Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: Word Splash Sentences [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this PDF comparison/contrast lesson, students learn a word splash writing activity which asks students to craft meaningful sentences that utilize content vocabulary words. Students-alone or in groups-examine a collection of vocabulary...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: The Sketch N Write [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a PDF instructional activity. After studying vocabulary words or concepts that have similarities and differences, young scholars create a two-sided Sketch-n-Write for two or more words (or concepts). On the right-hand side of the...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Developing Vocabulary Context Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive whiteboard lesson is designed to help students develop their vocabulary by recognizing and analyzing context clues with unfamiliar words.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Context Clues Intro

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how they are used to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. There is sufficient material for several lessons on this topic. Included are activities and...
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition: Use Context Clues

For Students 5th Standards
This learning module focuses on using context clues to understand unknown words including definitions, examples, restatements, cause and effect/relationships, and comparisons. It provides examples with explanations and a practice...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concrete and Abstract Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.
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Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Colby College provides a large collection of exercises on adjectives, adverbs, numbers, prepositions, clauses, study modules, and more.
Activity
Other

Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
Handout
Other

Alpha Dictionary: Online Russian Reference Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
Most questions about Russian grammar can be answered at this website. Intended for native speakers of English who are interested in learning Russian. Background on Russian grammar might also be useful by ELL students and their teachers,...
Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "What Mitosis Has to Do With Families" Visualization

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....