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School-Home Links: Word Usage 2
In this word selection instructional activity, students use the words listed to complete the example sentences. Parents or guardians must sign the instructional activity.
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Who Wants to Be a Spellionaire?
Have your class practice spelling a list of challenging words, such as explanation, detention, and more. While only a quick review of the topic, this format could be replicated for use with any spelling activity. This is a great way to...
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Friendship Words
While the purpose of this resource is unclear, it could be used as a way to discuss friendship and the associated vocabulary. Learners can read and define the list of words such as considerate, generous, and unique. The presentation...
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Language in Use and Context
In this language in use and context activity, 9th graders read examples of word usage, complete 20 sentences, rewrite 10 sentences in the correct sequence and sort verbs by tense.
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Achieve, Manage and Reach Exercise
In this word usage instructional activity, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with achieve, manage, and read. Students complete 12 online exercises.
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Important, Interesting, and Serious Exercise
In this word usage instructional activity, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with the words important, interesting, and serious to complete the 15 exercises.
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Unit 6 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 5)
Acute angles, nets, and vertices are only a few terms that a set of flash cards includes. Among the 108 cards, two types are available; word cards printed in bold-faced lettering, and corresponding definition cards equipped with an...
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Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
In this pronouns and possessive adjectives instructional activity, students identify usage in sentences. In this short answer instructional activity, students write sixteen answers.
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Fourth Grade English: Their, They're, and There
While this lesson provides a great idea for an exploration, it is incomplete. Learners are asked to identify the differences between their, they're and there, and discuss homonyms, but there are not activity descriptions. This lesson...
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Usage Errors
Look at the most commonly confused words in the English language! This resource briefly explains the difference between there, they're, and their as well as too, to, and two, and finally it's and its. First, read the section entitled...
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Physical Education Word of the Week
Practice physical education vocabulary in your classroom. Working with language arts teachers, learners use dictionary skills to define and explain a word dealing with a concept in physical education. They also complete a task and have...
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Multiple Meanings and PowerPoint
Middle schoolers learn about words that have more than one meaning. They each create a PowerPoint presentation that has a word with multiple meanings at the top, then each of its definitions in the main body of the slide. They insert...
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ADd IT-- ADjectives and ADverbs
Descriptive writing is a must for students to understand. Using adverbs and adjectives, they turn simple sentences into works of art. Each simple sentence gets a descriptive make-over. This lesson suggests using Laptops and SMART board...
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Job and Work: Correct Usage
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners review the meanings of the words "job" and "work", then fill in the blanks using context clues to determine the meaning.
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Adverbs
While designed for college students, this review of adverbs could be used in a high school classroom as well. The worksheet begins with a detailed overview of adverbs which is followed by a six-question activity.
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That & What
Providing a review of that and what, this worksheet can be a quick and easy way to have learners review this concept. The ten questions in the activity can be answered either online or on a worksheet.
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Primary Grades Vocabulary Instruction With Word Wizard Dictionary
Elementary schoolers discover that the world is at their fingertips as they acquire new vocabulary. Several suggested activities and strategies are provided here, building new reading and oral vocabulary.
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Salinger and the Vocabulary of the Vernacular
Writers explore vocabulary and expressions used in the English language. They use visual word maps to become aware of the different uses of words which will allow them to more readily interpret texts. Then they listen to/read excerpts...
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Speak Write! Understanding the Hidden Meaning of Words
"Can the connotation of a word or phrase create bias or prejudice?" The activities in this SMART Board lesson plan are directed toward this question, which will be sure to incite lots of opinions and ideas. The SMART Board file guides...
Prestwick House
A Long Way Gone
The memoir A Long Way Gone tells the story of a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. A crossword puzzle helps reinforce key ideas found in the memoir. The puzzle addresses characters, key events, and other details from the...
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Word Structure-Prefix and Suffix
Students identify the common prefixes and suffixes used in the English language. They dissect a word into its various (root, prefix, suffix) parts and use a dictionary to determine the proper usage and derivation of each word part. ...
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Latin and Greek Roots Lesson Plan: Creating a Board Game
Students explore Latin and Greek roots. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students create a board game featuring Greek and Latin roots.
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Commonly Mixed Pairs of Words
In this word meanings worksheet, students practice choosing the correct word for the sentence. Students complete fifteen sentences by choosing the correct word for each sentence.
Social Media Toolbox
Social Media Usage
Is there a difference in the way organizations present news via social media and in print? The third in a series of 16 lessons from The Social Media Toolbox explores news outlets and their delivery methods. Groups follow a story for a...