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Which Word Belongs in the Group?
In this categorizing words activity, students read a group of three words and determine what they have in common. From a word bank, students choose the word that belongs with the others. There are 10 questions.
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Categorizing Words
In this categories worksheet, students use a word list to put words into two groups and label the groups, identify a word that does not belong in either group, and create an additional group of words that belong together. Students write...
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Nightjohn: List-Group-Label Strategy
Encourage readers of Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen's young adult novel about slavery set shortly before the Civil War, to develop their categorization and organizational skills with a strategy that asks them to list all the words they can...
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Worksheet 9: Which Word Belongs?
In this categorizing words worksheet, learners complete each group of words with a word or phrase from the word bank that has a similar meaning to the other words in the group. There are 10 questions.
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Using Words as a Way into Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief
Use the Visual Thesaurus to predict the subject matter of Rick Riordan's book The Lightning Thief. A pre-reading activity encourages middle schoolers to use context clues and word meaning to discover what the book is about. After they...
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Home-School Links: Sorting Words
Youngsters read five words and determine why they belong together and why. The worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and student upon completion. Good, basic practice for young readers!
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Word Groups
In this word groups worksheet, middle schoolers complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz. Students read the four words in a group and choose the one that is somehow different from the others.
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Categorize Important Vocabulary Words and Describe their Features
Second graders read a short passage along with the teacher to pull out various transportation related words. They analyze each of the chosen words by creating a chart which helps them think about the similarities and differences of each...
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Vocabulary Instruction: Identify and Sort Common Words into Categories
Kids learn about the concept of nouns. They practice identifying nouns by sorting words into categories. As the teacher holds up each word, the class reads it in unison, then they take turns identifying it as a noun or non noun word....
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?
For this which word doesn't belong worksheet students read groups of words. In this multiple choice worksheet, students find ten answers.
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?
In this which word doesn't belong instructional activity, students determine a word that does not belong in a group, Students choose ten answers.
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Word Groups- Odd Word Out (2)
For this categorizing words worksheet, students read a group of 5 words, find the "odd word out" and write it on the line. There are 6 questions.
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Sorting Words
Students investigate rhyming words. For this word study lesson, students are introduced to rhyming words and then sort out the words that rhyme and group them. A worksheet is provided.
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Which Word Belongs
In this general categories worksheet, students read three words in a group and determine how they are related. From a list of given words, students choose the word that goes with the other words in the group and names their general...
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Sorting Words
In this language arts worksheet, learners analyze 15 groups of five words each. Students number the words according to how they should go in alphabetical order. Some words begin with the same letter.
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?
In this categorizing words activity, learners analyze the four words in a group in ten questions. Students check the one word that does not belong.
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Worksheet 15: Which Word Doesn't Belong?
In this categorizing words worksheet, students analyze the four words in each of ten groups. Students check the one word in each group that does not belong.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Vocabulary Strategy
In order to truly understand The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, you'll need to provide middle schoolers with background information about the Holocaust. After contributing as many words as they can associate with the Holocaust, such as...
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?
In this categorizing words worksheet, students analyze 10 groups of five words and check the word in each group that does not belong with the others.
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Sorting into Three Groups
First graders discuss categorizing items into different groups. In this language arts lesson, 1st graders read a story, chart three categories from the book and describe examples from the book that fit in each category.
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Word Groups 4
In this word groups worksheet, students put words that are together into a group. Students put 9 problems of words into a group on this worksheet.
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Adapting "List/Group/Label" to Literature
Need a prereading activity in line with the Common Core Standards for Language? Although designed for grades 11 and 12, the procedure detailed in this resource could be used with most grade levels. Prior to reading, select 20 – 25 words...
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Using a Dictionary: Root Words
A dictionary is a very helpful tool. Teach your third graders how to locate words, define them, and understand what root words are. They look up 12 words, write their definitions, then determine the root word that helps categorize each...
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Hoot: List-Group-Label
Word association is a great way to explore vocabulary and new ideas. In a unit about Carl Hiassen's Hoot, kids think about the word environmentalist and come up with additional words that they associate with environmentalism on sticky...