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Your Dictionary: Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
This is a basic crossword puzzle dictionary with an explanation of how to use it. It also offers information and a comparison of three other online crossword dictionaries that have extra features: Wordsmyth, Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle...
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Your Dictionary: Scrabble Word Finder
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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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.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 8th Grade
This article offers a list of words that 8th graders should know by sight and links to several online resources for teachers including Internet4Classrooms, Puzzlemaker, Tools for Educators, and Fun With Words.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Root Words
This Skillswise site focuses on root words. Included are a video about why learning how to identify root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
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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.
Quia
Quia: Feast of Homonyms
Online flash cards let students test their knowledge of homonyms by flipping through a 40-card stack.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Vocabulary: Word Classes and Word Forms
Links to information on different word forms including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and "wh" question words.
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Vocab Test: Vocabulary Tests for 8th Graders
Fifteen vocabulary units are offered here. Each unit provides a list of words and sixteen learning and assessment options from learning definitions and traditional quizzes to crosswords and games. Teacher resources, e.g., answer keys and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Synonym Exercises
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a group of exercises that ask students to match words with their synonym. There are assessment questions included. The vocabulary level is appropriate for middle school students.
English Page
English Page: English Vocabulary: Advanced Vocabulary Lessons
This site gives people learning English with a list of useful vocabulary for situations such as getting an apartment or going to the grocery store. It includes a learning activity to practice the vocabulary.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Vocabulary: Finding New Ways to Say Something: Activity 1 of 3
Practice your vocabulary skills by choosing the stronger synonym from a word bank to complete each sentence.
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One Look Reverse Dictionary
OneLook is a dictionary for those times when you have a good idea what a word means, but you can't think of the word itself. You can also generate lists of related terms or possible answers for crossword clues. L.9-10.4c References,...
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Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 8th Grade
This article focuses on spelling in the 8th grade including applying standard English conventions to unfamiliar words, how to practice spelling words, and a link to 8th-grade sight words.
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Teaching Ideas: Using a Thesaurus
Use this worksheet activity to develop your thesaurus research skills.
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Student Handouts: Textbook Vocabulary Word Boxes
This is a graphic organizer for students to learn textbook vocabulary. They fill in the location of the word, the vocabulary word, text definition, their own definition, and an illustration. PDF Reader is needed and available on the website
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Oxford Dictionaries: Words Ending in Sion, Tion, and Cion
Learn the spelling rules involving when to use an "s," "t," or "c" when adding an "ion" suffix.