Okay, you are probably wondering what in the world is this!  I think it’s called a “flip chute”.  I first saw this little contraption in my teacher friend Beth’s third grade classroom in one of her literacy centers.  She was having the students use the flip chute to identify common and proper nouns.  I absolutely loved this idea and headed to the grocery store to buy a container of orange juice so I could make my very own that evening.  So, here’s how the flip chute works.  First you need the cards.  I made a template on the computer, but you could simply cut an index card in half.  On one side put the question and on the other side, the answer.  So, for my