+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson: Weaving Words

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A woven rug depicting birds and cornstalks becomes the inspiration for a lesson on critical thinking and creative writing. Learners analyze the symbolism found in the rug and then compose a descriptive paragraph or poem that embodies the...
+
Lesson Plan
Prestwick House

Vocabulary Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Vocabulary instruction works best when taught within a larger context. A vocabulary activity builds connections by using synonyms to help learn the meaning of new words. This helps connect the words to prior knowledge and give them context.
+
Lesson Plan
American English

Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
+
Website
University of North Carolina

Modals

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Modal verbs such as could and would express possibility, as the installment of a compilation of informational handouts describes. A series of tables help explain the strength,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading Word Recognition, Fluency, and Vocabulary

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze words that derive meaning from Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. In this myth vocabulary lesson, 11th graders work in learning groups as visual learners, kinesthetic learners, and artistic learners to identify the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Words Have Meaning

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners interpret and analyze art for meaning and a Maya Angelou poem for meaning. In this art and literature analysis instructional activity, students analyze Alison Saar's "Lost and Found" and Maya Angelou's poem "Alone." Learners...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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...
+
Worksheet
Beatrice Public Schools

Analogy Practice Worksheet

For Students 7th - 11th
Clarify word relationships and practice working with synonyms and antonyms by administering an extensive instructional activity. Class members determine the relationship between words and complete a series of analogies. Before assigning...
+
Worksheet
English Club

Prefixes

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The power of prefixes to change the meaning of words becomes clear to intermediate-level English language learners with a two-page worksheet. Individuals select a prefix from a provided list to alter words to match the meaning of...
+
Activity
Curated OER

Ordinary People: Desktop Teaching

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Turn the pupil into the teacher to help your learners pick up and retain vocabulary from Ordinary People by Judith Guest. Each individual selects a word, studies it in depth, and then teaches their word to the rest of the class, one...
+
Handout
California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc

Poetic Devices

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Have everything you need to know about the elements of poetry with a nine-page handout. Split into four categories—word sounds, meanings, arrangement, and imagery—budding poets may reference terms, read definitions, descriptions, and...
+
Study Guide
Mind Snacks

SAT Vocab - MindSnacks

For Students 6th - 12th
Who knew learning and practicing vocabulary for the SAT could be this absorbing? With 500 words to learn after an upgrade, and nine different games for practice, users are sure to feel prepared on testing day!
+
PPT
East Stroudsburg University

In Your Own Words... Paraphrasing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can you put a passage in your own words without changing the meaning of the original text? That is the question facing many young researchers. The advice modeled in this presentation is that writers read the passage carefully,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vocabulary Building

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Use primary text documents to learn word roots. Learners listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence and highlight words they don't know. They compile these words and guess their meanings. They discuss roots, prefixes,...
+
Worksheet
Mrss Hernandezbchs

English 9: Word Roots Lesson #3

For Students 7th - 12th
The focus of this worksheet is the word root chron. Individuals will review the meanings of several prefixes and suffixes as well as this root word. Included are 14 questions, seven in two different activities. The first activity asks...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Editing at the Word Level

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Editing at the word level means looking closely at each noun, adjective, verb, and verb in the piece being reviewed. Writers are encouraged to highlight the words they find satisfying in one color and words that fall short with another....
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Shooting an Elephant"

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Study selected vocabulary terms in George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." A chart includes five selections, and learners must record the connotative and denotative meaning for each. A great look at using the context to define vocabulary...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Rules of Thumb for Diction

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What is the difference between accept and except? Affect and effect? Brilliantly advise your class with the advice in these slides. Definitions of commonly misused words from A-Z help clarify meaning and usage.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Antonia: Magic Squares (Vocabulary Strategy)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Help your pupils discover the power of context clues by teaching the this vocabulary strategy. Designed to go with words from Willa Cather's My Antonia, this exercise focuses on having individuals use their own words to define new...
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Vocabulary Word Cluster

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
In this vocabulary word cluster worksheet, students examine the meaning of 6 words as they list the words and their parts of speech. Students also list synonyms, write sentences, and draw pictures regarding the word meanings.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Wordiness Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences eliminating extra words and combining short sentences into longer ones when necessary.
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
What So Proudly We Hail

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Lesson on the Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
What does it mean to say that a right is unalienable? How did the founding fathers convey this revolutionary concept in the Declaration of Independence? Engage in a close reading and analysis of the Declaration of Independence, and...
+
Website
University of North Carolina

Latin Terms and Abbreviations

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
N.B.. cit., n.b., viz., sc., inf. e,g,—these abbreviations frequently appear in academic papers and on works cited lists, but what do they mean? Part of a larger series to improve writing skills, the handout on Latin terms and...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 9th - 11th
For this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter T.

Other popular searches