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Six Ways To Practice Spelling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the development of skills needed to increase spelling skills. They practice using a specific method that includes the following: practice makes permanent, don't try to learn all the...
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CTBS Spelling Practice #5

For Students 9th - 10th
In this spelling practice worksheet, students identify the correct spelling out of five multiple choice options. Students answer forty two questions.
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Lesson Exchange: Is This A Real Word? (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young readers practice looking words up in the dictionary. This lesson plan describes a simple, yet engaging, game that can be played as a whole-class activity.
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Alphabetical Order

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This is a vocabulary worksheet with a twist! Young elementary-schoolers put these 13 words into alphabetical order before finding their meanings, uses, and origins. They will need to use reference materials, and may need some help...
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Exploring Arizona's Biotic Communities Lesson 2: Biotic Communities Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Part of a unit on Arizona's biotic communities, this activity focuses on the vocabulary to be used. Terms include biodiversity, topography, desert, hybridization, niche, and more! Youngsters will define these words from contextual...
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Prefixes Micro- and Mega-

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore vocabulary context clues with a prefix activity. Using the prefixes micro- and mega-, fourth graders complete sentence frames. They then make up their own word with the correct prefixes. Helpful as homework or during a writing...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary Morphemic Elements: Affix Game

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
How well do you know your affixes? Find out how proficient your learners are with a game that requires them to define various affixes and use them to create words that will go into sentences.
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Dictionary Details

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This clever lesson has learners practice finding a variety of types of information in a dictionary by playing a "Dictionary Scavenger Hunt" game. Students must use the guide words at the top of a dictionary page, determine what part of...
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Breaking News: OMG, LOL, FYI Now in Oxford English Dictionary (26th March, 2011)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore vocabulary by analyzing the current events. In this dictionary addition lesson plan, students discuss a news topic about word additions into the Oxford Dictionary. Students complete a list of activities about the story...
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2nd Grade Language Practice

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this language practice worksheet, students complete a total of 25 multiple choice questions related to a variety of 2nd grade language concepts. An answer key is included.
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Third Grade Language Practice

For Teachers 3rd
In this grade 3 language practice worksheet, 3rd graders complete a total of 24 multiple choice questions based on a variety of grade 3 language concepts. An answer key is included.
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Handout
Minnesota Literacy Council

Adult Computer and Employment Skills

For Students 2nd - 8th
Whether you are an experienced computer user or a newcomer to technology, a packet full of computer vocabulary, tips, and guided practice is sure to enhance your technological knowledge. Learners can hone their word processing skills and...
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FCE Exam Speaking Practice

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students arrange their chairs into two circles - a smaller inner circle and a larger outer circle. They interview each other using a set of questions commonly found on speaking exams.
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The Practical English Dictionary

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine and use in writing and conversation this 47 page dictionary of common words. This is a word list with no meanings arranged in alphabetical order.
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Making a Karst Dictionary

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars practice using the correct vocabulary in geology and hydrology. They use the Internet to research topics and practice their researching skills.
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Dictionary Disorder #7: Antonyms and Synonyms

For Teachers 8th - 10th
In this synonym and antonym worksheet, young scholars use dictionaries to discover synonyms and antonyms for twenty words. Students circle antonyms and underline synonyms.
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Pala Software

SpellBoard

For Students 1st - 8th
How do you spell great? G-R-E-A-T! Ensure that your pupils can spell great and so much more with this effective app.
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Novelinks

The Tempest: Vocabulary Bingo

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Bingo! Practice vocabulary from William Shakespeare's The Tempest with a fun matching game. As you call out the definitions, class members mark the new vocabulary words that match and try to get five in a row.
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Vivacious Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice looking up the definitions of words using a dictionary. They put the defintion of the word into their own words. They create a PowerPoint slideshow to show illustrations related to their vocabulary words. Using the...
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Synonyms

For Students 6th - 9th
Print this sheet to give your English language learners some practice identifying synonyms. There are six questions listed, and each question has four options. For example, what is a synonym for attractive? The choices are appealing,...
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Writing a News Story

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using their target language by writing a news article.  In this foreign language writing instructional activity, students create a fictional "hero" in their city which they write a fictional news article about in their...
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Dictionary Skills

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use resources such as dictionaries and glossaries correctly to build word meaning and to practice all uses of their references; students also practice alphabetical order while locating information.
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The Dictionary Game

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify words they are unfamiliar with. They make up their own definitions and then look up the actual defintion in a dictionary. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Plural of Noun Formation Practice #1

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this plural nouns practice worksheet, students read an informative lesson about plural nouns. Students then respond to 20 questions that require them to make the shown nouns plural.