Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word O Matic
Students make words, including those with variant correspondences, by using letter cards.
S.E. Schlosser
American Folklore: Arkansas Folklore
Read a brief folktale, myth, or legend from the state of Arkansas.
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American Folklore: Connecticut Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Connecticut.
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American Folklore: Hawaii Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths and legends from the state of Hawaii.
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American Folklore: Wyoming Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths and legends from the state of Wyoming.
S.E. Schlosser
American Folklore: Vermont Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Vermont.
S.E. Schlosser
American Folklore: Rhode Island Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, and legends from the state of Rhode Island.
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American Folklore: New Hampshire Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of New Hampshire.
S.E. Schlosser
American Folklore: Missouri Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of Missouri.
S.E. Schlosser
American Folklore: Mississippi Folklore
Read brief folktales, myths, or legends from the state of Mississippi.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition: Use Context Clues
This learning module focuses on using context clues to understand unknown words including definitions, examples, restatements, cause and effect/relationships, and comparisons. It provides examples with explanations and a practice...
Other
Frog Fables and Parables
All these fables feature frogs as their main characters. Like all fables, they each have a message about life.
Other
Englishlinx: Interjections Worksheet (Circling Part 1) [Pdf]
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
Other
Grammar book.com: Finding Nouns, Verbs, and Subjects
Notes and examples of nouns, verbs, and identifying subjects within a 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: Understanding Idioms
This lesson focuses on idioms including illustrating the literal meanings and explaining the figurative meanings.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Parts of Speech
An explanation of the parts of speech along with links to a parts of speech table, parts of speech examples, words with more than one job, and a parts of speech quiz.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Words With More Than One Job
An explanation and examples of how some words can function as different parts of speech in different sentences.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Conjunctions: Coordinating Conjunctions
An explanation of coordinating conjunctions with examples and example sentence. A chart with the FANBOYS acronym for remembering coordinating conjunctions is also provided.
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,...
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.