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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Quick and Easy Word Study Routine [Pdf]
When older students struggle with decoding difficult words, the word study routine described in this slide presentation can teach them to chunk bigger words into smaller parts to learn pronunciation skills.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Occupations Find It! Quiz
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to search for the occupations described in a series of clues. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and vocabulary building, would work well with...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word: Middle School Analogies
Complete each of the ten analogies by choosing the word that matches the relationship between the first two words.
Other
Word Info: Experience the Wonder of Words: Random Quiz
This is a randomly generated vocabulary quiz; given the word, the student selects the correct synonym. Immediate feedback is given including what percent of other people taking the quiz answered that question correctly. Links to other...
Other
Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
Quia
Quia: Analogies Jeopardy
A Jeopardy-style game to play while learning to identify word relationships with categories including Family, Places, Actions, Time, and Opposites. Students complete each question by typing the correct word to complete each analogy. The...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Play Match It Sentences Games
Complete ten analogy sentences by choosing the word that matches the relationship in each sentence.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: How to Babysit an Orangutan
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the story, How to Baby-sit and Orangutan. Focus on the spelling words, vocabulary, some geography of the location of orangutans. This is a fun flipchart that your students are...
Other
Lil' Fingers Storybooks: Read and Listen: Penguin Party
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated read-along/listen-along story about penguins having a party. Delightful illustrations aid comprehension.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent Schools: Six Steps to Effective Vocabulary Instruction [Pdf]
Help students build vocabulary by following these six steps based on a book Building Background Knowledge by Robert Marzao. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
US Department of Education
U.s. Dept. Of Education: Childhood: Teaching Approaches: Vocabulary Instruction
How do you teach vocabulary instruction in your classroom? This site offers some suggestions to accomplish this mighty task.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Sports/hobbies
Great tool from Ingles Mundial for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Sports and Hobbies. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material...
Starfall
Starfall: Label the Magician
These games use the magic theme to teach young readers vocabulary. It offers four games: click on stars to change colors of the magician's clothes, labeling his clothes by clicking and dragging, picking up the wand and clicking on...
Other
Student Handouts: Textbook Vocabulary Word Boxes
This is a graphic organizer for students to learn textbook vocabulary. They fill in the location of the word, the vocabulary word, text definition, their own definition, and an illustration. PDF Reader is needed and available on the website
Other
Intensive Vocab: Vocabulary Learning Quiz 1
This vocabulary quiz uses a list of 100 core words; given the word, students select its synonym. It also offers links to 18 other vocabulary quizzes including 2 for SAT prep and 2 for GRE prep. Java is required.