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Handout
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Dictionary.com

For Students K - 1st Standards
Dictionary.Com is an online dictionary. It provides definitions, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech. It also provides a word of the day, word games, and much more.
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Other

Beacon Educator: Reading Educator: Dictionary Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Develop better vocabulary and dictionary skills while playing this fun dictionary game with learners in small groups. Click on the video link to watch the game being played in a classroom. L.9-10.4c References
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Website
Other

Tutorial World: Primary 3 English

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for third-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Weather / Whether

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site focuses on the commonly confused words weather and whether including definitions and examples with explanations. It also offers a link to practice exercises.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and...
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Activity
Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Dictionary Skills

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
How are your dictionary skills? Check out this site to learn how to improve your dictionary skills. This site features exercises grouped into three different levels.
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Handout
Other

The Internet Picture Dictionary: French

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is an easy to use French picture dictionary. Selections can be made by typing in the word you wish to look up or you can choose a category.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Synonyms and Antonyms and a Little Thesaurus

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This learning module provides assorted learning materials on synonyms and antonyms. It includes links to reference sheets and videos. Some worksheet and test links were not loading.
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Strategies for Identifying Genres

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before reading can...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

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

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson plan in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson plan utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes...
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

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

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students 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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Interactive
Arcademics

Arcademics: Word Frogs

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Determine the synonym, antonym, and homonym based upon the given word.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 361 370

For Students 3rd Standards
Read irregularly spelled grade 3 words by playing this online game.
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Handout
Other

Oxford Dictionaries: Do You Know Your Ibles From Your Ables?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for words ending in the suffixes -able and -ible.
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Website
Other

Tutorial World: Primary 4 English

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site is for teachers looking for worksheets for fourth-grade language arts students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension and revision.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: How to Solve Cryptograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides detailed tips on how to solve cryptograms such as looking for repeated words, solving the short words first, and looking for digraphs and common letters.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 10: Whose and Who's

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Test your understanding of the words "whose and "who's" by typing the word that best completes each of the twenty sentences. Immediate feedback on answers is provided and a percentage score is tallied throughout the quiz.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.3.3 B Worksheets: Use Dialogue and Descriptions

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 W.3.3B: Write Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.3.5b: Identify Real Life Connections Between Words and Their Use

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 6 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.5b: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
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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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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: 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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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.