Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Confused and Unfamiliar Words
This article provides tips for teaching confused and unfamiliar words to students. These include being familiar with the words, using pictures to visualize the words, and practicing.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Spell Check
Students are presented with four words. After choosing the incorrectly spelled word, students make corrections and check their answers. There is an option for more difficult words.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Gummy Worm Writing
This activity is designed to introduce descriptive writing. It can be used in grades 3-5. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words
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]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Some Frequently Confused Words
Some words in English can look and sound similar, but have entirely different meanings. Keep an eye and ear out for them; beware of commonly confused words. [0:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: Too to Two
Can you tell the difference between the words 'to,' two,' and 'too'?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: There Their They're
Do you know when to use 'there,' 'their,' and 'they're'?
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?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Frequently Confused Words: Affect/effect
Do you know when to use 'affect' and when to use 'effect'?
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Dolch Spelling Lists by Grade Level
This site provides lists of Dolch spelling lists by grade levels for K-8.
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice Exercises
Students engaging in these 14 word choice exercises will improve their word usage skills. Topics include spelling mistakes, sound alike words and word confusion. Select the correct word usage for each sentence.
Other
Ginger: Spelling Book: Confusing Words: Bi, Buy, By, Bye
Definitions and examples of the commonly confused homophones bi, buy, by, and bye.
Other
Write Words: Phrase Frequency Counter
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, choose how many words a phrase might have, and count how many occurrences of each phrase that length there are. A writer can avoid repetition using this tool to check their work.
Other
Write Words: Word Frequency Counter
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, and count how many times each word appears in the text. A good tool to use to avoid over-using words.
Other
Peer Editing Checklist [Pdf]
An in depth review process followed by a simple checklist to use for peer review of writing assignments.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Editing Checklist for Self and Peer Editing
Use this printable template to help students self-assess their own writing as well as provide meaningful feedback for their peers.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals and Possessives
Write a sentence containing each of the twenty-four plural and possessive words listed. When finished, create a PDF of the sentences to print and share.
Other
Your Dictionary: Commonly Misspelled Words [Pdf]
A printable table of commonly misspelled words for intermediate readers.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Fourth Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]
A series of three checklists for the first three nine-weeks, designed to help fourth graders focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: 3rd Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]
A series of four checklists, one for each nine weeks, designed to track third graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.