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Your Dictionary: Teaching Confused and Unfamiliar Words

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This article provides tips for teaching confused and unfamiliar words to students. These include being familiar with the words, using pictures to visualize the words, and practicing.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Writing a Movie Summary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on teaching high school learners to write a movie summary that provides a plot summary without sharing too much of the storyline but includes the following: brevity, conflict, theme, tone, and persuades others to want...
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan on How to Teach Conjunctions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson focuses on teaching conjunctions including activities, links to conjunction lists and online resources, and lesson plan ideas.
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Your Dictionary: Lessons About Adjectives vs. Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site offers six fun lessons to help students learn the correct usage of adjectives and adverbs.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 8th Grade

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This article offers a list of words that 8th graders should know by sight and links to several online resources for teachers including Internet4Classrooms, Puzzlemaker, Tools for Educators, and Fun With Words.
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Your Dictionary: What Are Third Grade Lessons Using Picture Books?

For Teachers 3rd
This article suggests uses for picture books in 3rd-grade classes including for sequencing, imagery, to determine the main idea, to create their own picture books, to create the missing connection between picture and text, and to aid...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Plural Possessives

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This site focuses on teaching plural possessive nouns and pronouns including what they are and methods of teaching them including using flashcards, and plural possessive Bingo, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.
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Your Dictionary: 4th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This article focuses on the grammar of 4th grade including the beginning of more adult conversation, a grammar review from previous grades, more irregular verbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and improved sentence structure.
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Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Grammar

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This article focuses on the skills 2nd graders begin to learn including increased vocabulary, context clues, spelling patterns, tone and rhythm, punctuation, and language development.
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Your Dictionary: 3rd Grade Grammar

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This article focuses on the grammar and punctuation that third graders need to learn including the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, and prepositions), punctuation marks (question mark, exclamation points, and periods), and the...
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Your Dictionary: 5th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This article focuses on the grammar learned in the 5th grade including writing narrative paragraphs, homonyms, synonyms, and irregular plurals.
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Your Dictionary: 6th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This article focuses on grammar generally taught in 6th grade including more complicated reading material; roots, prefixes, and suffixes; and subjective and objective pronouns.
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Your Dictionary: 7th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This article focuses on 7th-grade grammar which requires having a greater understanding of the grammar learned previously and using the parts together. This includes understanding the parts of speech, pronouns, clauses, and punctuation;...
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Your Dictionary: 9th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on 9th-grade grammar including the expectation for good grammar skills in all subjects. Things like run-on sentences and fragments are no longer tolerated.
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Your Dictionary: Classroom Rebuses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article discusses the use of rebus (combination of pictures and words) puzzles and stories in the classroom; it also supplies a list of online sources for rebus puzzles and stories.
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Your Dictionary: Grammar Identify Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on identifying objects in sentences including direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Examples of each are provided.
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Your Dictionary: High School English Literary Terms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on a variety of key literary terms used in high school English including their definitions. These terms include flashback, genre, irony, parody, satire, setting, subplot, tone, and symbol.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson on Teaching Compound Words

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson focuses on teaching compound words and is specifically designed for second grade; however, it could be adjusted for other grades.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans on Writing Short Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on teacher preparation of lesson plans before attempting to teach students to write short stories. It includes questions to ask yourself, ideas for activities, and a sample lesson plan.
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Your Dictionary: Reflective Journal Writing Tips for Students

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on reflective journal writing including the benefits to students, ways to deal with writer's block, and tips for journal writing.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Essay Writing in Secondary Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site focuses on teaching essay writing to high school students including the basic five-paragaph essay, tips for teaching essay writing, and examples of guides.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 1st Grade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to first graders including Dolch sight words for 1st grade and strategies for teaching spelling such as syllabification, drawing symbols with words, matching words with pictures, and playing...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 2nd Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to 2nd graders including the Dolch sight words for 2nd grade, the number of spelling words per week, and links to online resources.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 3rd Grade

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 3rd grade spelling including Dolch sight words for 3rd grade and the weird spelling patterns that 3rd graders face such as the letter Y, diphthongs, double consonants, and homophones.