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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.

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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Possible Sentences

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Possible Sentences is a pre-reading vocabulary strategy that activates students' prior knowledge about content area vocabulary and concepts.

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Ad lit.org: The Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Effective vocabulary instruction begins with diverse opportunities for word learning: wide reading, high-quality oral language, word consciousness, explicit instruction of specific words, and independent word-learning strategies. This...

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Ad lit.org: Questions About Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This article answers four common questions teachers have about vocabulary instruction, including what words to teach and how well students should know vocabulary words.

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Word Splash Sentences [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

In this PDF comparison/contrast lesson plan, students learn a word splash writing activity which asks students to craft meaningful sentences that utilize content vocabulary words. Students-alone or in groups-examine a collection of...

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Writing Fix: Details and Vocabulary: Using Content Based Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

In this lesson plan, students will write a descriptive paragraph regarding an animal and its habitat, or a character in a particular setting. Great cross-curricular usage of vocabulary.

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Literacy Education Online: How to Use a Thesaurus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A good overview of what a thesaurus is and how best to use one. Also includes the difference between the two forms of thesauri and explains how to choose the correct synonym to use. L.9-10.4c References

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English for Everyone

Englishfor Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.

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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Appropriate Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This page focuses on the choice of vocabulary in a paper: Is it clear and appropriate for the audience? Does the vocabulary fit the subject matter? W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Abc Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Six 50-minute lessons build vocabulary through the content areas by making an ABC book. It can become a classroom resource. Links include a non-fiction book list, checklist, word list, rubric, and a storyboard chart. There is also a link...

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Read Write Think: Using a Word Journal to Create a Dictionary

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

This lesson enables students to track unfamiliar words as they read, link these words to their background knowledge, create new sentences for their words, and develop a final project that displays their new vocabulary. Great resource for...

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Read Write Think: Vocabulary Self Collection Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to compose their own vocabulary lists by selecting words that are unfamiliar to them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

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Quia

Quia: What's My Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

This Concentration-style game asks students to match root words with their meanings while remembering the location of the covered pairs of words. Java is required.

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