12 Days of Christmas -- Day 5

Today's 12 Days of Christmas gift is Christmas Hink Pinks, et al. These vocabulary riddles are wildly popular with teachers and students alike.  My kiddos literally beg to do more Hink Pinks!

Christmas Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, Hinkity Pinkities, and Hitinkity Pitinkities are not only great for exercising critical thinking, but are perfect for corralling some of that holiday excitement. When you share Hink Pinks, et al., with your class, you will be giving them learning disguised as fun. They will work on vocabulary, parts of speech, synonyms, rimes, making inferences, and interpreting data. That hits a lot of CCS Standards.

If you are not familiar with Hink Pinks, et al., here's an explanation of them:

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12 Days of Christmas -- Day 4

It's day 4 of my --

Today's gift is Friendly Frog's Holiday Syllable Sort. In this CCSS aligned activity, the kiddos will determine the number of syllables in each holiday related word as portrayed on the sorting cards. Here's a sneak peek:

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12 Days of Christmas -- Day 3

On the ...

my gift to you is ... Green Tree, Green Tree, What Do You See?

This emergent reader has just been renovated, with new formatting and the addition of sentence strips for rebuilding the text. I have also included suggestions for skill instruction and explanations for teaching techniques. These recommendations have their roots in the training I received for Reading Recovery™.

You can read more about this fun, little book in a previous blog post.  

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12 Days of Christmas -- Day 2

I am just sooooo excited to release my new product, Vocabulary Fractions, Christmas Edition!

This critical thinking activity asks students to combine fractional parts of words to create Christmas vocabulary.  For example:

The task gradually increases in difficulty, transitioning from 2 part clues with pictures and words to 4 part clues with just pictures.

Students must deduce the correct words from the pictures. This requires them to exercise flexibility in their thinking.  For example:

At the same time, they must be careful to use correct spelling. Solving equivalent fractions provides even more challenge! 

I urge you to solve several of these task cards together. By "thinking out loud," you will model the problem solving that is required.

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