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Showing posts with label triads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label triads. Show all posts

Saturday, December 16, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME for TRIADS!

 

If you are not familiar with TRIADS, let me introduce you to your newest addiction. LOL TRIADS combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills –analysis, synthesis, and evaluation – while having fun!

Here's how TRIADS work: Find a word that can be added to each of the words on the TRIAD. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to make a familiar phrase or a compound word. 

For example: the common word for the TRIAD of litter, nap, and black is CAT -- CAT litter, CATnap, and black CAT. You will absolutely love watching your students' "light bulb" moments.


Here's a FREEBIE to let you try them:

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If you like love them, as I'm sure you will, I have a plethora of TRIAD task cards ready for you and your learners to enjoy.










My GATE/enrichment students can't get enough of these word relationships. They love them so much, they started creating their own to challenge me!














Wednesday, August 2, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME for NEW DIGITAL RESOURCES!

 
Are you looking for an anchor activity that will truly challenge your upper elementary learners?  Would it be even better if it was digital?  Do you love integrating different disciplines with higher level thinking skills?

If you answered YES, then THINKING CORNER is what you need.

Start each day out with these digital, brain exercises.  Included are perennial favorites like Hink Pinks, et al., and Word Ladders.  


If Triads and Word Winkers are new to your students, I assure they will fall in love with them. 


Train your learners in math reasoning with Mystery Numbers and Monster Math.


You can try THINKING CORNER for FREE!


Then you can get a full year's worth of daily critical thinking with THINKING CORNER Vol. 1 & 2.

Thinking Corner is exclusive to TPT Easel.  Easel can be used on any digital device.  




Thursday, July 13, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME for MORNING BELL-RINGERS!

 

  • Are you looking for a daily bell-ringer activity?
  • Would you like it to be digital (no printing)?
  • Do you need something your upper elementary learners cannot speed through but must actually use Higher Order Thinking Skills to complete?
Then, it's about time, teachers, that you discover  this FREEBIE!  Available absolutely free on TPT Easel, you can find it here.

If you love it, and I think you will, you can get an entire year of daily, morning, thinking challenges.









Saturday, June 17, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME for a BIRTHDAY SALE-EBRATION!

 


It's my birthday week! To celebrate, I've discounted all of my BUNDLES 50% off. That's 50 bundles at half price from 6/17/23 - 6/24/23. Find all of my bundles here.

Bundled products include:

  • classroom decor
  • thematic units
  • hink pinks, et al.
  • triads
  • kangaroo words
  • square puzzlers
  • one dollar words
  • Scrattle
  • idioms
  • phonics centers
  • vocabulary fractions
  • sight words
  • poetry
  • holidays
  • tangrams
  • math centers
  • literacy centers

Help me celebrate!





Wednesday, December 14, 2022

NEW DIGITAL RESOURCES

 

  

I'm proud to announce the launch of 3 new digital products for teachers of grades 3-6.  THINKING CORNER will provided daily brain challenges to your students. They require higher order thinking skills and perserverance to solve.

THINKING CORNER slides are wonderful for:

  • daily bell ringer activity
  • distance learning
  • computer laboratory lessons
  • technology center activities
  • fast finishers
  • enrichment/differentiation challenges

Each slide requires learners to solve 5 puzzles:

  • Hink Pinks or Hinky Pinkies
  • Mystery Math or Monster Math
  • Triads
  • Word Ladders
  • Word Winkers


Try it before you buy it.  There is a free version that provides 1 week of challenges as a preview.


THINKING CORNER Vol. 1 provides a full semester of daily challenges.  


Vol. 2 of THINKING CORNER supplies another semester of them.


These resources are available digitally on TPT's Easel platform.  No print product is available.  THINKING CORNER is CCSS aligned.

These resources are no prep.  That's a win for teachers!!  Students find them to be fun and engaging.  A win for students!!