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Using the Present Progressive: Word Search Game
Use the six clues to help your language learners find the accompanying words in the word search. Words can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, but the first letter in each word is shaded gray to ease the challenge.
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Word Search Puzzle: Family Relationships
To complete a word search puzzle on family relationship vocabulary, learners use six clues to help them determine which family relationship words to find. The first letter of each of the words is highlighted. Useful for beginning English...
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Say What You See!
Challenge your class with this innovative method for discussing sayings. Using the rebus format, learners identify the sayings referred to in a series of slides. The examples include such things as the word hand with a smaller version of...
Perkins School for the Blind
Wheel of Fortune Game
Games are great for practicing any number of basic skills. Here is a set of wonderful instructions for making a braille version of a spinning game, where children win points by correctly reading/identifying the high-frequency words the...
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Synonyms and Antonyms
Mix up your writing lessons by having kids look at recent newspaper articles instead of their own work. They work in pairs and rewrite sports news articles using synonyms and antonyms for a set number of words. Then they share their work...
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Prefixes Micro- and Mega-
Explore vocabulary context clues with a prefix activity. Using the prefixes micro- and mega-, fourth graders complete sentence frames. They then make up their own word with the correct prefixes. Helpful as homework or during a writing...
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Lesson 14 - Consonant-Le Syllables
The consonant-le syllable may appear in the word idle, but it is anything but dull. An informative lesson plan introduces words containing the consonant-le syllable. Using guided instruction, learners discover how to break words...
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Introducing Synonyms to Early Writers
Upper elementary schoolers examine the concept of synonyms and how using a variety of vocabulary through synonyms can expand their writing skills. They revise a paragraph using synonyms located on the Visual Thesaurus and participate in...
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The Honeycomb Challenge: Shapes and Colors
Play this game with young English language learners to help them learn color and shape vocabulary. As they make their way around the game board, they talk about the colors and shapes they pass and land on. Add math skills practice by...
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It's Opposite Day
Celebrate Opposite Day by using a Visual Thesaurus to match words to their antonyms. They match a list of vocabulary words to their antonym counterparts using the Visual Thesaurus, and then they play Antonym Bingo with the words from...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin's New Friend
The story Franklin's New Friend contains three tier-two vocabulary words! Your class reads the story, identifies the vocabulary words, and then works to construct their meanings. The new words are recorded either in a journal entry or on...
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Homographs
There are eight homograph riddles here: can your scholars figure them out? For each, there are three definitions and a picture. Learners use the picture and multiple meanings as clues, recording a word that matches all three. They read...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Blueberries for Sal (McCloskey)
Take your budding readers on a literary trip to pick blueberries as they learn vocabulary from Robert McClosky's book, Blueberries for Sal. By pre-teaching the words pupils are prepared to raise their hands when they hear the words in...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Franklin's New Friend (Bourgeois)
Franklin the turtle makes a new friend as youngsters learn vocabulary in context using Paulette Bourgeois' story (tip: this strategy can be applied to any book). Brief kids on the new words so they can raise their hands when they hear...
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Antonyms, synonyms and homophones
Shed light on what antonyms, synonyms, and homophones are. In this lesson, upper elementary schoolers create pairs using an antonym, a homophone, and/or a synonym. Then they play an antonym matching game.
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Student Dictionary
Third graders practice dictionary skills. They use a digital camera and insert pictures from a floppy disk into a document. They play a game in which they are handed an anonymous definition of each other and must find each other in class.
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Hockey Game (Advanced Code)
Make reading your goal with a hockey-themed phonics game! Kids read the words on each hockey puck, then move down the ice rink game board by following the instructions on each card.
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Playing the Vocabulary Game
This wonderful game is a terrific way to reinforce important vocabulary words across the curriculum
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Space Evaders: Feelings
In this feelings-related words game activity, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to Earth. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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Space Evaders: Numbers
In this number-related words game worksheet, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to Earth. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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Space Evaders: Sports
In this sports-related words game worksheet, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to Earth. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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The Honeycomb Challenge: Health Problems
In this health problems word game worksheet, students choose 1 of 2 game boards to play this game in which the object is to the first to make it to the honey. One game board features pictures while the other board features words that the...
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'Ee' Words Missing Vowels
In this phonics missing vowel activity instructional activity, learners fill in the missing vowels in 30 words in order to form 30 words with "ee". Students then read the list of words they have created.
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Possessive Nouns and Pronouns
In this missing possessives worksheet, learners fill in the blanks for the missing possessive pronouns in the sentences. Students complete 7 sentences.
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