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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a instructional activity in which learners learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The...

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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...

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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Discover how to use context clues to improve your reading skills. This resource features exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. L.9-10.4a, L.8.2.B Context/Meaning

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Arcademics

Arcademics: Extraordinary Elephants

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Determine which word is the synonym of the given word then choose it to feed the elephant.

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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students/ Homographs F Same Spelling Different Meaning

For Students 1st - 8th Standards

This online activity gives two definitions and asks what word, that begins with "F," fits both. Clicking the box gives the answer. There are twenty-three questions.

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Learning Farm

Learning Farm: Ccs: Time, Sequence, and Cause/effect

For Students 1st - 4th Standards

An automated lesson will engage student's learning how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. An introduction to the concept precedes a...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.3.5a: Distinguish Literal and Nonliteral Meanings of Words

For Students 3rd Standards

Links to 18 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.5a: Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).

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Education.com

Education.com: L.3.4.a Worksheets: Sentence Level Context as a Clue to Meaning

For Students 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.4.A: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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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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ICT Games

Ict Games: Pre Loaded Dictionary for Years 1 and 2

For Students K - 1st Standards

A resource that lists vocabulary words for guided writing.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Vocabulary: Words in Context [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which learners look for new vocabulary words and context clues to define them while reading an independent reading book. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

A lesson plan in which students identify unknown words within a text, identify their parts and syllables, and work to determine the meaning of each word. Materials are included.

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Utah Education Network

Uen: Vocabulary Web

For Teachers 3rd Standards

Third graders learn how to make a vocabulary word web.

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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: 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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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.

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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Language: Vocabulary Acquisition: Shades of Meaning: Verbs [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by acting them out with classmates in this fun verb game.

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Primary Resources

Primary Resources: To Order Words According to Shades of Meaning [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This PDF activity has students order lists of words with similar meanings from the weakest to the strongest in meaning, select words with strongest meaning to fill in the blanks, make a list of words that mean happy, and then use them to...

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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Unscramble

For Students 1st - 4th Standards

A game where students practice reading skills by listening to a sentence and then dropping words into the correct order to form that sentence. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.

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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences

For Students K - 1st Standards

Fill in the blank for each sentence by using knowledge of geometric shapes. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.

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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.

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