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Opinion Puzzles

Opinion Puzzles

1. Shuffle the puzzle pieces. 2. Try to complete the puzzle with the matching opinion pieces. 3. Come up with your own opinion to debate and write the reasons on the black puzzle pieces. Have someone else solve your puzzle.Learning Benchmarks: Post-Primary: The child...

Onomatopoeia Comics

Onomatopoeia Comics

Create an original comic with onomatopoeia words! 1. Cut out the speech bubbles on the next page. This is where you’ll write your onomatopoeia words. 2. Use the following pages to write and draw your comic in the grids. 3. Glue the speech bubbles where you want them...

Metaphor Memory

Metaphor Memory

1. Shuffle and set all the Memory Cards face down in even rows and columns. 2. Player One flips a card over and reads it. 3. Then he or she tries to find the card’s match (the metaphor or meaning that goes with it). 4. If they find a match, they get to keep the pair...

Metaphor and Simile Walkabout

Metaphor and Simile Walkabout

1. Walk about your house and look for something to describe using a simile or a metaphor. 2. Draw a picture of the object (or person). 3. Write a simile or metaphor underneath on the lines. Circle the thing you are describing. 4. Check off whether your sentence is a...

Looking for Labels in Daily Life

Looking for Labels in Daily Life

Labels are an essential part of daily life. They give information, warnings ingredients, instructions, etc. For this activity, you will use text markings to mark household labels. 1. Print the 8 text marking boxes. 2. The boxes have the sentence stem for you. Add a...

Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer

Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer

1. Choose two books to read (or reread) for this activity. Choose books that are different, but you can tell have some similarities. 2. Write the titles in the red circles. 3. Write the differences between the two books in the blue circles. Write the similarities in...

Nursery Rhyme Posters

Nursery Rhyme Posters

Use these Nursery Rhyme Posters to recite to your child...practicing rhythm, thyme, and fluency as you read! You can even have your child echo read (copy you) after each line.Learning Benchmarks: Primary: The child uses play to become familiar with the language and...

I Have, Who Has Idioms

I Have, Who Has Idioms

Players: 2 or more 1. Shuffle the cards and split them evenly with each player. 2. The first player begins by reading the Who Has portion of their card. This is the idiom. For example, they would read: Who Has “on top of the world”? 3. The player who has the meaning...

Heading Generator

Heading Generator

1. Read these paragraph excerpts from the book Cracking the Code: Women Who Have Changed the Way We Look at Computers by Alisha Sadikot. 2. Summarize the paragraph by coming up with a heading to describe what the paragraph is going to be about. Remember, a heading is...