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Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Captain Sham's Boat Rentals

Captain Sham needs a new slogan since his is grammatically incorrect. Come up with a new slogan and card for his business

2. Costume

Come to class dressed up as one of the characters from the story. Be sure to incorporate things that are unique to that character. See if your classmates can guess who you are.

3. Reporting the News

Do a news report on the house that fell off the cliff in the hurricane. Be sure...
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