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Writing Riddles
What's got 60 eyes, 150 fingers, and an endless number of ideas? Your language arts class! Challenge young writers to come up with clever riddles with an online poetry lesson.
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Movie Riddles: An ESL Activity to Get Student Talking About Movies
Enjoy the thrill of the movies with this ESL activity! Not only can learners talk about their favorite films, but in creating riddles about their chosen movies, they can practice the skills of context clues and deductive reasoning. This...
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Riddle Cards
What better way to introduce making inferences than with riddle cards? Young readers practice making inferences through riddle cards and other types of reading, while filling out graphic organizers. The resource even comes with blank...
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Riddles
What does it mean? Learners read four riddles, connecting them to the pictures they are describing. Consider challenging them to cover up the pictures before attempting the riddles, as this will greatly increase the difficulty. Next,...
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Riddles
Riddles can be a fun way to practice word decoding. Scholars read two riddles to determine the word each is referencing. These riddles are based on word analysis to build letters one at a time rather than big-picture idea concepts....
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Color Tile Riddles
In this color the tile riddles activity, students solve and complete 6 different puzzles that include various riddles to solve. First, they determine the number that is represented by what color according to the information given. Then,...
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Write Your Own Riddles
Have your class write their own riddles using this resource. Learners read a riddle, figure out the answer, and then discuss the characteristics of this type of writing. It is a great way to have your class embark on their own...
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The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf
Riddle me this! What do kennings, caesura, and alliteration have to do with the Nowell Codex? Introduce class members to Anglo-Saxon poetry and prepare readers for a study of Beowulf with a series of activities that includes asking...
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Activity Plan 4-5: Riddles by the Bagful!
Young scholars write a riddle to be included in a class riddle book. For this creative-thinking lesson, the teacher will introduce children to riddles, then guide children through the process of writing and illustrating their own...
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Riddles
Promote critical-thinking skills with riddles. While this resource only has two example of riddles, it could be used as a model for other explorations. A teacher could augment this resource with a greater variety of examples.
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Riddle Poem
Second graders practice writing skills by writing riddle poems using adjectives to describe vegetables.
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Jokes And Riddles
For this writing worksheet, learners first select a collection of jokes and riddles to read. Students complete 4 activities: illustrating jokes, making a matching game with riddles and answers, making a comic strip, and telling a joke...
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Guess Again!
Students define and read riddles, and differentiate between poems and riddles. They complete a class Venn Diagram comparing poems and riddles, and play an attribute guessing game with the teacher. Students then identify the rhyming words...
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#14 Riddles
Students listen to riddles and identify Dolch sight words in the riddles. In this sight words lesson, students listen to riddles and guess the sight word for the riddle. Students solve sight word riddles.
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Size Riddles
Students investigate shapes and sizes by creating a riddle. In this geometry instructional activity, students read one of two books and investigate facts about an object's size. Students write a riddle using the facts they have read...
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Cryptogram: China Riddle
In this solving a riddle about students in China learning exercise, students unscramble words and use the letters that are numbered to solve the riddle. Students write 12 answers.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Mystery Valentine
Riddle me this! As part of a Valentine's celebration, class members are challenged to find the key to solve the riddle in Edgar Allan Poe's Valentine poem.
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Animal Riddles
Students research an animal using online research .They create a multimedia riddle using the information and share it with the class.
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Riddles and Words
Students play vocabulary game in which they create riddles and answers.
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Riddles Are Word Puzzles
In this riddles activity, students read 6 clues to a common object. From two choices, students write the answer to the riddle. There is a picture clue for each riddle.
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Riddles with Blending
Young scholars examine how blending sounds together helps them pronounce words. They look a flash cards with letters on them in order to blend the letter sounds together before listening to riddles that encourage them to blend letters...
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Sleepy Riddle
In this sleepy riddle worksheet, students use the letter key to fill in the numbered blanks to form the 2 words that answer the riddle.
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Mesmerizing Multiple Meaning Riddles
Students write and illustrate riddles using context clues to define multiple meaning words that they compile into a book. They read the book, Miss Nelson Has a Field Day, and observe the many different multiple meaning words used in the...
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Stone Soup
First graders examine the use of logic, deduction, and inference to determine the answers to riddles. They listen to a teacher read aloud of Heather Forest's, Stone Soup before discussing the story which gauges their comprehension....
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