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Your Dictionary: Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
This is a basic crossword puzzle dictionary with an explanation of how to use it. It also offers information and a comparison of three other online crossword dictionaries that have extra features: Wordsmyth, Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building Word Castles
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....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Technology in Teaching Reading
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: Here Hear
Can you identify the difference between the words 'here' and 'hear'?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: Assorted
Can you identify when to correctly use these words that often get confused with other words?
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Commonly Confused Words: Then and Than
This entry explains the difference in meaning and usage of the words "then" and "than," gives examples of each, and provides a link to a page of practice exercises.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: To Order Words According to Shades of Meaning [Pdf]
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...
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.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Unscramble
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.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 2
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 3
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Editing
Now that you written enough drafts to be satisfied with the content and ideas of your story, you are ready to check spelling. You might also like to make sure you have any historical information correct, check other facts, or consult a...
Better English Lessons
Pearson and Caroline Brown: Better English Lessons: There There
Fill in the blanks in twenty sentences by choosing the correct spelling of there, their, or they're according to the context of each sentence. Answers are marked right or wrong with each choice, and a total percentage score is tallied...
Other
Kids Wordsmyth: Free Online Dictionary
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.
Quia
Quia: Context Clues
Read each sentence and use context clues to choose the meaning of the bolded word in this ten-question quiz.
Quia
Quia: Context Clues Millionaire Game
Read each sentence and use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word in this Rags to Riches style game.
Quia
Quia: Simply Synonyms
Matching, Concentration, and flashcards with synonym practice for primary grades.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Magazine Hunt
In this lesson, young scholars find and cut out magazine pictures that show the definition of their vocabulary words and make a collage with them.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word of the Day
Links to an idiom of the day, phrasal verb of the day, slang of the day, and saying of the day along with a sign up to have these sent via email each day.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Grammar Vocabulary
A glossary of twenty-three common grammar terms; a link to a vocabulary quiz over usage is provided. L.11-12.1b Usage issues
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Types of Fruit
Put the letters in the correct order to spell the type of fruit that matches each picture.