Curated OER
Subtracting Suffixes
Take it off! Take what off? Take off the suffixes to create new words! Learners build vocabulary and spelling skills as they remove the suffixes from 20 different words. This activity can help learners begin to recognize roots, compound...
Curated OER
The Ancient Art of Shadow Puppet Plays
Shadow puppetry has an ancient past, it is also a great way to build oral expression and reading fluency. Young thespians research folk tales, compare and contrast reality and fantasy, then create and perform a shadow puppet play based...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze a constructed response question. Students will read the question closely and use this planning tool to plan constructed responses. This graphic organizer is a...
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Reading Exercises Science
An interactive exercise for students to use while developing an understanding of how to read scientific informational texts. The text is presented one paragraph at a time and difficult vocabulary words are defined as footnotes. Then...
Other
English & Fun: Photocopiables Games
30 printable games, activities, and worksheets you can use to practice English. Includes themed activities -- the World Cup, Halloween, New School Year, Dinosaurs -- and activities related to specific skills like learning the alphabet,...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Test Yourself
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 30 secs] explaining how students can learn new vocabulary words by testing themselves over the words to discover what they know and what they need to know.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Prefixes
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Acquiring New Vocabulary
This instructional activity teaches elementary students new vocabulary terms through book discussion groups. Students use context clues, prior knowledge, and print and online resources for vocabulary understanding in their discussion.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...
Other
Canal Kids: Uniao Cultural (English for Portuguese L1s)
Interactive vocabulary lessons for Portugese-speaking English language learners who are building a basic English vocabulary related to objects found at school, occupations, food, toys, clothes, animals, and songs. By clicking on various...
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Canal Kids: Uniao Cultural (English for Portuguese L1s)
Interactive vocabulary lessons for Portugese-speaking English language learners who are building a basic English vocabulary related to objects found at school, occupations, food, toys, clothes, animals, and songs. By clicking on various...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Kitchen Utensils Vocabulary
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...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Home Appliances Vocabulary
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common appliances from the home. Student tries to match correct word with picture from drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score based on correct answers...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Food (La Comida)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Food vocabulary. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented - audio...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: House (La Casa)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Rooms of the house and furniture. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia) Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on family vocabulary. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce the material presented. Audio is...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Work (El Trabajo)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: jobs, ordinals, days, months, dates, verbs. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: opposites, colors, words for describing people. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)
Wonderful site for Spanish speaking ELL. Beginning level has instructions in Spanish and an excellent variety of activities focusing (in this section), on alphabet, numbers, time, classroom vocabulary, school subjects, titles. Auditory...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The Future: Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This lesson focuses on miscellaneous vocabulary. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce the material presented. Audio...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Weather: Vocabulary (El Tiempo)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: weather vocabulary, seasons. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented -...