Curated OER
Using a Dictionary - Vocabulary
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to help them answer the 5 multiple choice questions on the page.
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Using a Dictionary - Prefixes
Help your students add variety to their vocabulary with this dictionary activity, which includes five questions about prefixes (ir, pre, re, sub, post). Students will not only work with their dictionary reference skills, but learn the...
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Illustrated Dictionary
Young scholars make an illustrated dictionary of words they've used and learned in class. In this vocabulary lesson, students find words from their notes, discuss the words in a group, select the best words as a class, and complete an...
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Using a Dictionary- Definitions - Volume 5, #25
In this dictionary worksheet, learners use a dictionary to help answer 5 multiple choice questions about the meanings of words. Students are asked the meaning, synonym or antonym of a word in bold type.
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Vocabulary-- Using a Dictionary
In this vocabulary dictionary meanings worksheet, students read 7 questions that have a highlighted word. Students use a dictionary to find the meaning and answer the question using one of 4 choices.
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Using a Dictionary - Sounds
In this research skills learning exercise, students use a dictionary to answer the 4 questions on the learning exercise. All of the questions have to do with word sounds.
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Using a Dictionary - Sounds
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to answer the 4 questions on the worksheet. The questions have to do with word sounds.
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Learning About The Dictionary
Learners explore how to use the dictionary. They practice finding words in the dictionary. Students find the word that is between two listed words and they find the word that does not belong in between the two listed words.
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Sleepy, Sleepy- Dictionary Work with Words Related to Sleep
In this ESL dictionary use worksheet, students look up a list of word that are related to sleep such as drowsy, nap, siesta, and sleepwalking. They place the 8 words in the appropriate places in a cloze paragraph
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Undercover Meanings
Support young scholars with studying new vocabulary using this foldable resource. By cutting and folding the included template, learners can record definitions, examples, and a sentence for four different words.
Teach-nology
Root Words Activity
A study of prefixes and root words can help your learners with their word choice in writing. Participants review the meaning of 13 prefixes before adding them to root words and defining the new words.
Curated OER
Let's Discuss Current Events
Investigate articles from the daily news and share opinions with classmates. Using current events, learners view a news program without sound and predict what news is being discussed by analyzing the visuals. Then they read news articles...
EngageNY
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...
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Using Your Dictionary: Adverbs 2
In this adverbs practice worksheets, learners use their dictionary skills as they look up 10 adverbs and record the definition for each of them
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Using Your Dictionary: Adverbs 1
In this adverbs practice worksheets, students use their dictionary skills as they look up 10 adverbs and record the definition for each of them
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Fruits and Vegetables: Dictionary Activity
In this fruits and vegetables dictionary worksheet, students fill in "dictionary pages," using guide words on each page and a list of words given at the bottom of the page.
Haut Gap Middle School
Root Words
Scholars demonstrate their knowledge of root words aqua and aud, and develop vocabulary skills by completing of a chart, handout, and worksheet using creative thinking skills, a dictionary, and a thesaurus.
Curated OER
Test Your Vocabulary Skills
In this vocabulary worksheet, students answer 20 short answer questions based on the picture dictionary and their knowledge of vocabulary words.
Curated OER
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, related...
Lawrence Virtual School
Context Clues
Considering a lesson on using context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words? This packet includes a brief reading passage about strategies readers can use and 12 very different graphic organizers, including a template for a...
Newspaper in Education
Lesson 10: Studying Content-Specific Language
Stanchion, spar, spinnaker. Right wing, sweeper, hip check. Every subject has specialized vocabulary. Here’s a fun way to introduce your learners to this jargon. Provide class groups with newspapers and have them search pre-selected...
Curated OER
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...
McGraw Hill
Vocabulary Power
Augment your language arts units with a set of vocabulary worksheets. The packet is an excellent support to your vocabulary instruction that covers a variety of skills, including context clues, Greek and Latin roots, reference materials,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics include birthdays, family...