New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11
You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson plan. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Vocabulary Stretchers
Here is a list of terrific ideas for teachers to use in the classroom to accompany vocabulary building lessons. These activities are well summarized and easy to understand.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists
This lesson has a new approach to vocabulary building where learners generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.
Other
Introduce Vocabulary: My School's a Zoo
A unique and flexible way to introduce vocabulary. The instructor introduces three new words to the class, then as the book My School's a Zoo by Stu Smith, is read, the students raise their hands when they hear the new words. The...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Building Word Knowledge Through Informational Websites
A lesson through which students identify, understand and work with important vocabulary words found in an online article on biodiversity. Based on the "Ten Important Words Plus" strategy that teachers can employ as part of vocabulary and...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Vocabulary Games
Begin building a better vocabulary through this comprehensive lesson plan with vocabulary games. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The City (La Ciudad): Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Buildings found in a city. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented -...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Transportation: Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Transportation. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented - audio...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: The Future: Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This lesson focuses on miscellaneous vocabulary. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce the material presented. Audio...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia) Vocabulary
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on family vocabulary. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce the material presented. Audio is...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes directions for...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Vocabulary Self Collection Strategy
Contains plans for two lessons that ask young scholars to compose their own vocabulary lists by selecting words that are unfamiliar to them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Root Word Lessons
This is an index of links to activities using root words. These activities are separated into 3 levels of difficulty. These interactive, vocabulary puzzles and activities use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word...
Other
Texas Council on Economic Education: Building an Economy: Texas Experience [Pdf]
A 14-lesson, 169-page unit on the economic history of Texas. Lessons cover the free enterprise system, the economic patterns and motivations of Native Americans and various immigrant groups, the impact of the closing of the frontier, the...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Building Circuits
In this lesson, students build series and parallel circuits and test their conductivity. Includes handouts with diagrams, and a vocabulary list with definitions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Greek Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart lesson contains several activities. History - students understand the chronology of Greek history and can organize events and people into major categories to explain historical...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure
Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.
Hopelink
Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Kitchen Utensils Vocabulary
This vocabulary development tool for students features a matching exercise that shows pictures of common items of common kitchen utensils. Students match correct word with picture from a drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score can be...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Weather: Vocabulary (El Tiempo)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: weather vocabulary, seasons. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented -...