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A fun game for putting Dewey call numbers in correct alphabetical order or numeric order. Gone are the boring "fake book spines" with the call number in a square at the bottom. Dewey Dash has call numbers for Fiction, Non Fiction, Biography and Everybody(Easy) printed on super cool and colorful sneakers. Directions and complete sets for each call number type are included as well as several blank sneakers so you can create you own to suit whatever you are doing. This could be used for other subje

Why should groundhogs be the only ones to have fun with their shadows? Shadow Fun is a great bulletin board, learning center or fun display that includes the shadows of 10 well loved book characters. Print them out and make a display. Have students try to guess which character belongs to the shadow. Make it a game or contest. Included in packet are 10 shadow and color book characters, directions, answer sheets and a ground hog picture and directions for making the "groundhog hole" answer collect

Power Point introduction to all of the Reference Rosources available to a student for beginning research. Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Non-Fiction, Atlas, Almanac, Magazines, Newpapers, Computers, DVDs, and CD are all covered as well as given reasons why they would be used.Also shows the difference between info from internet and DATABASES. A great introduction and start to research for grades 4,5,6. This is a great resource to use before playing the game, Reference Books Dinner Party also available

Mercy Watson just loves her toast with a “great deal of butter!” What better way to introduce the wonderful vocabulary in Kate DiCamillo’s books then with toast and butter. Kate DiCamillo uses wonderfully rich vocabulary words in her writing, even for the early reader group. The stories are not only fun, they show the students how much great words add to a story. They make it so much better, just like a “great deal of butter” on Mercy’s toast. This unit contains 64 pages that include vocabulary

A basic introduction to Boolean logic when doing internet searches. A simple intro to the basic operators of AND, NOT, OR using some humor, venn diagrams and examples. I use this with my 5h grade students as we begin our research unit and search skills. Includes revies questions at the end and links to two place to do live searches to practice the skills just covered.

Love Harry Potter! Use this fun poster in your classroom, library or home. Great discussion starter or use it for a book review. Do a Subway art quiz and pull one of the words and have a student tell what they know. Use it to introduce the idea of subway art to students and have them create their own.

This is a fun culminating activity for a unit on Reference books. Students get an invitation to a dinner party. The guests of honor are a dictionary, an almanac, an atlas and an encyclopedia. Students each get a "place card" with a question. They have to decide which Guests table they will sit at based on the type of question they have and which resource would answer it the best. This activity comes with files for all components, questions, directions and also suggestions for other uses. It can

Use these posters for bulletin boards, shelf display with books, make several copies for students to check out and take home. You could also use them as a learning center. Students can practice taking notes from informational text, scanning text for keywords or answers to questions. Posters could also be placed by computers with links to more information about the specific sport pictured. The pictographs could also be copied separately and students could see if they can tell what sport it rep

This file contains directions, examples and printouts allowing you to create a "box of French fries" that can be used for all kinds of alphabetical order sorting. This printout comes with 5 labels for general ABC order, Fiction, Non Fiction, Everybody (Easy), and Biography.The box pattern and french fry background. This could easily be used for any type of alphabetical order practice with things like vocab words. I would also consider creating this as a HARD GOOD if you are interested and ship y

A power point introduction to the dictionary for use with students in 3rd or 4th grade. Concepts of front, middle, back are introduced. Using guide words, entry words, reading the entry are all covered. a few short practices to review are included. A great quick intro before working with an actual dictionary. Can also be used as a quick review tool.

Fun subway art representing many classic pieces of literature or novels. Great for libraries, classrooms, reading classrooms, school offices or even personal decoration. Fun to look at and figure out what novel it is for. This Free one is for the book Charlotte's Web. More to come.

With the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, this is a great resource to share with students. The power point is actually two in one. The first covers the very first Winter Olympics in 1924. The second ppt covers the upcoming Sochi Olympics. Showing the stadium, arenas, events and information about Sochi. It can be used all at once or in parts leading up to the Olympics. Use as an example of shortening information for a report. Compare and contrast how the olympics have changed. Excellent source for

Bow wow WOW!! These fun learning posters and center activities will help your students learn all about the specific text features in non fiction books. Plus, what kid doesn't love a fun dog theme! Use the posters for instruction. There are 18 vocabulary words and definitions written on dog bones. The matching game has a photograph of a specific text feature and a blank bone to place the matching vocabulary bone inside. A great center activity to reinforce the skills. One comprehensive set of 18

This is a fun game to practice using dictionary skills. Students work in small groups. Each group gets a game board that has shopping bags with the name of an unusual profession printed on the front. The board game has directions and a pack of cards with pictures of something a person practicing that profession might use (ie.Toenail clippers = Podiatrist) Students must look up the name of the profession in the dictionary and after reading the definition decide which picture would be the Perfect

PIG is a fun game to use to practice nonsense word fluency for Kindergarten students. Can be played by 2-4 players. Nonsense word cards are shuffled. Several cards with a picture of a pig are included. Each player gets a Pig Pen mat. Cards are in a pile upside down. First player picks card, pronounces the nonsense word (may do whole word or sound out each phoneme) if correct they keep card in their Pig Pen. If not, card is placed in discard pile. If player gets a PIG card they get to take the ot

Super Wow Cow is here to rescue student's writing form the same old dull and boring words. This package contains, Super Wow Cow clip art, how to introduce, and word lists blanks for great words and banned words. Super Wow Cow has a Barn to where all the boring words are BANISHED! All words and pictures for posters are included, just print them out. Pow call-outs are included to print great words on and Hay bales are for the stay away words! Super Wow Cow could also be used for any kind of positi

An interactive lesson for introducing various literary genre. After a lesson and introduction to the genre covered and examples of books from the library, the students use the game for review.Begins with an introduction of the word GENRE and then students are presented with islands floating in the seas of fiction or non-fiction. Each island is labeled with a genre (Realistic Fiction, Bigraphy, etc) The palm tree leaves have the elements of that genre. Students pick picture cards and determine wh

A beginning research activity. Students research to discover the truth vs. the myths about bats. Includes worksheet with questions, links to safe web sites with good information, bat clip art for making display. Words in fun fonts for putting titles on display. Students research for information and then put fact or myth inside the bat. Create a bat cave and put true fact bats in the cave and myth bats outside of the cave. Makes a wonderful hallway display

This activity is used for Kindergarten students to assess the library vocabulary or information they need to know. Each time they can correctly answer a question, they get another loop added to their “data-pillar’s” body. This can be adapted to ANY data collection by students in KDG or First Grade. Excellent for research on any topic. Older students can write in information they have collected on their research topic. Easily adapted for math, science social studies or

Literature Subway Art Collection. Subway art of famous or classic children's books. Strega Nona is a wonderful tale of magic, friendship, listening and consequences. Print out this art for your classroom, library, office or children's room.