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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Advanced Definition Match 3

For Students 9th - 12th
Looking for a vocabulary list and activity? This online exercise, which provides instant feedback, asks participants to match a list of words with their definitions using a drop-down menu for each word. This could work as a review or...
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Word Roots 4: GRAD, MOT, CAD Advanced Match 3

For Students 8th - 12th
Access vocabulary knowledge with this online exercise. For this activity, learners match words to their definitions by choosing a letter from the drop-down menu provided for each word. This series of vocabulary exercises focuses in...
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Word Roots 6: PLIC, FAC, COGN Advanced Definition Match 3

For Students 8th - 12th
Instruct your class in vocabulary and word roots and use this online resource as practice. For each word provided, learners choose the letter from a drop-down menu that corresponds with the correct definition for that word. Use it as a...
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Word Roots 6: PLIC, FAC, COGN Intermediate True and False 2

For Students 8th - 12th
Help your class make sense of vocabulary with this online interactive resource. Using a word bank and information on word roots, pupils determine if each statement is correct, marking true or false. Since this is an online activity, they...
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Latin Roots cern, jur, leg: Intermediate Matching Quiz

For Students 6th - 11th
Young etymologists match intermediate-level words containing the Latin roots cern, jur, and leg with their definitions. They can email their results to you, print out the list for further study, and undertake an array of other related...
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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Beginner - Context Story 1

For Students 7th - 12th
Promote understanding of vocabulary words with this audio recording. You or your learners click on a character image to hear a vocabulary passage read out loud. The audio recording repeats each bold word twice, giving your class a chance...
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Word Roots 4: Grad, Mot, Cad Beginner Fill-in-the-Blanks

For Students 7th - 12th
Using context clues and learning root words are two great ways to improve vocabulary. This resource taps into both of those strategies, offering up 12 fill-in-the-blank sentences, a word bank, and information on Latin roots. You might go...
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Transition Words and Phrases: Road Signs for the Reader

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Therefore! However! Furthermore! Explore the power of transition words and phrases. Signal your readers by suggesting the relationship between different thoughts or points. Help them demonstrate an understanding of word relationships. 
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Word Roots 7: SPECT, STA, VERT Beginner Context Story 1

For Students 7th - 12th
Read this paragraph out loud to your class to demonstrate pronunciation of and introduce context for the given vocabulary words. You might also use this as a cloze activity and have class members read each vocabulary word or repeat each...
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Brigham Young University

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Word Squares

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Encourage your class to use a variety of strategies to learn and retain vocabulary words. The plan suggests that near the beginning of your reading of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead pupils should find words in the text that are...
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Parrot in the Oven: Word Tree - Bonsai or Banyan

For Teachers 6th - 9th
What fun! As part of a vocabulary exercise designed for Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida readers create word trees with the trunk representing the root word and the branches representing prefixes that can be added to the...
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Word Meanings From Context

For Students 6th - 9th
Here's a context clues learning exercise that provides practice or assesses the use of "a" words including alacrity, abrasive, acrimonious, abridged, alleviate, and more. Readers study the context and then select the best meaning from...
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Organizer
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Troublesome Word Pairs

For Students 6th - 10th
This activity helps to understand when to use commonly confused words. It includes definitions, writing exercises, and questions that require paraphrasing the meaning of sentences. A good exercise for middle schoolers, or review for high...
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Dead Word Wall Lesson

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Help your writers eliminate "dead words" (words that are overused) from their writing. This instructional activity includes a SMART board presentation that will guide them through identifying, eliminating, and substituting "dead words"...
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Modals and Their Meaning in Context

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
By focusing on an oil-related theme, learners answer questions using context clues. They assign meaning to each highlighted modal in an example sentence from a word bank of choices. (Examples of meaning choices include impossibility...
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Word Roots Lesson #1 - Focus: chrom

For Students 8th - 10th
What does the root word chrom mean? Review the root and the different prefixes and suffixes that can be added to it to enhance its meaning. Then, get your class using the new words with two short exercises. A brief introduction to the...
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PPT
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Vocabulary Building

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Offer learners a step-by-step process for approaching unknown words with this PowerPoint presentation of vocabulary strategies, which details how to use context clues and word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes), as well as encourages...
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The First (and Last) Words

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What does "freedom of speech" mean to your class, especially in the context of Internet communications? In round-table discussion format, middle and high schoolers address the issues discussed in "State Legislatures Across U.S. Plan to...
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Context Clues Worksheet (Part 3)

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Ask your pupils to become amateur detectives and use clues to determine the meaning of words. Once they have analyzed the clues, they write the meaning on a provided blank line. If they internalize this process, they can use context...
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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Beginner Definitions Match 1

For Students 8th - 12th
Consider this online matching activity to assist your class with vocabulary and word roots. Class members select a definition for each listed vocabulary word using a drop-down menu for each response. Learners receive immediate feedback,...
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Word Pairs

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students compare similar words that are often confused. In this Language arts lesson, students review meanings of words that are often confused. Students complete a worksheet and sentences to practice correct usage of these words.
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Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's hard to imagine that anything was missed on this five-page list of science roots, prefixes, and suffixes! Listed in alphabetical order, all are included in a single, two-column list. This may be especially useful for advanced...
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Literacy Design Collaborative

Words Matter: Diction and Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"

For Teachers 10th Standards
Watch your tone! Scholars analyze how diction in George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant contributes to the tone of the text. Readers watch a video, participate in a word splash, and work through a PowerPoint lesson to help them determine...
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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Beginner Crossword

For Students 7th - 12th
Learners match definitions to words in order to complete this crossword puzzle. The focus of this puzzle is words that contain the Latin roots FIN, SED, and FER. The answer document does not work, so the vocabulary list off of which this...

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