It's About Time, Teachers!: vocabulary

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Saturday, October 21, 2023

It's about time, teachers, for Halloween resources. Check these out!

Saturday, October 7, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUNS!

A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms.

Create a research activity with these task cards. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. All of the following resources are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.

TRY THEM BEFORE YOU BUY THEM!

The challenge in this FREE activity is to create a word that sounds similar to BUMBLEBEE and fulfills the clue on the task card.

With these 40 task cards, students are asked to find a word that ends with –ANT and fulfills the clue.

This set of 40 task cards requires your learners to find a word that contains the /bē/ sound, or similar, and fulfills the clue.

Inject some fun into your lessons with these PUN TASK CARDS!

Sunday, June 18, 2023

IT'S TIME TO CHECK OUT MY BIRTHDAY SALE!

For my birthday, I'm sale-ebrating with a sale for you! Every bundle in my TPT store is discounted 50% through 6/24/23.

Here's a sample of the awesome deals you can score:

If you haven't discovered HINK PINKS, et al., you are in for a treat.

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.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME for HINK PINKS!

If you are not familiar with HINK PINKS, you are in for a treat. They are word riddles that pack a ton of serious learning into a super, fun activity. The clues to the riddles lead to a 2 word answer. The solution words must rhyme and each have just one syllable. Here's an example:

The answer is SWEET TREAT.

The vocabulary skills exercised include definitions, synonyms, parts of speech, rimes, & tenses. Research skills are involved, too, if you provide dictionaries, thesauri, and their technology versions. At the same time, learners will interpret data, make inferences, draw conclusions, and analyze new information; i.e. work with H.O.T.S. In addition to all these good things, HINK PINKS are so popular among students that you will be amazed. Mine literally beg to do HINK PINKS every day.

If you are curious about them, check out this free set:

HINK PINKS have been a staple in my teaching for decades. Hence, my TPT Store offers more than 3 dozen HINK PINK products and their cousins HINKY PINKIES and HINKITY PINKITIES. I even have HINK PINKS and HINKY PINKIES for Kinders that challenge students to determine the rhyming words based on pictures; no reading required. Here's the FREE version of those:

You can find HINK PINK units at a 30% savings if you opt for the bundle.

There are also bundles for HINKY PINKIES and HINKITY PINKITIES.

There are combination units for holidays, also bundled for additional savings.

I offer combination units with specific themes, too.

Now is a great time to stock up on HINK PINKS, et al. There are a few hours left in TPT Site Sale. But, if you missed it, my store will remain on sale 3/30 & 3/31/23 at 20% savings. That's 20% off the already reduced bundle prices.