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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This site offers lists of compound words (or teachers can import their own lists), student assistance to learn the words, and a spelling test to assess their learning. It also provides printable lists and worksheets.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Presidents' Day

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 36 vocabulary words on the topic of Presidents' Day. It also includes an extensive Vocabulary Word List for Presidents' Day (382 words) and ideas for President's Day...
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match Fry Words 921 930

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words in this audio matching game.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 901 910

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words by playing this online game.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word Fry Words 911 920

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Identify correct decoding of multisyllabic grade 4 and 5 words by playing this online game.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Reading Activity: Word Explorer

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students choose a category to see a list of related words and then choose a word they would like to explore. Includes pronunciations, definitions, pictures, and video demonstrations of each word.
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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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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Reading Activities and Games for Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This article focuses on developing vocabulary through reading activities and games. The more a person reads, the better their vocabulary; this article provides ideas for teachers and parents to promote more reading for fun.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

School and Office Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common items from school or office. Student tries to match correct word with picture from drop down menu. After 10 questions a score based on correct...
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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
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.4.2d: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2d: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
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Education.com

Education.com: W.4.2.d Worksheets: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 4 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.2.D: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or...
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Developing Academic Language: Got Words?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a research-based article concerning how to best teach academic vocabulary. Research finds that most teachers assign and mention vocabulary, but to be effective, instruction must be direct and meaningful. Recommendations for...
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Education.com

Education.com: L.4.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 16 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.3.A: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.4.6: Acquire and Use Grade Appropriate Words and Phrases

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 10 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.4.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...
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Lesson Plan
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 students look for new vocabulary words and context clues to define them while reading an independent reading book. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students match words according to their base words. Materials are included.
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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.
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Professional Doc
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Preview Vocabulary Words [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about previewing vocabulary words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the previewing of vocabulary, find research that supports the previewing of vocabulary, and find...
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Website
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Scrabble Word Finder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses using a Scrabble Word Finder. It focuses on the Your Dictionary Word Finder including explaining ways to use it and what is available through it.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Building Word Castles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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....