World Food Programme
Free Rice
This vocabulary and grammar site provides free quizzes. The site will donate grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme for each correct answer.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hemingway: The Man Versus the Image
Learn about Ernest Hemingway's public persona and how it differed from the actual life of the writer in these videos from the American Masters film Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea. Using video, text, and text-dependent discussion...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Bird in Hand Lesson Plan
This in-depth lesson, based on the 11-minute story "Bird in Hand" from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali, helps children use strategies, such as examining the parts of unfamiliar words to figure out their meaning.
University of California
Regents of the University of California: Using the Cognates Strategy
This strategy guide introduces an approach for making students aware of cognates (words that have a similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning across languages) in content-area texts. This guide includes an introductory section about...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Vocabulary: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context
A learning module that teaches students how to use context clues to understand new vocabulary words with six mini-lessons: Introduction, The Clues in Context, General/Inferential Context Clues, Definitions/Example Context Clues, Synonym...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
This lesson focuses on learning new vocabulary by using prefixes, suffixes, and roots. It includes a brief history of affixes and learning exercises.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding New Vocabulary Within Context
This lesson focuses on ways to understand new vocabulary words in context. It provides an introduction with examples, information about how our language changes and how words get into the dictionary, and how to look outside the word to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Vocabulary Words: Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can help students as they explore new vocabulary words. It offers a place for a dictionary definition, as well as a place to practice using the word in a sentence.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Antonyms and Synonyms Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students learn about synonyms and antonyms through physical activity. The teacher calls out a series of commands. First, the students perform the synonyms (the same as the movement called out) and then they go through the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Action Verbs Lesson Plan
In this lesson students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: A Splash of Mink Lesson Plan
In the animated 11-minute story "A Splash of Mink," from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, Molly and Trini must find a remedy after being sprayed by a mink. Despite getting advice from various sources about how to get rid of the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dot's Spot
Explore vocabulary words, the alphabet, and music alongside Del, Dot, and Dee through media, lesson plans, and graphic organizers.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo; Talking About Former Jobs and Future Careers
From Holt Rinehart Winston's, on-line Ven conmigo series, this is a fill-in-the blank reading comprehension and grammar exercise for talking about former jobs and goals, and talking about future career plans in Spanish.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plague Words and Phrases
"Avoid problems created by these words or phrases." Examples: And also, As to Whether, and lots more.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Compound Words
Check out this extensive website focused on compound words. Find out how they are used in writing. Don't miss out on this informative site.
InterLink Language Centers
Esl Resource Center: Vocabulary and Idioms
Several short lessons and pop quizzes for practicing English vocabulary and idioms.
British Council
Brirish Council: Learn English Kids: Word Games: Spring
Play this naming game with words associated with spring.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Esl English Vocabulary Lessons
A series of 19 videos focusing on English vocabulary lessons presented by ESL instructor Jennifer Lebedev.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn Spanish Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn new Spanish vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are ten levels of difficulty.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Possible Sentences
Possible Sentences is a pre-reading vocabulary strategy that activates students' prior knowledge about content area vocabulary and concepts.