A series of activities based on Elizabeth George Speare's The Sign of The Beaver takes your class through vocabulary, reading comprehension, and literary analysis. A good packet or collection of assignments for a reading circle.

Give your class members proper guidelines for completing vocabulary work using this PowerPoint, which prompts learners to provide definitions based on context clues, then dictionary definitions, synonyms and antonyms, and finally, a...

Ensure that your pupils are paying attention to vocabulary each week. On this page, they can record eight words they find in their reading, or words provided by the instructor. Learners note down the page or line number the word came...

To stand up can have many different meanings. Examine the different usages in English and relate one of these meanings to a short film about homophobic bullying. Class members view and discuss the film as well as a short reading passage...

Some emotions are indescribable, but sometimes you have to try! After brainstorming adjectives that describe emotions, pupils watch a quick film, at first with no sound. Partners share their adjectives and come up with descriptions for...

Prepare your pupils for making excellent presentations. Class members discuss elements of a successful presentation, work in groups to come up with their own scripts for the featured video, compare their work to the original voice-over,...

Crack the crust of earth science vocabulary with this vocabulary exercise. Kids use the key at the top of the page to decode the words that are written in numbers rather than letters. Each encoded word is part of a sentence that includes...

Young readers learn key vocabulary from the book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat with these fun collaborative activities. Using the word and picture cards included in this document, children play games that help them make connections...

While working with Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day," take some time to consider vocabulary. This exercise lists eight sentences from the story in which Bradbury uses words in interesting or different ways. Pupils read the sentence...

Looking for a vocabulary list and exercise to use with a study of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton? Try out this resource, which provides both the list and the exercise. Each of 19 words is paired with a part of speech and definition or...

Study and practice the vocabulary in Rudyard Kipling's famous story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi." Pupils underline verbs in a passage from the story, taking special note of vivid or precise verbs. They then write original sentences for five...

Who doesn't like muffins!? Your kids can find out the basic steps of making muffins by putting together this small Spanish book. Learners can read the steps and color in the images. See the materials for two additional versions of the...

Support young learners' acquisition of new vocabulary with this pair of graphic organizers. Using context clues and reference materials, children complete each section of the worksheet including the definition, synonyms, examples and...

Lead young learners to an understanding of new vocabulary with this series of word maps. The first of these organizers asks children to determine the definition and provide examples and descriptions of each word with the help of...

Support children with finding meaning in unknown words using this simple graphic organizer. While reading a piece of writing, students identify words they are unfamiliar with, using context clues and reference materials to find and...

Clarify and examine specific words in depth with the Frayer model. Pupils can use this learning exercise to write down the definition, characteristics, examples, and nonexamples for a given word.

Support the acquisition of content area vocabulary with this simple foldable resource. With space for studying three new terms, children are asked to determine the definition, write a sentence, and provide examples for each word....

Explore the multiple meanings of common homographs with this fun language arts activity. Given a series of word webs and a pile of definition cards, children complete each web by matching four different definitions to each target word. A...

Support young learners with acquiring new vocabulary from their independent reading books with this book report form. After documenting the book's title, author, and illustrator, children record three new words they encountered in the...

Supplement a class reading of the children's book Mice and Beans by Pam Muñoz Ryan with this fun vocabulary presentation. Each slide provides a definition, picture, and sentence demonstrating how the word is used. Young readers are also...

Looking for a few assignments to accompany your study of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton? There are three decent worksheets included here. The first is a vocabulary study page, the second is a theme exercise, and the third is a writing...

Bring parents into your study of The Cay by Theodore Taylor. Each of the five activities included here incorporates parent input and participation. The activities focus on setting, characterization, and vocabulary. Graphic organizers and...

Getting ready to start Hoot by Carl Hiaasen? Don't waste your time sifting through the book on a search for vocabulary words. Use this resource instead! There are words from the entire book here, separated into five lists. Learners write...

Introduce your language learners to Arabic. The most useful portion of this resource is the detailed information on the Arabic alphabet. Each letter is placed in a grid that shows the various ways to write it based on the situation...