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Compound Word Games

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners build compound words out of two separate words using a variety of activities. In this compound word lesson plan, students practice building compound words using word cards. These word cards can be used in a variety of ways to...
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Practice With Compound Words and Homophones

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders work with compound words. In this compound word lesson, 3rd graders define and give examples of compound words and homophones. They complete an Instant Activity worksheet.
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Food Poems and Base Words

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars identify base words to decipher new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, students complete a graphic organizer while reading about food and nutrition. Young scholars discuss simple and complex endings when using words. 
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Making Sense of Homographs

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
What is a homograph? Develop your students' vocabulary with a word association tool.   Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs such as...
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Split Suffixes

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Make new words by adding suffixes to word beginnings. There are four suffixes here: -ible, -able, -ive, and -ion. After using them to complete five given words, they use their vocabulary skills to apply the suffixes to words they think...
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Vocabulary Development

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What is a root word? What is a prefix? Suffix? Use these questions to spark a discussion amongst your language art learners. Then, start by writing the word irresistible on the board and have teams of learners attempt to create new words...
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Muddles Doubles!

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
These compound words are all mixed up! Learners examine eight words that need to be reorganized, writing the correct words on this instructional activity. Next, they think up some compound words of their own. Finally, learners complete...
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Spell, Shoot, Score!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Games are great ways to motivate. The class is split into two teams; each team earns points by correctly spelling given words. To score bonus points, teams get to shoot baskets with a small ball. Tip: This game could be used to reinforce...
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World Teachers' Day

For Students 3rd - 5th
Practice reading comprehension by having your class read a factual passage about World Teachers' Day and mach phrases, fill in the blanks, identify correct grammar usage, unscramble vocabulary words, sequence sentences from the passage,...
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Making Inferences (1)

For Students 2nd - 5th
Provide readers with an opportunity to practice drawing inferences by giving them this activity. Kids identify the text and author, record a sentence they believe infers rather than directly says, and then write the deeper meaning the...
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Phonics Genius

For Students Pre-K - 5th Standards
Readers at any level who are practicing phonics will benefit from a highly customizable set of features designed for instruction and practice. The extensive library of phonemes and exemplar words covers sounds from the a in cat to the zh...
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Interactive
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Words With "or"

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn the spelling and meaning of six words with the "or" pattern. Students spell the words in dictation, unscramble the letters in the words and use them in sentences.
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Teach-nology

Means the Same

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Reinforce grammar instruction with an 11-question synonym activity. Scholars read a set of four words and circle the two that best make a synonym pair. 
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Prefixes In-, Pre-, and Re-

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing the meanings of prefixes worksheet, learners read the meanings of in-, pre-, and re- and write the meanings of words spelled with those prefixes. Students write 13 answers.
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Farm Animals Word Search Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this farm animals word search worksheet, students locate 20 words hidden in a puzzle. They find the words and then read a rhyming slang expression that means: not likely or nonsense.
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Speaking and Listening Sound Alike Words

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this alike words worksheet, learners read the sentences, underline the incorrect words, and write a sound-alike word for the 20 sentences.
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Spelling List 10: Sight Words, Long "ea" and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this spelling worksheet, students learn 16 words in a list. There are no directions but there are two blank lines next to each word. The words are sight words, long "ea" pattern words and academic vocabulary.
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Create a Word Graveyard to Teach Synonyms

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore descriptive writing by creating headstones. In this memorial lesson, students utilize an 11" x 17" piece of paper to create a cemetery headstone memorializing a word rather than a person. Students decorate their...
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Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements: Affix Action

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Make a game out of word parts. Pupils work in pairs to advance along the board. One partner reads a sentence from a card, and the other identifies the correct affix that fits with a word in that sentence.
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity...
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
The four worksheets here are provided to introduce your learners to new vocabulary on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each list contains seven vocabulary words focused on a specfic vowel pair. First the learner hears the word,...
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A Nice Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Explore word choice in writing. Your class listens to a short story entitled "A Nice Day" (included) and discusses how the story could be improved. Pupils replace the word nice throughout the story with various synonyms, then reread the...
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Prefixes "en-", "ex-" Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learners attach the prefix "en-" to three root words, defining the meaning of each word and its new meaning when the prefix is added. They then repeat the process for the prefix "ex-." Definitions for both prefixes are provided, though...
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Words With Multiple Meanings #7

For Students 1st - 4th
In this words with multiple meanings #7 worksheet, students use 4 pairs of words with multiple meanings in a vocabulary game.

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