Institute for the Professional Development of Adult Educators
Using Context Clues with Signal Words
When you come across an unfamiliar word in a text, do you skip it and move on? Practice using context clues to identify words you don't know with a thorough set of language arts lessons. The resource reinforces close reading and critical...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
Curated OER
Word Association Poetry with Visual Thesaurus (or Not)
Young poets get inspiration and guidance for making word association poems with the Visual Thesaurus. Your class could complete this project with nothing more than a pencil and paper as well. A nice one-off for a substitute during your...
Curated OER
Word Roots 7: Spect, Sta, Vert Intermediate-Crossword
Given the clues, can you complete the crossword puzzle for words containing the Latin roots spect, sta, and vert? No word list is given, but using the answer sheet, you can provide your class with the list of words to choose from. This...
Curated OER
Word Roots 6: Plic, Fac-fic, Cogn Beginner Puzzle 1
Four vocabulary hints are given based on the Latin roots pli and plo. The roots are written in; can you fill in the other letters to make up the correct word? Try your hand at these questions!
Curated OER
When is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words
Act and act, address and address...there are so many words in our dictionary that can function as nouns or verbs. Start this instructional activity by having your class list as many as they possibly can. When an adequate list presents...
Central New Mexico Community College
Percent Word Problems
Take young mathematicians' understanding of percents into the real world with this series of word problems. Involving a variety of contexts from calculating scores on math tests and savings account interest, to determining sale prices...
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
Building Vocabulary: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Word roots, prefixes, and suffixes can hold the key to determining the meaning of a host of different words. Included here are five pages of prefixes, roots, and suffixes paired with their meanings and example words.
Reading Resource
Pyramid Words
Sometimes it helps struggling readers to see that all words are just letters strung together. Use a pyramid word activity to guide kids through writing out an entire word by adding one letter at a time on the spaces provided.
Curriculum Corner
Word Families
Scholars show what they know about word families with a worksheet that requires them to list as many words with a specific word ending as possible. Word families in focus are -at, -et, -ap, and -ip.
K20 LEARN
It’s All Greek to Me: Greek and Latin Roots
Ancient Greeks and Romans have contributed far more to modern culture than mythic heroes and stunning architecture. Greek and Latin roots are the foundation of many English words. Middle schoolers engage in an activity that asks them to...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Q Word Sentences
Q words don't have to be quizzical! Young learners identify words that begin with the letter Q using this literacy worksheet by cutting and pasting Q word images, and then writing the word by the image.
Sight Word Games
Sight Word Worksheet
Mastering sight words is an important step in learning to read. Use this worksheet to help your pupils practice all of their sight words. Kids trace the word, say it out loud, write it a few times, use it in a sentence, and draw a...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: P Words
From paperclips to pencils and pigs, your young learners will have a party identifying words that begin with the letter P! They begin by cutting and pasting images of those words to a worksheet, and then practice writing capital and...
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Short /u/ Sound Words
From hugs to the sun, you can find many great words with the short /u/ sound! Your youngsters will do just that with this worksheet, in which they identify words with the short /u/ sound from a selection of provided images, and then...
PBS
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat: Flash Card Games
Expand the vocabulary of young readers with this series of five activities based the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. From playing bingo to group storytelling, a variety of different approaches are...
Education.com
Back-to-School Word Search
Find the school supplies in a fun back-to-school word search. Using the word bank below, look for words such as backpack, glue, and stapler.
University of Iowa
Reading Racetrack Sight Word Activity
Vroom! Get your learners reading as fast as race cars with an engaging Dolch sight words. As class members read the assigned words, they move along a race track to mark their progress.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: M Words
Your munchkins will be merry for M words! Early readers cut and paste six images of words that begin with the letter M, and then practice writing an upper- and lower-case M at the bottom of the activity.
Curated OER
Simplify Ratio: Word Problems
Use this story problems about ratio instructional activity to have learners read word problems with given ratios and find the designated numbers or distances. They solve four problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Use Square Roots to Solve Quadratic Equations: Plus or Minus
Get two answers from a single equation. Pupils use the interactive to take the square root of nine and see the graphical representation of the two solutions. Individuals realize that solutions to quadratic equations that are solved by...
Curated OER
Whirl Your Word Wheelie Lesson Plan
Have your class create a word recognition wheelie. They choose a letter, and brainstorm several words that begin with that letter. They make a wheelie by writing the words and drawing pictures on a circular piece of cardboard which is...
Curated OER
First Word: Book
Help your young learners recognize their first words! They'll see a picture of the word, what the written word looks like, and learn how to make the letters. This worksheet focuses on the word book!
Curated OER
Parrot in the Oven: Word Tree - Bonsai or Banyan
What fun! As part of a vocabulary exercise designed for Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida readers create word trees with the trunk representing the root word and the branches representing prefixes that can be added to the...
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