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Library skills Common Core L.6.5 resources
Etymology Vocabulary Project
Use this mini-research project to explore the history of the English language, word origins, and how words are added to the language.In this enrichment lesson, students learn about word etymology, select a personally meaningful theme, and assemble a collection of terms related to that theme in a personal dictionary. The finished product is a booklet, poster, or other visual display with the terms and definitions as well as labels indicating the etymology of the words. Word Etymology Categories
Grades:
5th - 6th
PUN TASK CARDS Fall Edition Research Critical Thinking
A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms. The challenge in this activity is to find a word or phrase associated with FALL that fulfills the clue on the task card.Use these task cards to create a research activity. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.CONTENTS40 task cards (4
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â PUN TASK CARDS BUNDLE Research Critical Thinking
PUN TASK CARDS Bee Edition Research Critical Thinking
A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms. The challenge in this activity is to find a word that contains the /bē/ sound, or similar, and fulfills the clue on the task card.Use these task cards to create a research activity. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.CONTENTS40 tas
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Also included in:Â PUN TASK CARDS BUNDLE Research Critical Thinking
PUN TASK CARDS Owl Edition Research Critical Thinking
A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms. The challenge in this activity is to find a word that contains the /ow/ or /al/ sound, or similar, and fulfills the clue on the task card.Use these OWL PUNS task cards to create a research activity. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Eas
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Also included in:Â PUN TASK CARDS BUNDLE Research Critical Thinking
PUN TASK CARDS Ant Edition Research Critical Thinking
A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms. The challenge in this activity is to find a word that ends with –ANT and fulfills the clue on the task card.Use these task cards to create a research activity. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.CONTENTS40 task cards (4/page)PUN an
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Also included in:Â PUN TASK CARDS BUNDLE Research Critical Thinking
Library Lesson: Multicultural Cinderella Fairy Tales with 6g
Explore cultural diversity and reinforce the universality of storytelling using multicultural renditions of the exemplar fairy tale "Cinderella." Students usually know the Cinderella story, but examining elements of a fairy tale with an interspersed read-aloud of the original Perrault gives it new meaning. For the hands-on activity, student partners read a different cultural rendition of Cinderella and fill out a double-bubble graphic organizer to see how the details of the same story differ de
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Library Lessons: Reading & Writing Poetry Unit for Middle School Grade 6
Make poetry come alive for students with this 2-visit Library Lesson unit focused on Reading & Writing Literacy and aligned to National School Library Standards & ELA Common Core. Lesson 1 is short enough to allow time for students to browse & choose books, and for sustained, silent reading. Lesson 2 has a hands-on creative activity with a takeaway booklet of original poems.Lessons:How does figurative language create sensations in my mind? A book buffet for students to examine the po
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Library Lesson: Multicultural Folktales with 6g
Explore cultural diversity and reinforce the universality of storytelling using cultural folktales of various countries. Brief instruction on background of folktales, their purpose, and how they portray the unique beliefs, customs, and traditions of a group of people.Student partners read one of the 5 kinds of folktale (fairy tale, myth, fable, legend, tall tale) and use a Zoom In-Zoom Out graphic organizer to identify unique cultural elements, then summarize the story and glean universal themes
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Grades:
5th - 7th
PUN TASK CARDS FREEBIE Bumblebee Edition Research Critical Thinking
A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms. The challenge in this FREE activity is to find a word that sounds similar to BUMBLEBEE and fulfills the clue on the task card.Use these task cards to create a research activity. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.CONTENTS8 task car
Grades:
4th - 7th
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