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Learning Chocolate: Ell Listening
Click on a wide variety of colorful images to hear spoken words and phrases to help expand vocabulary. There is quite a variety of images available for all age groups.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop young scholars' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in to Learning: More Roots and Their Families
Part 2 of a series of interactive exercises concerning word roots and vocabulary skills. Site initially explains vocabulary and word roots, then allows students to complete interactive exercises.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Developing Academic Language: Got Words?
This is a research-based article concerning how to best teach academic vocabulary. Research finds that most teachers assign and mention vocabulary, but to be effective, instruction must be direct and meaningful. Recommendations for...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: General Listening Quiz: Enjoying the Zoo
Students listen to a recording about a visit to the zoo, then read and answer questions to check their oral comprehension. Includes followup ideas for discussion and research.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf] Interactive](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509142-e48c4496b4b14d6c35305bf7e641f188.jpg?1661800041 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf] Interactive")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Compound Words
Students will listen to the story Once There Was A Bull (frog) and identify the compound words in the story, then work with a partner to think of additional examples of compound words.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vocabulary Magic
Using the book Farmer Duck, this instructional activity will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Affixes: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces affixes, including suffixes and prefixes and lesser-known affixes. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Affixes."
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Match It: Sentence Game: Plural Words
Practice vocabulary and reading comprehension skills while completing ten sentences by connecting each word with the sentence it completes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Word Analysis: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of word analysis. The decoding skills of analyzing morphemes, including looking at prefixes, suffixes, and roots are included.
English Zone
English Zone: Main Page
This site lists links to an assortment of reading-related activities.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Family Relationships
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a question in a conversation and then choose the best response from the three choices given. Designed especially...
Randall Davis
Building Your Listening Vocabulary: Personality Types
This exercise designed for English language learners helps build their vocabularies. Students learn words associated with personality traits, such as selfishness, truthfulness, and cleverness, by completing this multiple-choice quiz.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Rocks and Minerals Find It! Quiz
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Calendars and Dates
This site has a self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on months, days, and years.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Names: Meeting New People
This site has a self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on correctly comprehending common English names.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Shopping and Prices
This self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners focuses on correctly comprehending prices. Students listen to an audio file of a dollar-and-cents price, then match it to its written form.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Making Friends
A self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on correctly comprehending and responding when making a new friend.