Jokes and Background Knowledge: Free Response Edition

by Maggie McNamara

Price: 250 points or $2.5 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,specialed,comprehensionAndCollaboration,expressiveLanguage,pragmatics,socialAspectsOfCommunication

Grades: 2,3,4,5,6

Description: While adults may groan their way through this corny jokes, kids can benefit from using them as helpful learning tools! Humor is based off of background knowledge. In this activity, have students brainstorm 2 pieces of background information they would need to know (in their own words) to make the jokes make sense. The SLP or teacher leading or assigning the task would score the relevancy of the student responses. 25 jokes related to 5 fandoms are available for practice.