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Study.com: Using Precise Language & Vocabulary in Informative Texts
This instructional activity focuses on using precise language in informative texts. It defines precise text and discusses how to use precise language. W.9-10.2d lang/voc, W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: How to Use Strategies to Teach Students to Access Complex Texts
In this short video, the strategies of summarizing, clarifying, and asking-answering questions are used. These instructional tools will help teachers show students how to access complex texts. [5:54] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.3.5b: Identify Real Life Connections Between Words and Their Use
Links to 6 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.5b: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
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Better Lesson: L.3.4d: Use Glossaries or Dictionaries to Determine Meaning
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4d: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
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Better Lesson: L.3.4b: Determine the Meaning When a Known Affix Is Added
Links to 5 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,...
Education.com
Education.com: L.3.4.c Worksheets: Use a Known Root Word as a Clue to Meaning
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 5 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.4.C: Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with...
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Better Lesson: W.4.2d: Use Precise Language and Vocabulary
Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2d: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Monsters
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 54 vocabulary words pertaining to monsters, creatures, or scary ideas. It also includes an extensive word list and lesson ideas on the same subject.
Education.com
Education.com: L.4.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 16 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.3.A: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas.
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Better Lesson: L.4.6: Acquire and Use Grade Appropriate Words and Phrases
Links to 10 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.4.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions,...
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Dynamic Learning Maps: Essential Element, Linkage Levels, and Mini Map L.6.5.b
This is a helpful tool for teachers to understand how to teach Standard L.6.5.b. It explains the concept, describes different levels of understanding that students may have, and provides a list of ways students can demonstrate they have...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Pre Loaded Dictionary for Years 1 and 2
A resource that lists vocabulary words for guided writing.
Starfall
Starfall: Picture Hunt: Y as Long E
Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Match: Short Vowel
Interactive concentration game with three levels. Matching short vowel words and pictures. vocabulary words: red, fan, bus, sun, hat, bag, jump, lamp, bell, duck, tent, drum, skunk, bench, dress, pants, shells, clock.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ug
Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ink
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ig
Create short IG words using picture cues. Drag the initial letter sound to spell each short I word. Match pictures to make words: pig, wig, big, dig.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Control R
There are three levels in this interactive word game. Match the initial and final sounds to create a word to name the picture. ER words: herd, fern; IR words: bird, girl; UR words: curl, surf.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 4 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with meals and vocabulary words that describe.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 17 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic verb tenses that are needed in beginning English.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 15 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic verb tenses that are needed in beginning English.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 1 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of ten nouns needed in Level 1 English.