Curated OER
Let Me Be Your Guide - A Guided Tour of the Dictionary
Fifth graders, in teams, compete arranging vocabulary words into alphabetical order. They complete different worksheet activities to practice locating designated words in a dictionary.
Curated OER
Class Book
Third graders review how they can save their work on a computer once they are finished. As a class, they complete various assignments based on a rubric they are given and save them to a disk. Using the assignments, they combine all of...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 5th Grade
This article focuses on teaching spelling to 5th graders including resources for creating spelling lists, strategies for learning spelling words, more complex spelling rules, and links to several resources.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: How to Teach Spelling
A teaching resource with free downloads of PDF documents and graphic organizers along with guidelines and practice activities to use while teaching students to become better spellers.
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Other
Eps Lesson Pack: The Y Rule [Pdf]
This packet teaches the Y spelling rule, then gives plenty of examples and opportunities for students to practice and reinforce their learning.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: How to Teach Spelling
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides effective tools to help students with the spellings of new words. Several graphic organizers are attached to help students learn how to spell new words more efficiently.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Hyper Grammar: Spelling
Online grammar tutorial teaches the various spelling rules. L.9-10.2c Spelling
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Four Guidelines for Learning to Spell
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides tips that will help students learn how to spell assorted words.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Super Speller Student Practice Packet
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free spelling strategy sheets. Students will be able to refer to spelling reference sheets and follow the spelling tips.
TES Global
Blendspace: Superlatives and Comparatives With "Y"
A six-part learning module with links videos, web sites, and graphic organizers that teach about forming superlative and comparative forms of adjectives ending in the letter "y."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes
This Skillswise site focuses on prefixes and suffixes. Included are a video about why learning about these additions to root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
LD Online
Ld Online: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness
This site from the LD OnLine focuses on beginning reading and phonological awareness for students with learning disabilities. Check out the information presented in this informative article.