Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards Dictionaries and Glossaries
View a lesson on using dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meaning of words. Test your skills using Test Mode or Game Mode.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words
This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Power of the Presentation
Students will research an endangered African animal using resources from the Alabama Virtual Library and other Internet sites, and then design and present a persuasive and informative digital slideshow presentation on the animal and how...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Vivid Adjectives
This upper elementary lesson focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Students will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.
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: Let's Write a Cinquain
During this lesson, third grade students will navigate the Internet to learn about cinquains. They will use their new knowledge to create their own cinquains while learning important word processing skills.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What a Pest
Students are asked to identify issues related to integrated pest management and how they affect the environment.
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...
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Counting Endangered Animals [Pdf]
This FYI for Kids (Volume 5, Issue 2) article focuses on counting endangered animals including how they count them and why. It uses two examples of the use of modern technology to count endangered animals: panthers and humpback whales.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Where Plants and Animals Live
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining habitats where plants and animals live. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Lie or Lay and Sit or Set
This lesson focuses on the correct usage of the words Lie or Lay and Sit or Set and an easy mnemonic technique to help them remember when to use each.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Prefixes Roots
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use their knowledge of prefixes to generate new words from root words, especially antonyms.
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Class Flow: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Putting the Pieces Together
[Free Registration/Login Required] Putting word parts together, students understand and acquire new vocabulary to use in reading and writing. This flipchart uses several self-checking techniques that will engage students to build and...
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Class Flow: Questions and Statements
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify questions and statements (without the punctuation cue). They will also practice changing a question into a statement.
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Class Flow: Using the Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to teach dictionary skills to second and third grade students. It has a lot of practice opportunities built in and an Activote quiz. It was designed to use over several days.
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Class Flow: Vocabulary Seven Weeks on an Iceberg
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be able to match vocabulary words to their correct meanings after doing the activities in the flipcharts.
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Class Flow: Word Order
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipcharts helps students to understand the significance of word order; e.g. some re-orderings destroy meaning, some make sense but change meaning, sentences can be re-ordered to retain meaning...
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Class Flow: Antonym
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses antonyms and provides multiple activities for students to increase their understanding. It also utilizes Activotes for formative assessment.
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Class Flow: Compound Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is intended for grade 3, but can be used with grades 1,2, and 4. Students are introduced to compound words and have numerous opportunities for interactive practice. This flipchart also...
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Class Flow: Decoding Long Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students learn how to decode unknown words quickly and accurately. Three strategies are introduced to help in this process and Activotes are utilized for practice.
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Class Flow: How to Use a Thesaurus
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will review how to use a thesaurus. Uses links to an online web thesaurus to look up various words. Great starting point.
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Class Flow: Is That a Fact?
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will be introduced to concept of fact and opinion. It also contains an activating activity, teacher-directed instruction, key vocabulary, guided practice, independent...
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Class Flow: Little Grunt and the Big Egg
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the Harcourt Series, Little Grunt and the Big Egg. There are excellent vocabulary activities, spelling practice, and Language arts skills to practice.