Jokes and Background Knowledge: Multiple Choice Edition

by Maggie McNamara

Price: 250 points or $2.5 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,specialed,language

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 select 2 pieces of background information they need to know to make the jokes make sense (from a field of 3). 25 jokes related to 5 fandoms are available for practice.