Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension
Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Contrasting Statements
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use contrasting statements within a sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Appositives
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use information within appositives to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Word Seek
In this lesson plan, 3rd through 5th grade students create word searches on grid paper using their spelling words; then they pass their word search to a classmate to solve it.
Other
Jefferson County School District: What Possessed You
Designed for 3rd graders, this Internet viewable slide show from Jefferson County School District introduces the rules for forming possessives and provides guided practice.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Forest Animal Vocabulary Printout
This site has printout drawings of half a dozen animals (bear, deer, worm etc.) and some related parts (claw, antlers). Provides a fill-in-the-blank format. Can also be printed with labels already filled in. Uses answers as a word bank....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading to Learn Academy, Grade 5 Additional Resources
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
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: Slap It Down
This lesson provides class practice learning the defintions for their vocabulary words. Young scholars are divided into two teams, each team is uses a fly swatter to slap the definition or the word whichever is not given.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Nonfiction Pyramid
A printable pyramid for use with nonfiction texts while students identify the main ideas and supporting details within a text. Students also determine author's purpose and key vocabulary words. Directions on how to use this type of...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Touch and Feel Box
Students will identify objects through their sense of touch and increase vocabulary skills by using describing words. Lesson plan for K-2nd grades.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: True or False
For this lesson students research their new vocabulary words in small groups and determine the true definition of the word and two false defintions that are believable. Then the class comes together and each group tries to stump the...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word? Sentences
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students must match each word to a sentence to complete its meaning. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Missing Letter
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. A letter is removed from each word and students must put it back. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Speedy Speller
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Listen as words are read to you and try to type them as fast as you can. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
abcteach
Abcteach: Information Book Report Form [Pdf]
Great printable form to help students write an informational book report. Includes space for new vocabulary words learned and other information retained from the work. Requires Adobe Reader.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Grocery List Spelling [Pdf]
This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Tic Tac Toe Spelling [Pdf]
For this PDF spelling activity, choose three activities "in a row" to complete for your weekly spelling assignments. These activities include creating a comic strip using at least seven of your spelling words, write your spelling words...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Suffixes
Interactive quizzes to help develop skill using suffixes in vocabulary. After a short introductory slide show, students are asked to identify the meaning of words in context that use similar suffixes. Next, students fill in the...
TES Global
Tes: Time Connectives/sentence Openers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource is a collection of transition words and phrases that deal with time. Each transition word and phrase includes a picture to illustrate.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is Plagiarism?
In this lesson, young scholars write summaries of researched information in their own words and quote text accurately.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Herbie and Annabelle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the comprehension skill of cause and effect has web links to practice cause and effect, uses a word web to build background knowledge before reading the selection story and it...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain:translator Alligator
Find a series of vocabulary games that use a combination of English and Spanish to teach basic vocabulary.