Back to School Language Passages for Vocabulary, Idioms, and Inferencing

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A language activity that includes eight flip books to cover different aspects of language! Each flip book has its own, unique story.

Description

This collection of EIGHT higher-level language and critical thinking flip books is perfect for students from upper elementary through middle school. Each of the 8 books in this set contains an original short story around which the following language activities are centered:

Emotions & Problem Solving

Answer questions about characters in the story to practice labeling and describing emotions as well as perspective taking. Use problem solving skills to answer questions about alternative solutions to problems and solve hypothetical situations.

Figurative Language & Vocabulary

Each story contains an idiom related to the theme. Identify the meaning of the idiom from the options. Additionally, challenging vocabulary words are listed for targeted practice.

See below for a list of idioms included in this specific set.

Questions

For each story, five WH questions are provided in order to target auditory comprehension, recall, etc. . Additionally, two inference questions are provided to probe details which are not directly listed in the story.

Idioms

•Hit the books

•Pass with flying colors

•Teacher’s pet

•Ring a bell

•School of thought

•Cover a lot of ground

•Cut class

•Teach an old dog new tricks

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