A Ticket To Ride Template

Description: This multi-purpose template was built from a Microsoft Word template (there are all kinds included in your software - choose "new" then select from options included double sided bookmarks). This simple tool has uses in grades K-12 and in virtually any subject where you are teaching students. Here are a few ideas: Ride on the Reading Train (K-2) - have students use this template to create a simple book review (rear) and recommendation (front). Post them with clips on a railroad track made of balsa wood or twine and let students retrieve, read over and create "I want to read next" list, based on friend's suggestions. The tickets are convenient to carry to the "author chair" in writer's workshop to share during presentation. A Ticket to Ride (middle school) - can be used in vocabulary instruction (synonym searches), word choice activities (writing), or even a twist on "diagramming sentences" where various parts of speech are singularly written on tickets and students either remove the requested part of speech (verb, adjective, etc.) from a sentence strip made of tickets OR combine their tickets to create complete sentences with sentence variety or create complex sentences, evaluate independent and dependent clauses, etc. The sky's the limit - all with one simple tool. Make a PDF of tickets so that students can use Powerpoint or Word to do these activities virtually.

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