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Decorate your classroom with some phonics fun! Each of these pennants has a word with the silent b from the mb digraph. Have your students color the pictures and write the words. Then hang the pennants in your classroom.

Think of as many -mb words as you can and write them on this worksheet. You can continue on the back or a separate sheet of paper if you can think of more than fit on the page.

Brainstorm words that include the mb digraph and write them on this word web.

This worksheet includes a word bank with pictures and four mb words. Use one to complete each sentence.

Use the words from the word bank to complete each of the sentences. Words include thumb, climb, lamb, crumbs, and more!

Draw lines to match the pictures to the correct mb words.

Fill in the missing letters to make the mb words. Then write the complete words on the lines below each of the pictures.

Color, trace, and rewrite the words shown on this worksheet. Each word has the -mb digraph.

This worksheet includes a bank of mb words like tomb, thumb, comb, and more. Students will match the words to the appropriate pictures and write them on the primary lines.

With this worksheet, students will color only the pictures that show words with the mb digraph.

Have your students color in the pictures on this anchor chart or simply hang it in your classroom to reference. The following mb words are shown: limb, lamb, comb, numb, thumb, crumb, plumber, and climb.

Pull out the letter stampers and set up a learning center station for students to spell out the -mb words shown here. The words on this worksheet are comb, limb, numb, lamb, and jamb.

Cut out the words and arrange them to make sentences using at least one mb word per sentence. Then write the sentences on the paper provided. Laminate the words to use them again and again as part of learning centers.

Use these cards to play a variety of games or complete different activities. They can be used for memory match games, dry erase writing, notebook flips, or anything else you can think of.

Print out this lamb word slider on card stock paper, and cut everything out along the dotted lines. Then simply slide the word strip through the two openings, and move the strip up and down to view the various words.

Cut out the word wheel and attach the two parts to make a handy study guide. Simply spin the wheel to view and read various -mb words such as crumb, lamb, thumb, and climb.

Practice common mb words such as lamb, comb, climb, thumb, crumb, plumber, and many more with these printable flashcards.

With this cut-and-glue word sort, students will differentiate between words with the digraph mb and other words with the m sound.

Students can color in the pictures, write the mb words to complete the sentences, and cut and staple the pages to make their own phonics mini books.

Cut out the pieces at the bottom of this page to create a fun phonics flip book that can be colored to make one of a kind!

Cut out the mb words at the bottom of this printout and glue them below the correct pictures. This worksheet includes the words lamb, crumb, limb, thumb, comb, and bomb.

These two pictures show the mb words comb and thumb. Cut out the letters at the bottom of the page and glue them in place to spell the words.

Cut out the letters at the bottom of this printout and use them to spell each of the words shown in the pictures: numb and climb. You can color the pictures too!

Work with fractions, decimals, coordinate planes, ratios, and much more with this week's daily Math Buzz worksheets.

This week, students will find the range in a box plot, convert metric-unit measurements, plot fractions on a number line, and much more!

Make sure your students understand the vocabulary terms from this section of The Outsiders by having them answer the questions in this printout. They'll refer to quotes from the text, use context clues, and rely on their knowledge of the words to answer multiple choice questions.

The vocabulary terms for this part of the book are vaguely, idolized, liable, bewildered, acquitted, absent-minded, lousing up, composition, scholarship, and veered. Use these vocabulary cards to practice the words and their definitions.

Answer these questions about chapters 11 and 12 of The Outsiders to reinforce an understanding of key events, themes, and lessons from the novel.

Explain the message Johnny leaves for Ponyboy and Dallas before he dies and how it helps to reveal one or more of the important themes in the novel.

Explain what Ponyboy means when he says this quote at the end of the novel. Consider what the text is revealed to be within the scope of the story and the larger message the author is trying to communicate to readers.

During Randy's visit, he insists Ponyboy did nothing wrong. Write about Ponyboy's response and how readers' knowledge contradicts it, as well as what kind of conflict Ponyboy is experiencing.

At the end of chapter 11, Darry calls Ponyboy "little buddy." This writing prompt asks students to explain the significance of the nickname at that moment and analyze how the scene emphasizes the change in Darry and Ponyboy's relationship.

This writing prompt asks students to describe the events of Dallas Winston's death in their own words, explaining why he acts the way he does and what his ultimate intention was. Use examples from the text to analyze mood and imagery.

Discuss how Johnny's death affects Dally's emotions and decision-making, as well as Ponyboy's assessment of how Johnny and Dally's deaths will be remembered differently by society.

Analyze Johnny's final words to Ponyboy: "Stay gold." Use details from the text to write about the symbolism of the phrase and Johnny's death scene as a whole, as well as how they connect to a central theme in the novel.

With this writing prompt, students will reread a passage from chapter 9. They will explain Ponyboy's feelings and how the passage develops a theme about identity, stereotypes, or social class.

With this activity, students are tasked with interpreting the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, which is referenced several times throughout the novel. They will paraphrase each line of the poem and also create an illustration representing their interpretation.

Make sure your students understand the key events and themes from chapters 9 and 10 of The Outsiders with this printable worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards to help students learn and remember the definitions for the following terms: mortal, menace, survey, conformity, vacant, tense, ruefully, convicts, agony, bluff, and delirious.

Review this section's vocabulary terms with the multiple choice questions on this printout.

With this vocabulary matching worksheet, students will match the terms from this section of the novel to the correct definitions.

Complete this crossword puzzle using vocabulary words from chapters 9 and 10 of The Outsiders, such as bluff, delirious, ruefully, and more!

With this creative writing prompt, students will pretend they are journalists assigned to write the newspaper article about the boys' heroic rescue of the children from the burning church.

Cut out the pictures and glue them to the correct side of the t-chart depending on whether they start with the letters kn or gn.

Answer questions about this section's vocabulary words using context clues from the text as well as your knowledge and understanding of the terms.

Use the vocabulary words from this part of the book to complete the crossword puzzle. Clues about the definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and full-in-the-blank sentences are given.

Unscramble the vocabulary words to correctly spell the terms from this part of The Outsiders. Clues to help students think of the words are given.

Learn and review the definitions for the vocabulary terms from this part of the book. The words are appeal, critical, delinquent, manslaughter, genuine, exploits, moral, divert, reluctantly, desperate, and traitor.

Reinforce your students' understanding of the content of chapters 7 and 8 with these questions. Multiple choice, short answer, and graphic organizers are included.

Your students will write about the mood of a specific scene from chapter 8, explaining how the author creates that mood through dialogue and actions.