Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...

A six-part learning module with links to texts and images for a context clues lesson involving four learning stations.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...

This lesson explains how to interpret vocabulary by using context. L.9-10.4a Context/Meaning, L.11-12.4a Words/Context

This lesson explains how to examine nearby words when determining the meaning of vocabulary words. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. L.11-12.4 Word Meanings, L.11-12.4a Words/Context

This lesson focuses on increasing your vocabulary including using context clues, dictionaries, and your working vocabulary. It also offers two videos with strategies for enhancing your vocabulary.

During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.

In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...