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Academic Raceway
In this PowerPoint, students participate in a race car game in which their car moves towards the finish line when a correct synonym or antonym is chosen for the word provided.
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Animal Body Parts for ESL
Students describe what animals look like. In this ESL vocabulary development lesson, students complete worksheets and use images to help them describe what animals look like.Â
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Fill Me In
Second graders work on expanding their vocabulary. In this personal writing lesson, 2nd graders practice word identification and complete a worksheet by filling in the blanks.
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Vocabulary Study Booklet for "The Lizard and the Sun"
In this vocabulary worksheet, students cut apart ten small vocabulary cards, study the words on each, put them in alphabetical order, and use each in a sentence. Students staple the word cards into a booklet. All words pertain to The...
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Teaching With Documents: Order of Argument in the Case, Brown v. Board of Education
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this Brown v. Board of Education lesson, students examine sources that require them to consider the impact of the case in order to participate in a...
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The Banker to the Poor
In this vocabulary development worksheet, students complete sentences in a passage by choosing the correct word to fit each sentence.
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Reading The Flag Maker
Students explore The Flag Maker. In this reading comprehension lesson, students listen to the book The Flag Maker, making predictions and answering questions during the reading. Students locate facts and opinions within the book and...
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Understanding the Indoor Environment: Vocabulary Development
Learners acquire new vocabulary by reading an assigned text and determining the meanings of unfamiliar words. In this vocabulary development lesson, students acquire strategies to use in a small group as they decode meanings of...
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Vocabulary Development Vocabulary Zoo
Students practice their vocabulary skills. In this vocabulary skills instructional activity, students recall vocabulary words regarding indoor air quality.
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Deck of Word Cards
Students study vocabulary words associated with indoor air quality. In this air quality lesson, students participate in a word card game where they write sentences for the vocabulary words given. Students then check the original teacher...
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Understanding the Indoor Environment: Word Walls
Students study vocabulary words about indoor air quality. In this indoor environment lesson, students create a word wall with vocabulary words about indoor air quality and pollutants.
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Aliens Visit Earth Writing Exercise
In this grammar and writing worksheet, students correct the errors in 10 sentences about aliens visiting Earth. Students use 12 words in a box to complete a story and then write their own story about aliens.
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 7, 2005
Fifth graders complete a spelling activity for homographs. In this spelling activity, 5th graders complete a crossword puzzle using homographs.
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Unlocking Word Meanings
Fourth graders investigate eponyms in the English language. For this eponym lesson, 4th graders participate in a teacher led lesson on the definition of an eponym. They complete a worksheet in which they determine which eponym became...
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Match Each Definition
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match each definition in one column with the word or phrase it defines in another column. There are 12 words to match.
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Nationalities 2
For this nationalities review worksheet, students practice their vocabulary skills as they identify the countries that match each of the nationalities listed. For example, students should respond United States for the nationality American.
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So Rich, Such Wealth!
For this sentence completion worksheet, 2nd graders review and discuss the appropriate ways of using so and such in sentences. Students read ten sentences and fill in each blank with either so or such to complete each one grammatically...
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Easter Wordsearch
In this Easter activity, 1st graders define and discuss ten key terms associated with Easter. Students then find and circle each of the ten words in a word search puzzle.
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Dictionary Use Worksheet
In this dictionary learning exercise, students will practice using a dictionary. Students will respond to 16 short answer questions by looking up words in a dictionary in order to properly respond to each.
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Back to School
In this language arts instructional activity, students complete a crossword puzzle about the beginning of the school year. The 15 clues include general school procedures and supplies.
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That/Which/Who Game
Third graders play a game to practice speaking the target language (English). They are divided into teams. One student from each team sits at the front of the room. One student reads a clue (in English)-there team receives one point for...
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Increasing Vocabulary Using Internet Connections
Young scholars retell the story, "The Mitten," by Jan Brett, as a group by using the computer program,
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Vocabulary: Often-Confused Word Pairs
Sixth graders practice their word choice. In this vocabulary development instructional activity, 6th graders practice choosing the correct word when given a pair of words that are often confused for each other. this instructional...
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 15, 2003
Students complete a spelling activity that helps them create and spell words. For this spelling lesson, students manipulate letters to make words and complete the worksheet by writing new words.