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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Intro to Vocabulary Building Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article explains in general how to build vocabulary using reading strategies such as context clues.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[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...
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by...
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes directions for...
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Building Word Castles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will explore unfamiliar words found in various picture books by Patricia Polacco. Students will discover the meanings of unfamiliar words by using a dictionary and find synonyms and antonyms with a thesaurus. The...
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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Japanese English Vocab Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These online vocabulary exercises are created for Japanese speakers to study English. Extensive amount of exercises on various topics. They require JavaScript. Some do not require Japanese fonts.
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Frostburg State University

General Chemistry Online: Glossary: Polymer Chemistry

For Students 9th - 10th
A glossary of terminology surrounding polymer chemistry. Good site for vocabulary building or reinforcement.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This article offers insight on how children best learn vocabulary while having fun and using a variety of both audio and visual stimulation, as well as tactile components. It offers four sample games: Prefix/Suffix Game, Vocabulary...
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English Club

English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Jobs 7

For Students 5th - 8th
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about different building and manufacturing trades. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Play Match It Sentences Games

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Complete ten analogy sentences by choosing the word that matches the relationship in each sentence.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers German English Picture Dictionary

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This engaging picture dictionary encourages reading and vocabulary building among young students whose first language is German. There are also activity pages which can be printed for classroom use.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Morphology

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...
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Education.com

Education.com: L.4.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 16 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.3.A: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas.
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C-SPAN

C Span Classroom: Teaching About Keystone Xl Pipeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning materials from which students read and watch videos for and against the proposed expansion of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline and then debate the issue in classroom deliberations. Site includes video, lesson plans,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Tall Are We?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
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Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a instructional activity in which learners identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

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