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Gustar and Similar Verbs
The -ar verbs gustar and encantar are often confusing to non-native speakers, so give your beginning classes this reference guide to help them understand the shift in sentence formation. The well-organized charts are effective and clear,...
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Bud Not Buddy
A two-day assessment challenges scholars to read an excerpt from the story, Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis then complete a series of exercises in preparation for a writing assignment. Day one includes an independent...
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Unlocking New Words
Students are introduced to the various types of suffixes and prefixes. In groups, they identify the root words and determine the proper suffix or prefix to add to the root. They complete a worksheet and review their answers to end the...
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Accept/Except
For this confusing words worksheet, students review the meanings of the words accept and except. Students then read examples of using the words correctly.
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Online Words
Students use an online dictionary to discover the meaning of vocabulary words. The use of the internet is a skill that is developed for the integration of technology into the curriculum.
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Jambo Means Hello: An Introduction To Swahili
Students gain an appreciation for Swahili as a language spoken in many parts of Africa. They share and illustrate words from their own culture using English and Swahili and others to create a word quilt.
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Online Words
Students define spelling/vocabulary words using an online dictionary. In this Internet resources instructional activity, students learn how to use an online dictionary to look up the definitions of their spelling or vocabulary words.
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Hidden Spelling Words
In this hidden spelling words worksheet, students find spelling words in a word search, answer short answer questions about words, and write questions of their own. Students search for 20 words, answer 5 questions, and write 3 on their...
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Words, words, words
Students discuss words that represent the big ideas in Othello and that recur throughout the play. They are assigned words to track throughout the text, recording which character says the word and in what context.
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Confusing Words
In this confusing words worksheet, students complete 30 sentences with the words that are given, using context clues to determine the meaning.
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Mean Twisters - Mean Proportional
In this mean proportional worksheet, students work in pairs to solve right triangle problems. They use ratios and proportions of similar triangles to determine a missing length. This two-page worksheet contains 16 problems.
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A New Word Everyday: The Hobbit
Students record unknown vocabulary they encounter while reading The Hobbit. In this "A New Word Everyday" lesson, after students record unknown words, they must use a dictionary to find the correct definition and write it down.
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Word Art with King's Words
Learners investigate equality and racism by creating a word art project. In this civil rights lesson, students discover the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and create a word art project using the Internet site Wordle Web. ...
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Teaching Tolerance: Taking Action on the R-Word
Young scholars explore the use of derogatory language and labeling others. In this discrimination activity students research word origins, how different terms came to be used in a negative sense and what it would be like to have a...
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Synonyms: Words With Similar Meanings
In this synonym worksheet, students choose words from a word box that act as synonyms for italicized words in sentences. Students then complete the sentence frame, "__________is another word for________."
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings
In this synonyms practice worksheet, students read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms for the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings 2
In this synonyms practice worksheet, students read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms for the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings 3
In this synonyms practice worksheet, learners read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms to the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings 4
In this synonyms practice worksheet, students read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms for the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.
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Synonyms #2: Words With Similar Meanings
In this synonym worksheet, students choose words from a word box that act as synonyms for italicized words in sentences, then complete sentence frames.
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The Word Root "Circ"
In this word root worksheet, students complete 5 sentences, filling in blanks with "circ" words from a word box, then complete a challenge activity, creating a similar activity with 3 additional words.
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Open Word Sort: Black Hockey Players
Students categorize relative phrases from a word bank, then analyze and discuss an article on the subject.
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Vocabulary Practice: Similar Meanings
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read a sentence, then circle the letter of the sentence beneath out of 3 that means the same as the first.
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Word Books
Learners explore art and writing. They create a word book consisting of new words that they come across in their reading or words they hear from people. Students create a cover for their word books.