then write about the strange situation.
12 Phrases: A Day At School
Given twelve random phrases, students will pick four and then write about the strange situation.
Word Pyramid: U to Brush
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Words Within Words: Menorah
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Words Within Words: LATKES
How many words can you find within LATKES?
The Moon – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about The Moon back into the correct order?
Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)
Students will go from "East" to "West" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)
Students will go from "Foot" to "Shoe" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)
Students will go from "TEA" to "HOT" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)
Students will go from "KID" to "OLD" by changing just one letter per step.
12 Phrases: Somewhere In Space
Given twelve random phrases, students will pick four and then write about the strange situation.
Word Pyramid: H to CRASH
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: I to LIONS
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: O to Stones
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: T to PLANET
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Words Within Words: WESTERN
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Great Sloths – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about great sloths back into the correct order?
Pluto – Mixed Up Paragraph
Can you use the context clues to get these sentences about Pluto back into the correct order?
Emoji Stories ๐ฐ๏ธ
Students will create a story about ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ฉ๐๐๐บ
Emoji Stories ๐๏ธ
Students will create a story about ๐๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฉ๏ธ๐ท๐ฒ
Emoji Stories ๐ฅ๏ธ
Students will write a story about ๐ฅ๏ธ๐๐๐๐ค .
Emoji Stories ๐๏ธ
Students will create a story about ๐๏ธ๐น๐๐ฆ๐ฅ
Emoji Stories ๐
Students will create a story about ๐๐ค๐ป๐ธ๐
Emoji Stories ๐
Students will create a story about ๐๐ฌโ๏ธ๐๏ธ ๐
Emoji Stories ๐ฆ
Students will create a story about ๐ฆ๐๐๐ถ๐
Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)
Students will go from "FLY" to "BEE" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)
Students will go from "WILD" to "TAME" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Pyramid: T to Patch
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)
Students will go from "ARM" to "LEG" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)
Students will go from "SKY" to "RED" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)
Students will go from "Sun" to "Hot" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)
Students will go from "Band" to "Sing" by changing just one letter per step.
Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)
Students will go from "Fire" to "Warm" by changing just one letter per step.
12 Phrases: The Zoo
Given twelve random phrases, students will pick four and then write about the strange situation.