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English Worksheets Land: Sorting Through Horrifying and Size Adjectives [Pdf]
Learners learn about the differences among words with similar meanings by cutting them out and pasting them in order from most to least on a graphic organizer.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: That's Greek
[Free Registration/Login Required] Did you know that at least half of the words in the English language are derived from Greek and Latin roots? Students use these roots to grasp meaning of words before looking them up in the dictionary....
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Sorting Through Horrifying and Size Adjectives [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences among adjectives with similar meanings by placing them in order from least to most on a graphic organizer.
Quia
Quia: Conjunction Itis Popup
This Homonym activity has students select the correct word form from a drop down menu to fill in the blank in a sentence.
Education.com
Education.com: L.4.5.c Worksheets: Show Understanding With Synonyms and Antonyms
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 24 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.5.C: Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites...
Read Works
Read Works: A Community of People
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the meaning of the word "community." A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
Read Works
Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Read Works
Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which learners learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
University of California
Regents of the University of California: Using the Cognates Strategy
This strategy guide introduces an approach for making students aware of cognates (words that have a similar spelling, pronunciation, and meaning across languages) in content-area texts. This guide includes an introductory section about...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Random Grouping Techniques
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a strategy for cooperative learning groups. Students will be divided by the following methods: students' similarities and differences, genres, and random means.
Quia
Quia: Synonyms
This site offers a matching squares activity in which students match pairs of synonyms. Java is required.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Suffixes
Interactive quizzes to help develop skill using suffixes in vocabulary. After a short introductory slide show, students are asked to identify the meaning of words in context that use similar suffixes. Next, students fill in the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on cognates, words from different languages that have similar spellings, pronunciations, and meanings. It shows ways that people who are in foreign countries can function by finding similar signs and words.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Minilesson
Interesting lesson plan which stresses the importance of connotation in writing by examining car names. Students participate in an interactive lesson plan in which they learn the value of connotation and begin to master the technique.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: How to Use a Thesaurus
A good overview of what a thesaurus is and how best to use one. Also includes the difference between the two forms of thesauri and explains how to choose the correct synonym to use. L.9-10.4c References
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Malapropism
This is a glossary entry for the term "Malapropism" including definitions from two separate sources.