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Having Fun with Dialogues

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how to gain confidence in speaking through using scripted dialogues. They should remember to use familiar dialogues/dialogues based on language recently studied. Students incorporate nonsense into the mix of...
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If I Were An Animal

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students choose a favorite animal and identify its prominent characteristics. They draw their favorite animal adding their own heads to animal bodies. Then they write a creative, detailed short story about themselves as a nonsense creature.
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Ordering Sentences: Literacy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Use this resource as a creative way to have your class practice sentence structure. Learners take a sentence that has been scrambled into a nonsensical communication, and reorder the words. The process requires thought and ingenuity. It...
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Poetry Society

The Jumblies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Who would ever think to go to sea in a sieve? Only Edward Lear's Jumblies! The poem "The Jumblies" is the inspiration for these poetry reading and writing activities that ask learners to think about how strangers are different, consider...
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Delps and Googles

For Students 1st
In this mathematical reasoning learning exercise, 1st graders are shown shapes named with the nonsense terms of Delps and Googles. They circle shapes with similar characteristics.
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Write Your Own Poem: Rhyming Word Pattern -end, -ind, -and

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this rhyming verse worksheet, students read 20 words in a chart and color them according to the directions, using a different color for each ending rhyme pattern. Students then answer 10 questions in which they write simple nonsense...
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Newton's Laws

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Beginning with definitions of mass and foce, this excellent set of slides summarizes Newton's Laws of motion and universal bravitaions. Components of each law are explained along with examples and questions to inspire discussion. This is...
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BASIC GRAMMAR REVIEW Using "Jabberwocky"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners use the poem Jabberwocky to discover where they are weak in grammar. They rewrite the poem using standard dialect words instead of nonsense words.
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Listening for Tone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas...
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You've Got a Wocket Where?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify rhyming word pairs, apply generalizations about the principle of onsets and "rimes," and create and classify multiple lists of words, both real and nonsense, based on given rhymes.
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Farm Animals Word Search Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this farm animals word search worksheet, students locate 20 words hidden in a puzzle. They find the words and then read a rhyming slang expression that means: not likely or nonsense.
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Jabberwocky Questions

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
In this poetry analysis worksheet, students answer 5 short answer and essay questions based on the content and literary elements of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky." Questions require students to compare good and evil forces in the...
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Short Poems Are Scary!

For Teachers K - 5th
What do all those chairs and pencils do in the classroom once everyone leaves? Allow imaginations to run wild with frighteningly short poems!
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Lilting Limericks

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the formula for writing limericks and use it to write their own poems.
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Word Structure

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students infer the meanings of unfamiliar words using context clues and knowledge of prefixes and suffixes. They identify vocabulary words as nouns or adjectives using context clues and suffixes. In addition, they decide the meaning of a...
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Questions

For Students 5th - 6th
For this ESL questions and answers worksheet, students read 8 answers. Kids write a question that could be answered in this way. Students then read 10 groups of nonsense words and put them in order to form a coherent sentence.
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Helping with Math

Using Integers

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Given nine clues, investigators write down a positive or negative integer that represents the scenario. Then they compare pairs of integers and identify which is less or which is greater according to specified directions. This is a...
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Write Your Own Poem 'ap'

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this rhyming words worksheet, students complete four activities that help them learn rhyming words containing 'ap.' Students color words that rhyme with cap, pair the rhyming words, make silly sentence with the words and a nonsense poem.
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The Language of Our World

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students combine prefixes and suffixes to form nonsense words and sentences in the style of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky."  In this "Jabberwocky" lesson, students brainstorm ways to decode an unfamiliar word and apply these skills to the...
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Floogle Game

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a game of concentration, listening, and speech. While standing in a circle, students pass around an object which has been named a nonsense word. Two objects are passed around the circle, in opposite directions,...
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Word Family Activities and American Symbols

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word family and American symbols worksheet, students learn about word families and American symbols. They complete an activity in which they create real and nonsense words by combining sounds of the alphabet with 7 different word...
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Alphabetical Order Practice

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this alphabetical order worksheet, learners put a set of 15 "nonsense" words in alphabetical order. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Creating Historians: Giving Scholars the Answers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
How allowing index cards on tests can empower critical thinking; part one of a series on approaching social studies as a group of historians.
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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves Storia Teaching Guide

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves? Little learners read a new version of the old swallow story with a fall twist as they try to answer the big question; Why is that lady swallowing all that weird stuff? The teacher's guide...

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