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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Building Meaning

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this tutorial, students will acquire tools from Handy Hal that will help them answer questions about unknown words in a text. Students will learn about word parts, picture clues, and context clues to help them with vocabulary...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Vocabulary Web

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn how to make a vocabulary word web.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Clifford's Class Trip by Norman Bridwell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
During this lesson students learn new vocabulary words through an enjoyable children's book. Students use knowledge of the new words to create a slideshow and original story.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Working With Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson focuses on enhancing students' vocabulary usage and spelling which, in turn, benefits reading. This lesson also includes keyboarding practice and computer usage.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Visual Dress Code

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Primarily designed for ESL young scholars who need visual representations to reinforce the meanings of words, this instructional activity encourages ESL and native speaking students to extend their vocabulary and conversational skills as...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Penguin Tale or Tail?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This interdisciplinary approach to science, language arts and technology will guide students into a study of real information about penguins and their habitat. They will learn to identify homophones and share what they learn using...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Crossword Puzzle Maker

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
ABCya! Crossword Puzzle Maker is a fun and easy way for children to create interactive crossword puzzles. Kids can input answers and clues using a simple form or by copying and pasting from a text document. Crossword Puzzles can be...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Use Precise Language and Domain Specific Vocabulary

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.
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Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Oral Language

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A collection of videos, articles for parents and teachers, webcasts for teachesr, and research briefs on helping children develop their oral language skills.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Word a Day

For Teachers K - 1st
Word a Day allows students to develop a bank of sight words that are meaningful to them. Each student picks words to add to his/her individual word bank. The teacher can specify particular categories or let the student choose any word....
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade K: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K Standards
Students gather information from a variety of texts- literary and informational- to describe the connection between people, events, ideas, and pieces of information. Students are introduced to life cycles by learning about how a plant...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Party Moose Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan, using the animated story "Party Moose" from the series Molly of Denali, shows the importance of paying attention to meaning while reading and using strategies, such as rereading, when something doesn't make sense. Molly...
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Mr. Nussbaum

Mr. Nussbaum: French and Indian War Comprehension

For Students 4th - 5th
This learning module includes a nonfiction reading passage about the French and Indian War followed by a multiple choice self-assessment which gives students immediate feedback.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Homophone Bingo!

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Students match homophones by playing a bingo-type game.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dr. Seuss Is on the Loose [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The rhythmic and melodic elements of Theodor Geisel's children's literature provide many opportunities for knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, and creative expression and communication in music. Students work with two...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.
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Professional Doc
Axelson Academy

Axelson Academy: Asking and Answering Questions About Unknown Vocabulary

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Ecosystems in Action [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this lesson, 4th graders explore animals and plants that inhabit ecosystems by using movement to deepen the retention of vocabulary. After reviewing the ecosystem players, students will play a call and response game by responding with...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word O Matic

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Students make words, including those with variant correspondences, by using letter cards.
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Article
TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Ten Games for Recycling Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
10 classroom activities that help students practice (recycle, reuse, review) vocabulary they've previously learned. Includes variations of well-known games, e.g., Pictionary, Taboo, Bingo, Outburst, and others. Instructions are provided...
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Activity
British Council

Learn English Kids: Mythological Flash Cards [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Printable flash cards including illustrations and terms of mythological creatures.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is...