[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the common core standard of asking questions to determine unknown words in an informational text.

This is a large collection of performances by both famous and unknown poets. Also find poetry performances by subject.

Here is a list of terrific ideas for teachers to use in the classroom to accompany vocabulary building lessons. These activities are well summarized and easy to understand.

A fantastic reading skills site emphasizing vocabulary activities. This site contains 54 individual vocabulary activities to click on, and provides teaching tips as well. It is still in the building phase, and more activities, tips, and...

Use these teaching tips from the PBS Kids Lab to help children make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equations, use addition and subtraction within 20 to...

This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach students to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

Students are to read a word problem, write a division equation, and explain their reasoning.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this lesson.

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.4.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...

Heres a comprehensive review of the basics of algebra. WyzAnt includes lessons on varied topics, calculators that show step-by-step solutions, and interactive worksheets for practicing and testing your skills. Just choose a topic and use...

Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to learners and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to learners.

Classroom teachers will learn about the Frayer Model, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement the Frayer Model, understand how to measure progress with the Frayer Model, find research that supports...

This lesson plan uses a virtual trip to the moon to teach vocabulary practice. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

This learning module focuses on using context clues to understand unknown words including definitions, examples, restatements, cause and effect/relationships, and comparisons. It provides examples with explanations and a practice...

A slide show with forty-two slides with explanations and examples on how to use context clued to determine the meanings of unknown words.

This lesson plan uses Mad Libs to teach vocabulary using context clues to define unknown words.

This ebook version of Unknown author's Very Little Tales For Very Little Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

This lesson explains how to use contextual story clues to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. RL.11-12.4 Words/Context/Story, L.11-12.4a Words/Context

A report, by National Public Radio, about the newly restored gospel of Judas unveiled to the public by the National Geographic Society in April 2006. Discovered in a cave in the Egyptian desert in the 1970s, the gospel had remained...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart focuses on context clues.

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard RI.K.4.

Given some information about a real-world context, analyze expressions containing unknown variables that model that context.

From the International Institute of Social History this is "With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word 'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the word 'Usefullness'." a Chinese...