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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 4th Grade

For Teachers 4th Standards
This article focuses on 4th-grade spelling words which include the following: abbreviations and acronyms, suffixes, capitalization, and silent letters.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 7th Grade

For Teachers 7th Standards
This article focuses on 7th-grade spelling including its real-life applications, silent syllables, the different sounds of the letter A, and doubled consonants.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 6th Grade

For Teachers 6th Standards
This article focuses on spelling in the 6th grade including vowel-consonant spelling patterns, spelling study strategies, and links to word lists and spelling games.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 8th Grade

For Teachers 8th Standards
This article focuses on spelling in the 8th grade including applying standard English conventions to unfamiliar words, how to practice spelling words, and a link to 8th-grade sight words.
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Your Dictionary: Three Letter Words for 4 Year Olds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This article focuses on teaching early reading skills to 4 year-olds including Dolch sight words and other 3-letter words from the list provided, reading-readiness skills, and tips for teaching the alphabet.
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Your Dictionary: Verb Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This articles discusses the importance of teaching verbs and provides tips on creating verb lessons including the definition of verbs and verb tenses.
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Your Dictionary: 8th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This article discusses the grammar usually learned in the 8th grade including more concise and clear writing, speaking, and thinking; how to clearly combine ideas; more comma rules, and parallel structure.
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Your Dictionary: Poetry Lesson Plans Onomatopoeia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers a definition of onomatopoeia and two lesson plans with two activities each for teaching onomatopoeia to 9th graders.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 1st Grade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site focuses on resources and activities to teach Dolch sight words to 1st graders. These include a list of Dolch sight words for 1st graders and links to online resources for teacher resources, activities, interactive games, and...
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Your Dictionary: Kindergarten Opposites Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.
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Your Dictionary: Simple Action Words for Pre K Children

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
This site offers a list of simple action words suitable for Pre-K children and tips for teachers on how to teach them.
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Your Dictionary: 1st Grade Grammar

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses what grammar first graders need to know including how to count out syllables by clapping, what nouns and verbs are and the differences between them, and basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object).
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Determiners and Articles

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on teaching articles and determiners to native and non-native English speakers. It suggests beginning with articles (a, an, the), then moving to determiners (my, her, his, this, that, these, those); it also suggests...
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Your Dictionary: Adjective Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article explains several activities for teaching adjectives to elementary students. These include Describe the Silly Hat, Describe Your Drawing, Adjective of the Day, Hide-and-Seek with Adjectives, and Appetizing Adjectives.
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Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...
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Your Dictionary: Verb Activities

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This articles discusses the use of grammar games to help students understand verbs; it describes several verb activities and games including verb activities with a word wall, Power Verbs, Nicky Noun and Victor Verb, and Fortune Cookie...
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This article outlines a lesson for teaching comparative and superlative adjectives including defining and providing examples for each and a basic lesson plan for teaching them.
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Your Dictionary: Creative Writing Lesson Plan Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.
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Your Dictionary: Grade 5 Elementary Root Words

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This article focuses on teaching root words to 5th graders. It includes an explanation of root words, prefixes and suffixes, and word families. It also provides a root words worksheet with answer key.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 9th Grade

For Teachers 9th Standards
This article focuses on spelling in the ninth grade including acquiring specialized skill sets for life, learning spelling while reading, and the skills to drill: letter sounds, syllables, and rhythm. L.9-10.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
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Your Dictionary: Writing the One Minute Persuasive Speech

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on writing a one-minute persuasive speech force students to be clear and concise and to hone debate skills. From there it suggests the use of improvisation speeches.
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Your Dictionary: What Is a Vocabulary Context Clues Lesson Plan?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan uses Mad Libs to teach vocabulary using context clues to define unknown words.