IT'S ABOUT TIME for HINK PINKS, et al.

 

Kiddos learn best when they're having fun and few things are more fun that HINK PINKS, HINKY PINKIES, & HINKITY PINKITIES! These word riddles will exercise a multitude of vocabulary skills (definitions, synonyms, parts of speech, rimes, syllables, ...) while challenging students to problem solve. These task cards prompt your learners to interpret data, make inferences, draw conclusions, and analyze new infomation.

Here's how they work:

• HINK PINKS are riddles that call for a 2 word answer. The 2 words must each have 1 syllable and they must rhyme. In the above example, the clue, seize pinching shellfish, has the answer grab crab.
• HINKY PINKIES differ from HINK PINKS in that the answer to the riddle must be 2 words with 2 syllables each. The HINKY PINKY above offers the clue, Pacific wave actions; the answer being ocean motion.
• As you may have guessed, HINKITY PINKITIES require answer words with 3 syllables. The clue above, enormous ocean can be answered with gigantic Atlantic. 

Intriguing aren't they?

It can take students a while to catch on to this word play. Begin with HINK PINKS and solve several together. Demonstrate your thinking. Offer your learners the use of dictionaries and thesauri (print or digital). Complete as many as a group as necessary until you see the lightbulb go on. Once your pupils have a good command of HINK PINKS, move on to HINKY PINKIES. HINKITY PINKITIES are the most challenging, not only because of the vocabulary necessary for the answers, but because the language of the clues is more complex.

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WHAT ARE HINK PINKS?

• Hink Pinks are word riddles.  
• Hink Pinks are fun, word riddles.
• Hink Pinks are fun, word riddles with rhyming answers.
• Hink Pinks are word play.
• Hink Pinks expand vocabulary.
• Hink Pinks extend students' vocabulary.
• Hink Pinks are fun, critical thinking exercises.
• Hink Pinks are fun, critical thinking exercises that help students learn to interpret data.
• Hink Pinks are fun, critical thinking exercises that help students make inferences.
• Hink Pinks are fun, critical thinking exercises that help students draw conclusions.
• Hink Pinks are fun, critical thinking exercises that teach students to analyze new information.
• Hink Pinks are serious learning disguised as fun.

HOW DO HINK PINKS WORK?

• Read the clues.
• Think of a 2 word answer. The answer words must rhyme.
• Each answer word must have just 1 syllable.

For example:

Did you figure it out? The answer is barn yarn.

HOW DO YOU USE HINK PINKS?

• as a literacy center  
• as a warm-up activity
• as a sponge activity
• as an anchor activity
• as a fast finishers' challenge
• for differentiation of instruction
• for enrichment

WHAT ARE HINKY PINKIES, HINKITY PINKITIES, AND HINK PINKS FOR KINDERS?

• HINKY PINKIES are just like HINK PINKS, except the 2 words in the answer must have 2 syllables each.
• HINKITY PINKITIES are like HINK PINKS, too, except the 2 words in the answer must have 3 syllables.
• HINK PINKS & HINKY PINKIES FOR KINDERS are word riddles that do not require reading. Students deduce the 2 rhyming words that answer the riddle by studying the picture. This makes them perfect for kindergarten and 1st graders who do not yet read, as well as ESL and ELL students.