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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Dictionaries and Indexes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Skillswise site focuses on using dictionaries and indexes. Included are a video about why using these tools is important, fact sheets and worksheets about using them, quizzes on the information presented, and a dictionary game. The...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Sat Vocabulary Word Games

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the use of word games to teach SAT vocabulary words; it provides a list of different types of games that could be used for SAT prep including Jeopardy, crossword puzzles, hangman, online SAT prep quiz games, word...
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Your Dictionary: Charades Word Lists for Kids

For Students K - 1st
This is a list of words to use for charades for kids including book titles, children's movies, names of famous people, and geographical locations. The books and movie titles are broken down by age groups.
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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: Charades Game Word List

For Students 1st - 9th
This is a list of book, movie, and television show titles to be used to compile a list for a game of charades. It also explains the basic rules for the game and how to choose words for different groups.
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Your Dictionary: Games for Grammar Usage

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses games for learning grammar usage including classroom games like Invisible Grammar Guy, Rhyme That Word; how teachers can make their own games using online word search and puzzle makers; and online grammar game...
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Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This article offers insight on how children best learn vocabulary while having fun and using a variety of both audio and visual stimulation, as well as tactile components. It offers four sample games: Prefix/Suffix Game, Vocabulary...
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Your Dictionary: Grammar Games for Kids

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This article explains some games that can be used to help students learn grammar and vocabulary while having fun. These include Grandmother's Cat and Invisible Grammar Guy.
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Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
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Your Dictionary: Games for Grammar Usage in High School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article advocates the use of games to teach grammar to high school students. It offers reasons and ideas for finding such games and describes one game called SWAT.
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Your Dictionary: Classroom Rebuses

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article discusses the use of rebus (combination of pictures and words) puzzles and stories in the classroom; it also supplies a list of online sources for rebus puzzles and stories.
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Your Dictionary: Valentine's Day Word Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on Valentine's Day word games including providing a word list for Valentine's Day, and suggesting activities such as writing love letters and playing Valentine charades.
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Your Dictionary: Winter Word Games

For Students K - 1st
This article discusses winter word games including Melting Snowman, Draw It, and Password.