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Grocery Store Choices: Vocabulary Skills
In this online interactive vocabulary skills activity, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding grocery store-related vocabulary. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Aerospace Industry: Vocabulary Skills
In this online interactive vocabulary skills instructional activity, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding words related to the aerospace industry. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Humor: Vocabulary Skills
In this online interactive vocabulary skills learning exercise, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding humor-related vocabulary. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Telecommunications: Vocabulary Skills
For this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding telecommunications vocabulary. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: What Can I Buy?
In this ESL vocabulary skills activity, students list three things they would be able to purchase at each location given. If the location is not a place to purchase anything, students write a sentence telling what is done there.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills: What Can I Buy?
In this ESL vocabulary skills activity, students write at least three things they can buy at each given location. If they cannot purchase anything, they compose a sentence telling what is done there.
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Vocabulary Toss
Young scholars play a vocabulary game. When they identify the correct work-wall word, they earn a point and a chance to double his or her point by shooting a basket. This game is designed to reinforce vocabulary skills by providing a fun...
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Vocab Squares
Creatively develop and reinforce new vocabulary from the book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, using these vocabulary squares. Each square is divided into four quadrants asking scholars to input the word, a...
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Short Story Vocabulary: Matching
Looking for a vocabulary list and exercise? Then this resource might be for you! Consisting of 39 words, this activity has learners match each word with its definition. Answers are provided.
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Homonyms 2
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, learners read 10 sentences and fill in the blanks in each sentence with the appropriate homonyms.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Dictionary Cube
Young scholars investigate new vocabulary words with a fun, collaborative activity. Given a deck of word cards, pairs of students flip over one at a time and independently look up the term in a dictionary. They then take turns rolling a...
EngageNY
Continued Close Reading of Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle: Text-Dependent Questions and Vivid Words and Phrases
In the third activity from this unit based on the book Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle, learners focus on using specific details from the text-to-answer questions about the habitat of bullfrogs. While reading the text, young...
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Study Guide for Where the Red Fern Grows
One of the best fourth grade books of all time is Where the Red Fern Grows. Provide your class with interesting background on the book and the author as well as worksheets for every five chapters of the novel. The first part of the guide...
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Better English Lessons: Vocabulary Skills
For this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences. Answers are scored immediately.
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Better English Lessons: Vocabulary Skills 2
In this online interactive English skills instructional activity, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences. Answers are scored immediately.
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Understanding and Using Suffixes to Expand Vocabulary
After a review of what suffixes are and how they are used, middle schoolers utilize a worksheet that is embedded in the plan to work in pairs to strengthen their understanding and skills in using these very important parts of our...
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Understanding and Using Root Words to Expand Vocabulary
Middle schoolers engage in a lesson plan which reminds them that root words indicate the base meaning of a word, and that those roots are found in many different words that have similar meanings. Pairs of pupils use construction paper...
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Using Word Maps to Expand Vocabulary
Looking for a good lesson on dictionary and word definition skills? The lesson presented here is for you! In it, learners utilize a worksheet, embedded in the plan, to record a word's definition(s), etymology, multiple meanings,...
Maine Content Literacy Project
The Process of Reading vocabulary, literary elements
Cover Freytag's Triangle and examine Anton Chekhov's "The Bet" in this third lesson plan in a series of fourteen based around short stories. Learners take a quiz and discuss Freytag's triangle. They apply the triangle to "The Bet" and...
Road to Grammar
Globalization
How familiar are your pupils with globalization? Hold a discussion on that topic using the questions and viewpoints provided here. Learners can study the vocabulary and read the points of view in order to prepare for the final talk.
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Salinger and the Vocabulary of the Vernacular
Writers explore vocabulary and expressions used in the English language. They use visual word maps to become aware of the different uses of words which will allow them to more readily interpret texts. Then they listen to/read excerpts...
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Bud, Not Buddy: List-Group-Label Vocabulary Strategy
Readers of Bud, Not Buddy demonstrate their knowledge of the Great Depression with a list, group, label vocabulary strategy. Included are complete directions for the activity that will also introduce class members to the new vocabulary...
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Citing Evidence and Building Vocabulary: “The Exterminator”
It is an out-of-body experience. Scholars take a look at the sidebars outside the body of the text in The Exterminator. They discuss the purpose of this type of text feature and work to determine the gist. Learners write unfamiliar...
Scholastic
Pre-Reading Vocabulary Activities Using "The Gift of the Magi"
The rich language of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" is only appreciable if you understand the words. A short lesson reviews 13 words from the story and prompts class members to apply each word and its definition to other situations.