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Curated OER

Build Automaticity with Weekly Vocabulary Exercises

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Require a deeper understanding and application of your weekly vocabulary words by presenting in-class exercises that build automaticity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Analyzing Literature via Literature Circles

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Introduce literature circles with Roland Smith's novels. Your seventh graders will see the activity modeled as you read The Three Little Pigs together and apply the format to a Roland Smith novel of their choice. The lesson includes...
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Other

Introduce Vocabulary: My School's a Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A unique and flexible way to introduce vocabulary. The instructor introduces three new words to the class, then as the book My School's a Zoo by Stu Smith, is read, the students raise their hands when they hear the new words. The...
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Website
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
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Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Japanese English Vocab Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These online vocabulary exercises are created for Japanese speakers to study English. Extensive amount of exercises on various topics. They require JavaScript. Some do not require Japanese fonts.
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
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TESL Journal

Bilingual English Portuguese Vocabulary Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers vocabulary-building quizzes that can be used either by learners of English or by learners of Portuguese to test knowledge of the English and Portuguese words for colors, days, months, seasons, greetings, fruits,...
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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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Interactive
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)

English for Little Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...
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Interactive
Knowledge Share

Super Kids: Vocabulary Builders

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site has 6 creative games to improve your vocabulary.
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Interactive
Other

Tefl Interactive Esl Games: Matching Synonyms

For Students 3rd - 8th
There are ten levels of interactive synonym matching games on this site, starting at the elementary level, and going to more advanced level words to help English language learners practice their skills.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Feast of Homonyms (Matching Game)

For Students 9th - 10th
Play a game of match with homonyms. The game refreshes with new words at the completion of each round, and automatic scoring and self-checking provide instant feedback.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Feast of Homonyms (Word Search)

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of word search puzzles that refreshes with new words at the completion of each round. Automatic scoring and self-checking provide instant feedback.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Feast of Homonyms (Concentration Game)

For Students 9th - 10th
Fast-paced game of concentration that refreshes with new words at the completion of each round. Automatic scoring and self-checking provide instant feedback.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Vocabulary Games

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Begin building a better vocabulary through this comprehensive lesson plan with vocabulary games. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Personal Vocabulary Notebook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a simple but direct approach to building your vocabulary. Keeping a special notebook of new words can increase vocabulary, assist memorization, and encourage good study and organization skills. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
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Lesson Plan
Hopelink

Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues: Word Clues

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site offers a review of using context clues, along with three progressively more difficult practice exercises. Students match the highlighted word in the sentence with its meaning using a pull down box. In the third exercise, the...
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Easy Things for Beginners: Interesting Things for Esl

For Students 9th - 10th
Those familiar with ESL web sites will probably recognize this comprehensive site. On this page, the editors helpfully highlight a dozen or so word games and vocabularly activities geared to beginning ESL students and newcomers to the...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

School and Office Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common items from school or office. Student tries to match correct word with picture from drop down menu. After 10 questions a score based on correct...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Kitchen Utensils Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This vocabulary development tool for students features a matching exercise that shows pictures of common items of common kitchen utensils. Students match correct word with picture from a drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score can be...
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a basic explanation of adjectives & adverbs, with examples of each. This resource explains how to change adjectives into adverbs through interactive exercises (with hints and answers).
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Activity
University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Making Questions

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is targeted practice for question formulation; guided prompts ask the student to type question (yes-no or who, what, where, when). Students can then check the answer, ask for a hint, or see the answer.