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Mc Graw Hill: Language: Vocabulary Acquisition: Shades of Meaning: Verbs [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by acting them out with classmates in this fun verb game.
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
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: Synonym Sticks I
Matching, concentration, and flashcard activities for practicing synonym skills. Word search reviews the vocabulary but does not connect to the synonym concept.
Quia
Quia: Homographs (Multiple Meaning Words)
This site is an interactive game for one or two players. Gives two definitions that fit the same word. Players have to guess and spell the target word for points.
Quia
Quia: Synonyms
This site offers a matching squares activity in which students match pairs of synonyms. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Super Synonyms Match Up
These matching games challenge student understanding synonyms and aid in expanding vocabulary.
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.
Other
Crossroads Education: Context Clues Chart
A student's quick-reference guide to using context clues while reading.
Room Recess
Room Recess: Skill: Context Clues
Play this online learning game by using context clues to click on the work that best completes each sentence.
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: Idioms From Context
In this interactive, "millionaire-style" game, students read passages with idioms in them. Then they will select the correct explanation for each idiom.
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.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Slap It Down
This lesson provides class practice learning the defintions for their vocabulary words. Young scholars are divided into two teams, each team is uses a fly swatter to slap the definition or the word whichever is not given.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Topic Vocabulary Reference
Links to information and lists of English words and phrases by category. Includes information on the difference between a dictionary and thesaurus, synonyms and antonyms, confusing words, figures of speech, eponyms, euphemisms, sayings,...
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Describing Weather
Lean twenty-two words to use when describing the weather by reading short passages and using context clues to define weather related vocabulary words.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Match It: Sentence Game: Plural Words
Practice vocabulary and reading comprehension skills while completing ten sentences by connecting each word with the sentence it completes.
TES Global
Blendspace: Idioms Resources
A twenty-three-part learning module including links to images and videos on various idioms.
TES Global
Blendspace: Similes and Metaphors
An eighteen-part learning module with links to videos, charts, and images to teach similes and metaphors.
TES Global
Blendspace: Hyperbole
Work through fifteen links to images, videos, and activities to learn about hyperbole.
TES Global
Blendspace: La Figurative Language Hyperbole
Work through six links to images, videos, and activities to learn about hyperbole.
TES Global
Blendspace: Gallagher Figurative Language
A learning module with thirty-one links to images, texts, websites, and videos to on figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, alliteration, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia.