Education Development Center
Tv411: Finding New Ways to Say Something
Use the activities on this site to review an understanding of synonyms and practice alphabetizing.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Logic in Argumentative Writing
An explanation and examples of several different types of logic that can be used in argumentative writing.
Other
Puzz.com's 1001 Best Puzzles: Brain Training Games: Analogies
These four self-scoring analogy tests include a number of open ended analogies to challenge your logic skills.
Other
Thesaurus.com: Homepage
To use the thesaurus at Thesaurus.com, simply type a word in the gold search box at the top of the page and click the 'Search' button. A list of synonyms and antonyms will be returned.
Vocabulary.com
Latin Root "Sub" Words
This site contains a list of 10 words that contain "sub", a prefix that means "under" or "below", in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings of these words.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students/ Homographs F Same Spelling Different Meaning
This online activity gives two definitions and asks what word, that begins with "F," fits both. Clicking the box gives the answer. There are twenty-three questions.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Horrid Homonyms
This site features a lesson plan for homonyms. Young scholars and teachers will benefit in their speech and writing skills after tackling this activity.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Homophones
Engage in this fun activity to learn all about homophones, which are words that sound alike but that are spelled differently and have different meanings.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesaurus
Learn about different reference materials such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri to help you learn meanings of words, pronunciation, or parts of speech. View a short lesson then practice using Game Mode or Test Mode.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.
Grammar Tips
Learn the Difference Between "Imply" and "Infer"
This article explains the difference between these commonly confused words.
McGraw Hill
Read: Does Technology Make Us Lazy?
Compare these two passages for some interesting ideas about how technology affects our lives. The questions that follow ask you to identify the main idea from either direct statement or inference.
Other
Pb Works: Great Source: Word Choice: The Right Shade of Meaning [Pdf]
This PDF unit is complete with a variety of worksheets providing students practive with choosing the right shade of meaning of synonyms.
Other
Polynesian University: Academic Writer: Analogy
Describes different writing strategies to be used with analogies to help get a point across. Gives three good examples.
Other
Spelling police.com: Analogy
Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of analogy.
Quia
Quia: Synonym Hangman
This hangman game provides synonyms for the hidden word and the correct number of letters in the word. Students guess letters and until they think they know the answer, and then they type in the answer. If you don't guess it before your...
Quia
Quia: Feast of Homonyms
Online flash cards let students test their knowledge of homonyms by flipping through a 40-card stack.
Quia
Quia: Super Synonyms Rhyme Time
At this site from Quia, a challenging rhyme and synonym game can be played by one or two players. All answers rhyme and are synonymous with the clues.
Quia
Quia: Prefixes (Matching Game)
Match common prefixes to their meanings in this online matching game.
Quia
Quia: Vocab/word Knowledge: Awesome Analogies!
A one or two-player Jeopardy style game to play while learning to identify word relationships. Students complete each questions by typing the correct word to complete each analogy. The game can be played alone or with an opponent.
Quia
Quia: Who Wants to Be an Analogy Word Master?
An interactive game where students read a pair of words and then choose another pair of words that show the same relationship. Students can complete fifteen analogies in order to win the game, and three hints are available if needed. If...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word: Middle School Analogies
Complete each of the ten analogies by choosing the word that matches the relationship between the first two words.
Quia
Quia: Connotation and Denotation
Read a sentence and determine which word carries the most positive or negative connotation to fill in the blanks in this 18-question quiz.