Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: If the Clue Fits [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students identify a word on a word pyramid based on clues about its syllables and phonemes. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Variant Correspondences: The Write Word [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game moving around the game board by identifying the spelling pattern of words. Materials are included.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards Dictionaries and Glossaries
View a lesson on using dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meaning of words. Test your skills using Test Mode or Game Mode.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Compound Words
Students will listen to the story Once There Was A Bull (frog) and identify the compound words in the story, then work with a partner to think of additional examples of compound words.
Starfall
Starfall: Quotations From Shakespeare
This interactive ebook illustrates many of William Shakespeare's famous quotations. Children can listen to the quotes or click on the sound mute button to read them independently.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words
Some words may sound like other words, but using the wrong word can lead to confusion and madness. A dictionary would be helpful to make sure you know what you're talking about! [0:40]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Some Frequently Confused Words
Some words in English can look and sound similar, but have entirely different meanings. Keep an eye and ear out for them; beware of commonly confused words. [0:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: Too to Two
Can you tell the difference between the words 'to,' two,' and 'too'?
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Suffix Ly
A brief tutorial about the use of the "ly" suffix and its effect on a word, followed by questions asking students to choose the appropriate "ly" word to complete sentences and to find the base word in four words with "ly" suffixes....
Other
Free Phonics Lessons: Lesson 58: Digraphs: /Ph/ and /Gh/
Ready-to-print phonics activity on the digraphs "ph" and "gh." Includes information on the digraphs, word lists, sentences using words in context, and opportunities for students to write spelling words and original sentences.
abcteach
Abcteach: Homonyms Crossword Puzzle [Pdf]
This puzzle asks students to identify the other word in a pair of homonyms in order to complete the puzzle. Printable.
Quia
Quia: Comparing Numbers
This is a 15-question exercise/assessment for homonyms; students select the correct word from the homonyms in the box that fits the sentence.
Other
Jump Start: Suffix Search [Pdf]
Students practice making words with -ed, -ing, and -er suffixes. [PDF]
Quia
Quia: Root/base Words
In this Concentration game, students match the root words with the words complete with suffixes.
Quia
Quia: Root/base Words
In this learning game, students match words with their correct root word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Noah Webster
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a celebration of Dictionary Day, with information about Noah Webster and the dictionary.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Onset Rhyme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A prefix is a group of letters that go in front of a word. Using a prefix changes the meaning of that word. This lesson will cover the following prefixes: super, sub, un, pre, uni, bi, tri.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes Mis
[Free Registration/Login Required] Non & Anti - Students will recognize and use the prefixes mis, non, ex, co, anti.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes and Suffixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews prefixes, root words, and suffixes. Students practice constructing sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Real Words or Nonsense Words?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students to distinguish between real words and nonsense words. Real words are words that we use to communicate. Nonsense words are words that we do not use.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling and Vocabulary Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] Various activities to build spelling and vocabulary comprehension. Includes unscrambling spelling words, matching vocabulary with definition, context sentences, ABC order, word sort, and word order.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling Change Add Y
[Free Registration/Login Required] How words change when Y is added.