This is a glossary entry for the term "Puns" including a definition and an extensive list of examples.

This is great site where you can learn about puns and have fun as well. There is a "Pun of the Day" and a "Pun Search" to find phrases with specific words.

For this lesson, students will examine some Tom Swiftie dialogue puns, paying special attention to their punctuation. First in groups and then as individuals, students will create their own Tom Swiftie puns for their writer's notebooks...

A Writer's Workshop idea in which students learn to use and punctuate adverbs and specific dialogue to create puns called Tom Swifties. Teacher instructions, student instructions, and student writing samples are provided, as well as an...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Rhyme & PUNishment Adventures in Wordplay by Brian P. Cleary to learn to identify and understand the use of puns. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided...

This lesson introduces puns in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

A humorous collection of periodic table puns.

This article focuses on Chinese Muslims in the US. It looks at two Chinese restaurants in Queens New York and their menus.

A lesson plan in which students choose three selections of interesting word play in a text and then work with a partner to discuss their choices. Materials are included.

In this poem, Chua explores the love between two goldfish living in a fish bowl. As you read, take note of on the use of puns throughout the poem and their multiple meanings. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]

Eight slides introducing different types of humor in writing including irony, caricature, satire, wit, blunders, hyperbole, jokes, practical jokes, and puns.

Literary terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following words: allusion, antagonist, dialogue, flashback, imagery, protagonist, symbol, dialect, hyperbole, idiom, irony, parody, pun, sarcasm, understatment, and...

Literary elements are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: allusion, antagonist, dialogue, flashback, imagery, protagonist, symbol, dialect, hyperbole, idiom, irony, parody, pun, sarcasm,...

This online game allows students to try and guess a given homonym or visual pun. For each correct answer, the student will get a new homonym to guess.

A printable worksheet with four puns from three of William Shakespeare's most famous works.

Here read a summary of and commentary on Edgar Allan Poe's famous tale, "The Cask of Amontillado." Commentary provides analysis of the story's irony, foreshadowing, and puns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart Activotes are used to help students recall identities of major characters, quotes, and literary terms in Shakespearean play, Midsummer Night's Dream.

This a two-page PDF of the article "The Rhetorical Organization of the Neoclassical Couplet."

A new cartoon joke weekly and an archive of previous strips organized by topic (animal, family, doctor). All involve a pun or play on words, and are drawn in a non-busy, ELL/ESL friendly style.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Chip's Un-Natural History by Frederick A. Stokes & Brother (1888). It features funny, pun-filled definitions of a variety of humans and animals; each definition...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines and learn about the ignition coil, a type of step-up transformer, key (no pun intended) to the operation of your car. (Java tutorial)

More than a dry series of facts about Ohm's life, this page from the University of St. Andrews provides interesting anecdotal accounts which reveal the personality behind the man. Thorough, interesting and an abundance of facts. A great...

Global warming is a hot topic (no pun intended). The Earth is warming up. While that may be hard to believe in the middle of winter, if it's true it could mean big changes for our planet. For more info on this topic, browse on!

This site on the book "Black and White" by David Macaulay, includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources.