This seasonally appropriate vocabulary builder/brain teaser entitled Br-r-r-r-r! unleashes a group of terms that share the phonetic syllable "burr." Students are challenged to use given definitions and scrambled spellings to identify the targeted words. Part One has thirty-eight items. Part Two, constructed around more challenging vocabulary, has thirty-three items. A related graphic organizer for writing guides students through the required preliminaries for a composition about their Frosty Favorites.
Full answer keys are included. Six pages of script. Download the sample page for a closer look.
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December 18, 2011
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Immediately after graduating from Lenoir Rhyne College in 1965 with a degree in high school business education, I touched ground and taxied into a self-contained elementary classroom filled to the brim with 38 eighth graders. Not the place I had planned to spend the next thirty years, but unwittingly, I landed where I belonged! Most of my thirty years in education were spent living happily in the delightful, chaotic, but always interesting world of sixth, seventh, and eight graders. For three of those years I served as a facilitator for gifted education in twelve elementary schools, where I worked with fourth, fifth, and sixth graders and dozens of teachers. During the last phase of my career, I traveled to schools throughout western North Carolina and presented workshops based on a program for teaching composition skills that I authored and used in my classroom. In 1997, after retiring from the classroom, I founded Taking Grades Publishing Company and began a second career writing teaching materials for middle grade language arts teachers. The company has enjoyed steady growth and can now claim customers in all fifty states, several Canadian provinces, and even Taiwan! Joining the TeachersPayTeachers team in November 2008 was the beginning of my third career in education. Once a teacher. Always a teacher!
