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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dictionary Details

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This clever lesson has students practice finding a variety of types of information in a dictionary by playing a "Dictionary Scavenger Hunt" game. Students must use the guide words at the top of a dictionary page, determine what part of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Continents Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write the correct name of the continent on each land mass. They locate Asia and outline the country of China and label it. They lightly color in the continents.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Name & Word Wall Activities, Building Blocks: Literacy, Letter Recognition,

For Teachers K
Students use the word wall to learn letters, their names, develop print awareness and many other literacy skills.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Looks Like Snow

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Students listen to the teacher read the book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow, and create vocabulary and graphic cards from the story.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Dictionary - Harvest Festival

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore healthy foods and dictionary organization. Students create a list of healthy foods. They construct their own food dictionary, with illustrations. Young scholars model how a dictionary page should be filled with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Techniques for Quoting Material

For Students 10th - 11th
In this writing worksheet, students read techniques for quoting material. Students read about how to correctly use quotations, textual references and footnotes, and a bibliography.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Flag Day Word Jumble

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online interactive Flag Day worksheet, students examine 16 holiday-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 16 sets of letters to match the terms in the word bank. This worksheet may also be printed...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Symbols of the U.S. word jumble

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this symbols of the U.S. learning exercise, students unscramble the words that represent symbols of the United States. Students unscramble 16 words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Continents

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate World Geography by researching the different continents. In this Asian Geography lesson, students discuss the continent of Pangaea and color a worksheet of the continents. Students locate China on the map worksheet...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How To Use the Internet To Make Student Glossaries

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use an internet dictionary to produce a glossary of words related to a particular subject area being studied. They choose the correct meaning of the word for their glossary, based on it's relationship to the subject matter being...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Your Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read a book and write down any words that they do not examine. They also look up the words in a dictionary and write down the definition and a sentence for each word.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Abra-kadabra-kazam /a//a//a/, POOF!

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover that each letter of the alphabet has a sound then detect the /a/ sound represented by the letter a. They pretend to be magicians and say, "Abra-kadabra-kazam! POOF!" emphasizing the /a/ sound and then repeat an /a/...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dig Into the Dictionary

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore their vocabulary by participating in a dictionary word find activity.  In this vocabulary lesson, 2nd graders locate words in a dictionary based on the beginning letter which must match the teacher's instructions....
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Alphabetize

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The word list is presented and you must put the words in alphabetical order. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Spelling and Vocabulary Activities

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Various activities to build spelling and vocabulary comprehension. Includes unscrambling spelling words, matching vocabulary with definition, context sentences, ABC order, word sort, and word order.
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Tic Tac Toe Spelling [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
For this PDF spelling activity, choose three activities "in a row" to complete for your weekly spelling assignments. These activities include creating a comic strip using at least seven of your spelling words, write your spelling words...
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Alphabetize

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Drag and drop each word into alphabetical order.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Alphabetize 2

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Drag and drop each word into alphabetical order.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Alphabetize 3

For Students 2nd - 4th
Drag and drop each word into alphabetical order.
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Activity
Other

Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabet Letters 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Great practice for beginners. Click on each letter (lower case only) in alphabetical order. The program does not allow the user to put letters in the wrong order, but the mistakes count against the final score.
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Activity
Other

Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Words 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice alphabetizing, or use as a quiz. Click on the words and put them in the correct order. You get a score at the end, and encouragement.
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Activity
Other

Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Words 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Play as a game or use as a quiz, put the words in alphabetical order.
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Activity
Other

Bradley's Online Interactive Activities: Alphabetical Words 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Put the words in alphabetical order and hear the cheers as you place each one correctly.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Library Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used in a library/resource center to illustrate alphabetical order and how books are arranged on the shelves in the library. It also discusses alphabetical order to help teach...