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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 1st Grade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to first graders including Dolch sight words for 1st grade and strategies for teaching spelling such as syllabification, drawing symbols with words, matching words with pictures, and playing...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 2nd Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to 2nd graders including the Dolch sight words for 2nd grade, the number of spelling words per week, and links to online resources.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 3rd Grade

For Teachers 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 3rd grade spelling including Dolch sight words for 3rd grade and the weird spelling patterns that 3rd graders face such as the letter Y, diphthongs, double consonants, and homophones.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 4th Grade

For Teachers 4th Standards
This article focuses on 4th-grade spelling words which include the following: abbreviations and acronyms, suffixes, capitalization, and silent letters.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 7th Grade

For Teachers 7th Standards
This article focuses on 7th-grade spelling including its real-life applications, silent syllables, the different sounds of the letter A, and doubled consonants.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 6th Grade

For Teachers 6th Standards
This article focuses on spelling in the 6th grade including vowel-consonant spelling patterns, spelling study strategies, and links to word lists and spelling games.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 8th Grade

For Teachers 8th Standards
This article focuses on spelling in the 8th grade including applying standard English conventions to unfamiliar words, how to practice spelling words, and a link to 8th-grade sight words.
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Your Dictionary: Three Letter Words for 4 Year Olds

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This article focuses on teaching early reading skills to 4 year-olds including Dolch sight words and other 3-letter words from the list provided, reading-readiness skills, and tips for teaching the alphabet.
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Your Dictionary: Verb Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This articles discusses the importance of teaching verbs and provides tips on creating verb lessons including the definition of verbs and verb tenses.
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Your Dictionary: Interjections Worksheet

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
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Your Dictionary: 8th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This article discusses the grammar usually learned in the 8th grade including more concise and clear writing, speaking, and thinking; how to clearly combine ideas; more comma rules, and parallel structure.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Kids About Reflective Writing

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This site offers ideas to encourage children to practice reflective writing and tips for teachers to teach it.
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Your Dictionary: Using Reflective Writing in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses the use of reflective writing in class including the uses such as summarize what was learned, writing about what they read, and keeping a reflective journal and the benefits of reflective writing.
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Your Dictionary: Poetry Lesson Plans Onomatopoeia

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers a definition of onomatopoeia and two lesson plans with two activities each for teaching onomatopoeia to 9th graders.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 1st Grade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site focuses on resources and activities to teach Dolch sight words to 1st graders. These include a list of Dolch sight words for 1st graders and links to online resources for teacher resources, activities, interactive games, and...
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Your Dictionary: Kindergarten Opposites Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.
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Your Dictionary: Simple Action Words for Pre K Children

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
This site offers a list of simple action words suitable for Pre-K children and tips for teachers on how to teach them.
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Your Dictionary: Possessive Pronouns: Practice Sheets

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Two practice sheets asking students to choose the correct possessive pronoun to complete each sentence.
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Your Dictionary: 1st Grade Grammar

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses what grammar first graders need to know including how to count out syllables by clapping, what nouns and verbs are and the differences between them, and basic sentence structure (subject-verb-object).
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Determiners and Articles

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on teaching articles and determiners to native and non-native English speakers. It suggests beginning with articles (a, an, the), then moving to determiners (my, her, his, this, that, these, those); it also suggests...
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Your Dictionary: Adjective Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article explains several activities for teaching adjectives to elementary students. These include Describe the Silly Hat, Describe Your Drawing, Adjective of the Day, Hide-and-Seek with Adjectives, and Appetizing Adjectives.
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Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...
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Your Dictionary: Verb Activities

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This articles discusses the use of grammar games to help students understand verbs; it describes several verb activities and games including verb activities with a word wall, Power Verbs, Nicky Noun and Victor Verb, and Fortune Cookie...
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Your Dictionary: Fun Language Arts Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses reasons and suggestions for teaching the language arts curriculum through playing games including dictionary races and alphabetical order races, Mad Libs, punctuation games, crossword puzzle, word searches and...