Beginning of the Year: These task cards are a great way for students to break the ice with each other and establish classroom expectations, all while having fun. Questions include: * Ice breakers * Fun questions about school * Ice breakers

End of the Year: These task cards are a great way for students to reflect about their year and the progress and achievements they have made while having fun at the same time.

Similes and Metaphors: This bundle includes cootie catchers for each topic and is a great way for students to have fun while they learn about similes and metaphors. These cootie catchers sell individually for $3.90; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3! Similes and Metaphors Contents: 1. Similes: This activity has students visually seeing a picture and determining what phrase it is. The following similes are included: Cool as a cucumber Face lit up like a light bulb Fast as lightning Slept like a log Blind as a bat Toes were as cold as ice His anger erupted like a volcano Proud as a peacock Thank you to Monster Wrangler Mike who provided the images 2. Metaphors: This product includes two cootie catchers (totaling 16 metaphors) which require students to interpret the meaning of a metaphor used within a sentence. Students are given multiple choice options for the answer choices, and answers are included.

Synonyms and Antonyms: This bundle includes cootie catchers for each topic and is a great way for students to have fun while they improve their vocabulary by practicing synonyms and antonyms. These cootie catchers sell individually for $3.90; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3! Synonyms and Antonyms Contents: This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 32 in total (16 for each topic), and then asked to identify the synonyms or antonym of a vocabulary word within the sentence. Multiple choice options are given along with the correct answer. This bundle contains the following products: 1. Synonyms 2. Antonyms

Writing Prompts: This writing prompts bundle includes cootie catchers for each topic shown below and is a great way for students to have fun while improving their thinking, discussion, and writing skills. All these cootie catchers sell individually for $6.6; as a bundle they are 25% off, for $4.95! This bundle contains the following products: 1. Creative and Critical Thinking 2. Reading Response 3. Would You Rather? 4. Writing Prompts

Sentences: This sentences bundle includes cootie catchers for each topic shown below and is a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with sentences. All these cootie catchers sell individually for $13.65; as a bundle they are 25% off, for $9.95! This bundle contains the following products: 1. Complete and Compound Subject and Predicate 2. Compound Subject and Predicate 3. Fragments and Run-Ons 4. Mentor Sentences 5. Prepositional Phrases 6. Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 7. Types of Sentences

Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots: This bundle includes cootie catchers for each topic and is a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with prefixes, suffixes, and root words. All these cootie catchers sell individually for $10; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $7.95! This bundle contains the following products: 1. Prefixes 2. Suffixes 3. Greek and Latin Roots 4. Root Words

Punctuation: This punctuation cootie catcher bundle is a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks. All these cootie catchers sell individually for $5.65; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4.50! This punctuation bundle contains each of the following products: 1. Apostrophes 2. Commas 3. Quotation Marks

Prefixes and Suffixes: This prefixes and suffixes bundle includes cootie catchers for each topic and is a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with prefixes and suffixes. All these cootie catchers sell individually for $3.90; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3! Each product includes two cootie catchers (a total of 4) with the following content: 1. Students add one of four choices of prefixes/ suffixes to a base word within a sentence. 2. Students fill in the blank in a sentence with the correct word, given four choices. 1. Prefixes 2. Suffixes

Analogies: This analogies bundle includes cootie catchers for the 6th, 7th, and 8th middle school grade levels which is outlined below: All these lessons sell individually for $5.85; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4.68! 1. 6th Grade Analogies 2. 7th Grade Analogies 3. 8th Grade Analogies

Analogies: This analogies bundle includes cootie catchers for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th elementary school grade levels which is outlined below: All these lessons sell individually for $5.85; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4.68! 1. 3rd Grade Analogies 2. 4th Grade Analogies 3. 5th Grade Analogies

Greek and Latin Roots: This Bundle includes all 4 of my cootie catchers covering Greek and Latin Roots which is outlined below: All these lessons sell individually for $7.80; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $5.95! 1. Science 2. English Language Arts 3. Math 4. Common Roots

Inference: This Inference bundle includes all 5 of my cootie catchers involving inference which is outlined below: All these lessons sell individually for $9.75; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $7.80! 1. Setting 2. Making Predictions 3. Character Traits 4. Inference 5. Drawing Conclusions

Helping Verbs: These helping verbs cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice identifying helping verbs within sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 16 in total, and then asked to identify the helping verb or helping verbs within the sentence. Answers are included. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

Plural Nouns: These plural nouns cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice using plural nouns within sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 16 in total, and then asked to identify the correct plural noun that fits into the sentence. Answers are included. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

Pronouns: These pronouns cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning how to identify the correct usage of pronouns within sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity contains two cootie catchers, totaling 16 sentences, and contains the following types of problems: 1. Students change the sentence to add the correct pronoun. 2. Students identifying the pronoun within a sentence 3. Students fill in the blank with the correct pronoun ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

Capitalization: These capitalization cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice the capitalization rules by identifying words that need to be capitalized. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 16 in total, and then asked to identify all the words that should be capitalized. Answers are included. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

Collective Nouns: These collective nouns cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify collective nouns. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 16 in total, and then asked to identify the correct collective noun. Answers are included. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

Fluency Passages: These fluency passages cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their their oral reading fluency. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. There are 16 short passages (fiction and non-fiction) for students to practice their fluency of phrases and sentences. These cootie catchers can be used in the following ways: * Reading with Partneres * Individual Reading * Small fluency Groups * Reading to the Class * Reading Circles * Warm Ups * SPED ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ Reading Strategies: Authors Purpose Cause and Effect Character Traits Compare and Contrast with Pictures Compare and Contrast Creative and Critical Thinking Drawing Conclusions Fact or Opinion Figurative Language Fluency Generalizations Genre Identification Genre Types Idioms Inference Literary Devices Main Idea Metaphors Nonfiction Text Features Paraphrasing Parts of a Book Personification Point of View Predictions Reading Comprehension Reading Response Questions Restating the Question Sequencing Setting Similes Story Elements Summarizing Text Structures Text Structures: Informational Text Structures Theme Writing Prompts ♦ Vocabulary: Analogies (Grades 3-5) Analogies (Grades 6-8) Analogies (Grade 9) Antonyms Compound Words Context Clues Greek and Latin Roots Homophones Homonyms Multiple Meaning Words Prefixes Root Words Shades of Meaning Spelling Suffixes Synonyms Tone and Mood Transition Words ♦ Grammar: Adjective Identification Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative Adverbs Appositives Apostrophes Capitalization Clauses Commas Conjunctions Contractions Mentor Sentences Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural Nouns: Collective Nouns: Common and Proper Nouns: Irregular Plural Nouns: Plural Nouns Nouns: Possessive Nouns Parts of Speech Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Pronouns: Identification Pronouns: Possessive Pronoun Antecedent Agreement Quotation Marks Sentence Types Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound Verb Identification Verb Tenses Verbs: Helping Verbs: Irregular Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement