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Your Dictionary: Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
This is a basic crossword puzzle dictionary with an explanation of how to use it. It also offers information and a comparison of three other online crossword dictionaries that have extra features: Wordsmyth, Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle...
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Your Dictionary: Scrabble Word Finder
This article discusses using a Scrabble Word Finder. It focuses on the Your Dictionary Word Finder including explaining ways to use it and what is available through it.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 8th Grade
This article offers a list of words that 8th graders should know by sight and links to several online resources for teachers including Internet4Classrooms, Puzzlemaker, Tools for Educators, and Fun With Words.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Root Words
This Skillswise site focuses on root words. Included are a video about why learning how to identify root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Grocery List Spelling [Pdf]
This PDF activity page offers a unique way to study spelling words. Students do one activity (such as make a crossword with their spelling list and definitions) from three of the four grocery store departments: meat, produce, bakery, and...
Quia
Quia: Feast of Homonyms
Online flash cards let students test their knowledge of homonyms by flipping through a 40-card stack.
Other
Vocab Test: Vocabulary Tests for 8th Graders
Fifteen vocabulary units are offered here. Each unit provides a list of words and sixteen learning and assessment options from learning definitions and traditional quizzes to crosswords and games. Teacher resources, e.g., answer keys and...
English Page
English Page: English Vocabulary: Advanced Vocabulary Lessons
This site gives people learning English with a list of useful vocabulary for situations such as getting an apartment or going to the grocery store. It includes a learning activity to practice the vocabulary.
Other
One Look Reverse Dictionary
OneLook is a dictionary for those times when you have a good idea what a word means, but you can't think of the word itself. You can also generate lists of related terms or possible answers for crossword clues. L.9-10.4c References,...
Other
Teaching Ideas: Using a Thesaurus
Use this worksheet activity to develop your thesaurus research skills.
Other
Student Handouts: Textbook Vocabulary Word Boxes
This is a graphic organizer for students to learn textbook vocabulary. They fill in the location of the word, the vocabulary word, text definition, their own definition, and an illustration. PDF Reader is needed and available on the website