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Vocabulary Building
Use primary text documents to learn word roots. Learners listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence and highlight words they don't know. They compile these words and guess their meanings. They discuss roots, prefixes,...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs-Part I
Here is a lesson plan that gives learners a chance to practice using context clues. They read the story, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Students use different word strategies (base words, synonyms, antonyms) to decode and understand...
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Searching for Meanings Benath the Surface of the Poem
Students read "Soccer Until Dusk". As a class, they discuss the various settings and actions in the poem and discuss the life in Guatemala and compare it with the United States. To end the instructional activity, they complete a...
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Expressions and Meanings
In this expressions and meanings worksheet, students match expressions to their meanings. Students match 12 expressions to 12 meanings.
Intel
What Does This Graph Tell You?
Students choose natural phenomena to research. They design and conduct experiments or simulations. Students predict, gather, and analyze data. They graph the results using a spreadsheet software.
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Digger and the Gang
Students participate in an online puzzle story. They practice notetaking skills and using adjectives and adverbs. They write a Cinderella story from a thief's point of view using idiomatic phrases. They review other English skills in...
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Symbols and Meanings
In this advertising worksheet, students are presented with 7 pictures or slogans and provided a space to record the meanings of each.
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Vocabulary Review- Matching Words to Their Meanings
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students match 10 words in column A of a table with definitions in column B. They work with words such as complain, lonely, frankly, and quit.
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Coin Comparisons
Students analyze and compare symbols and their meanings on ancient Greek and contemporary coins.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
Other
Behind the Name
Site gives the etymology and history of first names. Have fun looking up yours! Names can be accessed alphabetically, by nationality, or through a search tool. Links to lots of other information on names and etymology.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Suffixes Ful and Able
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to understand that a suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that changes the meaning of that word. Practice using -full and -able.