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Puns for Teachers

  • A backward poet writes inverse.
  • Using a broken pencil is pointless.
  • A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
  • The school calendar’s days are numbered.
  • He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
  • Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
  • Santa’s helpers are subordinate Clauses.
  • Cross country runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of defeat.
  • A hangover is the Wrath of Grapes.
  • Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
  • Those who gossip have a sense of rumor.
  • Without geometry, life is pointless.
  • Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
  • The teacher forgot to take attendance. She was absent-minded.
  • Old math teachers never die, they just become irrational.
  • When the teacher asked a question the students were all up in arms.
  • He used to teach computers, but then he lost his drive.
  • The globe means the world to a social studies teacher.
  • Math teachers have too many problems.
  • My science teacher was absent today. He left a note that said, “Gone Fission”.
  • English teachers never write students off.
  • The recipe for re-writing and essay involves a lot of shortening.
  • The music students were out of control. They were all keyed up.
  • If you leave alphabet soup on the stove, it could spell disaster.
  • The road to success is always under construction.

Character Compare Contrast Graphic Organizer

This is a Venn diagram comparison organizer for a story character and a student. On the left side, write characteristics for the main character in the story. On the right side, writes characteristics for the student. In the middle, write the characteristics they share.
Character Compare Contrast Venn Diagram

Reading Strategies Posters

Post these reading strategies on the wall to remind students how to be critical readers. Students are encouraged to clarify, connect, evaluate, predict and question while they read. This .pdf file contains six pages, one page for each reading strategy.
Reading Strategies Posters

Note Taking Organizer

This note taking template has five boxes without labels. Type the headings that fit your needs. Just click in the blank spaces, type, print or photocopy for students. Suggested uses include: textbook chapters, current event articles, lectures and interviews.
Note Taking

Aesop’s Fables Reading Comprehension #4

The Tortoise and the Hare Reading Comprehension
This story from Aesop’s Fables is followed by reading comprehension questions and the answer key.
Aesop's Fables Reading Comprehension

Of Mice and Men Notes Organizer

This file contains two pages shown in the thumbnail images. One is the completed key for the teacher. The second is the blank note-taker for students. The purpose is to give a brief introduction to key facts about John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.
Of Mice and Men notes key Of Mice and Men notes organizer

Beginning, End Story Summary Sheet

Similar to the Beginning, Middle and End Story Summary Sheet, young writers use this page to write sentences summarizing just the beginning and end of the story.
Beginning End Story Summary Sheet

Beginning, Middle, End Story Summary Sheet

Young writers use this page to write sentences summarizing the beginning, middle and end of the story. It could be a story they have read or one the teacher has read to them.
Beginning Middle End Summary Sheet




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