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From zombie history to writing prompts and survival preparedness, this mix of zombie-themed worksheets is the perfect treat for kids who need fun brain breaks and supplementary work.

A Brain Break: Zombpocalypse

Crossword puzzles help build brain power and bolster reasoning skills. Your child will find making their own crossword puzzle challenging, but so fun!

Make Your Own Crossword Puzzle

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map

Does your fifth grader know how to spell Kwanzaa? What about Hanukkah? This challenging crossword will have him puzzling over all things winter.

Winter Crossword

When your students complete this crossword puzzle they will be introduced to a variety of words that are commonly seen in 5th grade texts and basal readers.

5th Grade Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

An anagram is a word that can be rearranged to create other words. Make an anagram by using the same letters but in a different order!

Five Letter Anagrams

Identify opposites and test your vocabulary in this autumnal word puzzle!

Fall Crossword: Antonyms

Use your vocabulary to solve this autumnal synonym puzzle!

Fall Crossword: Synonyms

Encourage students to make connections as they learn new vocabulary with this Vocabulary Connections Map.

Vocabulary Toolkit: Vocabulary Connections Map

Use this lesson to help your ELs identify and understand the meaning of metaphors. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson What's a Metaphor?

Making Sense of Metaphors

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand the structure and meaning of similes. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Soulful Similes and Musical Metaphors.

Similes with Linking Words

Prepare your students to analyze and respond to literature by practicing five types of responses: predictions, questions, clarification, connections, and opinions.

Five Ways to Respond to Literature

Help students decode tricky language in the Declaration of Independence with an integrated vocabulary and history lesson. After reviewing vocabulary as a class, students will rewrite the Declaration of Independence in kid-friendly language.

Vocabulary in the Declaration of Independence

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

Informational Text: Close Reading

In this great grammar lesson, students will learn to identify the independent and dependent clause in a complex sentence. Then, they will play a game of grammar-themed musical chairs!

Musical Chairs with Complex Sentences

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