This book is the perfect supplement for language arts or literature. It's jam packed with games and activities that draw young and inventive minds into word analysis, vocabulary building and literary awareness. Stimulating reproducible worksheets include practice in idioms, onomatopoeia, metaphors, spoonerisms, slang, and more. Serve a tantalizing dish of language experiences spiced with portions of thinking - serve an Alphabet Soup.

Alphabet Soup - Language Arts Enrichment Activities

Draze, Dianne

Dandy Lion Pubns

Options: A Guide for Creative Decision Making

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Blueprints takes the guesswork out of independent or assigned study projects. Here are complete directions for 16 projects, including a written report, speech, model, debate, experiment, poster, book, survey, demonstration, learning center, multimedia project, problem solution, science project, game, special event, and display. This practical, easy-to-follow approach leads to successful projects every time. Grades 4-8.

Blueprints : A Guide for 16 Independent Study Projects

Science & Math

Technology

Give your students a head start on problem solving. This book presents creative problem solving in a step-by-step manner young children can understand and enjoy. Use the CPS process to solve the problems of the three little pigs, Rapunzel, and the frog prince, as well as more common family problems. Each problem includes illustrated worksheets to take you through each step of the problem-solving process. Grades 2-4.

Primarily Problem Solving - Creative Problem Solving Activities

This refreshing collection of 60 follow-up ideas can be used with any book as either a whole group literature unit or as individual book reports. Activities allow students to analyze elements of good literature and present their own judgement. The activities are divided into reading logs and journals, analysis of setting, analysis of characters, analysis of plot and events, analysis of theme, general activities, personal involvement and judgement. Make this your teaching companion and incorporate thinking into your reading program. Grades 4-8.

Literature Companion (Grades 4-8) (Reproducible Blackline Masters)

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Contains open-ended worksheets for students to enter books they have read, their reactions to the books, and their analysis of settings, characters, plots and events in those books.

Junior Literature Companion

Are your students ready for more advanced analogies: to look deeper into the relationships between seemingly unrelated things? Are they ready to expand their vocabulary and their thinking abilities - to be both flexible and analytical? Then they're ready for Advancing Through Analogies. This valuable resource will be one that you'll pull off the shelf often and use to expand student's critical thinking skills and vocabulary. Grades 5-8.

Advancing Through Analogies

This complete guide to the Creative Problem Solving process is everything you need to teach this versatile skill. CPS is a process that allows people to apply both creative and critical thinking to find solutions to everyday problems. Creative Problem Solving can eliminate the tendency to approach problems in a haphazard manner and, consequently, prevents surprises and/or disappointment with the solution. It is both a way to enhance creative behavior and also a systematic way of organizing information and ideas in order to solve problems. It is an effective way to exercise both divergent and convergent thinking. Students who learn the principles of CPS develop a sense of control in their lives derived from their ability to deal with difficult situations creatively. 
The extensive text includes an explanation of each step in the process, group lessons and extensions, skill builders for each step, open frames to use with each step, and practice problems. It includes ideas for identifying problems, finding relevant facts about each problem, and methods for generating and judging ideas. Examples are from common situations that students can relate to. Attractive illustrations add to the relevant problem situations and clear step-by-step presentation. 
Use these exercises to teach an entire unit on Creative Problem Solving or use selected worksheets for practice in creative or critical thinking or as writing prompts. 
For more information on Creative Problem Solving, refer to Creative Problem Solving: An Introduction, CPS for Kids, CPS for Teens, CPS in the Classroom, and the Creative Problem Solver's Guidebook. 
Grades 5–8

Creative Problem Solving for Kids

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Pr

Students will love the challenge of solving these interest-grabbing puzzles. Armed with the clues (4–6 per puzzle), they'll have to pool their past knowledge, check reference material, and, most importantly, think in order to discover the person, place, or thing to which the clues refer. Clues progress from general to specific. Each exercise is a lesson in cultural or global literacy, as well as an opportunity to develop thinking and reference skills. You'll find a multitude of uses for these motivating riddles. Use them for team competition (or cooperation), weekly challenge, research, or to build thinking skills. These topics build a foundation of information that all literate people should know. Your students will enjoy using these puzzles to expand their knowledge of the world around them while they build important research and thinking skills. Book 1 in this series includes puzzles on: 
<ul>
<li>U.S. geography (cities, states, and land features); </li>
<li>world geography (countries, cities, rivers, and mountains); </li>
<li>landmarks and famous sites; and </li>
<li>famous people (important people from all areas of human endeavors).</li>
</ul>

Clues Book 1

Prufrock Press

Help students improve their mastery of the English language and acquire the keys for understanding thousands of words by studying Greek and Latin word parts (prefixes, root words, and suffixes). This is one of the most complete, usable presentations of vocabulary development using word parts you will find. A knowledge of word parts gives students a head start on decoding words in reading and testing situations. This is the first book in the two-book series. Each of the well-developed lessons in this text includes:
<ul>
<li>one to three word parts along with meanings and sample words, </li>
<li>five vocabulary words that use the prefixes or root words, </li>
<li>definitions and sample sentences for each of the five words, </li>
<li>a practice exercise that lets students apply knowledge of the words and their meanings, and </li>
<li>a one-page review worksheet for one or two lessons that presents more unique opportunities to work with the prefixes and root words and to see how they are combined with suffixes.</li>
</ul> In addition to the student pages, the teacher's information includes:<ul>
<li>an extensive listing of the most common prefixes, root words, and suffixes; </li>
<li>their meanings and sample words; </li>
<li>additional words for each lesson; and</li>
<li>lesson ideas to supplement the word being studied.</li>
</ul>For older students, use Red Hot Root Words, Book 2. Grades 3–5

Red Hot Root Words (Red Hot Root Words, 1)

Routledge

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