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Education.com

Education.com: L.3.2.g Worksheets: Consult Reference Materials to Check Spelling

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 15 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.2.G: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.3.4d: Use Glossaries or Dictionaries to Determine Meaning

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4d: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: English: Reading: Dictionaries and Indexes Quiz: Level One [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Quiz testing basic alphabetization and dictionary skills required for real-world application. Three levels of difficulty with answers provided.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Make It Meaningful

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort words based on the meanings of their affixes: before, one who, state or qualify of, and wrongly. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Meaningful Affixes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Four Word [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students match words according to their base words. Materials are included.
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Interactive
Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Common Core Standards Dictionaries and Glossaries

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
View a lesson on using dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meaning of words. Test your skills using Test Mode or Game Mode.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Building Word Castles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, students will explore unfamiliar words found in various picture books by Patricia Polacco. Students will discover the meanings of unfamiliar words by using a dictionary and find synonyms and antonyms with a thesaurus....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Technology in Teaching Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Elementary students, while working on their basal reader story for the week, will use various forms of technology to increase comprehension and other reading skills. (Other strategies may be substituted if some of the technology...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
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]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Reference Materials

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A dictionary is one of the most useful reference books anybody could ever use. Learn how to properly understand a dictionary's formatting and content! [0:46]
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Grocery List Spelling [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Student Writing Checklist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Excellent printable writing checklist that helps students proofread their pieces and pay attention to elements of strong writing.
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Handout
Other

Kids Wordsmyth: Free Online Dictionary

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is an interactive dictionary for kids. Students click on one of the 10 topics and find a list of related keywords; click on a keyword for its definition.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Synonym Sticks I

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Matching, concentration, and flashcard activities for practicing synonym skills. Word search reviews the vocabulary but does not connect to the synonym concept.
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Quia

Quia: Synonyms

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This site offers a matching squares activity in which students match pairs of synonyms. Java is required.
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Handout
Other

Your Dictionary: Commonly Misspelled Words [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A printable table of commonly misspelled words for intermediate readers.
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IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Students practice spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage skills by choosing the correctly written phrase for the underlined section in twenty-five sentences. Keep score as you go along and see your final score at the end of the...
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IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Language Arts Review 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Correct the underlined part of twenty-five sentences by choosing the correctly written phrase. The sentences provide practice for editing and proofreading skills such as punctuation, capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling. Score is...
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Handout
Cyberbee

Cyber Bee: Ready Reference

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site is a tool to help students hone their reference skills.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Reference Sources

For Teachers 2nd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews different reference sources including, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, almanacs, atlases, and periodicals.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Using the Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to teach dictionary skills to second and third grade students. It has a lot of practice opportunities built in and an Activote quiz. It was designed to use over several days.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Homophones

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A review of homophones.