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Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary
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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Your Dictionary: Grammar Games for Kids
This article explains some games that can be used to help students learn grammar and vocabulary while having fun. These include Grandmother's Cat and Invisible Grammar Guy.
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Your Dictionary: Rhyming Word Games
This article explains that rhyming words help children learn to spell. It describes how to play three different rhyming word games: Disappearing Rhyme Man, Rhyme that Word, and Rhyme Hunt.
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Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
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Your Dictionary: Talk Like Shakespeare
This article discusses people wanting to talk like Shakespeare and offers suggestions for ways to use Shakespeare's language in quotes, vocabulary, in party games, etc. The official Talk Like Shakespeare Day is April 23rd, Shakespeare's...
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Your Dictionary: Thanksgiving Word Games
This article focuses on Thanksgiving Day word games; it includes a list of Thanksgiving words and ideas to generate more of them and explains some word games like Turkey on the Table.
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Your Dictionary: Valentine's Day Word Games
This article focuses on Valentine's Day word games including providing a word list for Valentine's Day, and suggesting activities such as writing love letters and playing Valentine charades.
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Your Dictionary: Vocabulary Games to Play in Groups
This article focuses on board games played in groups that can improve vocabulary including Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories, Taboo, and Random Words.
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Your Dictionary: Winter Word Games
This article discusses winter word games including Melting Snowman, Draw It, and Password.
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Your Dictionary: Word Jumble Solver
This article offers tips for unscrambling words.
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Your Dictionary: 4th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on the grammar of 4th grade including the beginning of more adult conversation, a grammar review from previous grades, more irregular verbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and improved sentence structure.
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Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Grammar
This article focuses on the skills 2nd graders begin to learn including increased vocabulary, context clues, spelling patterns, tone and rhythm, punctuation, and language development.
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Your Dictionary: 3rd Grade Grammar
This article focuses on the grammar and punctuation that third graders need to learn including the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, and prepositions), punctuation marks (question mark, exclamation points, and periods), and the...
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Your Dictionary: 5th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on the grammar learned in the 5th grade including writing narrative paragraphs, homonyms, synonyms, and irregular plurals.
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Your Dictionary: 6th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on grammar generally taught in 6th grade including more complicated reading material; roots, prefixes, and suffixes; and subjective and objective pronouns.
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Your Dictionary: 7th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on 7th-grade grammar which requires having a greater understanding of the grammar learned previously and using the parts together. This includes understanding the parts of speech, pronouns, clauses, and punctuation;...
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Your Dictionary: 9th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on 9th-grade grammar including the expectation for good grammar skills in all subjects. Things like run-on sentences and fragments are no longer tolerated.
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Your Dictionary: Classroom Rebuses
This article discusses the use of rebus (combination of pictures and words) puzzles and stories in the classroom; it also supplies a list of online sources for rebus puzzles and stories.
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Your Dictionary: Grammar Identify Objects
This article focuses on identifying objects in sentences including direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Examples of each are provided.
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Your Dictionary: High School English Literary Terms
This article focuses on a variety of key literary terms used in high school English including their definitions. These terms include flashback, genre, irony, parody, satire, setting, subplot, tone, and symbol.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson on Teaching Compound Words
This lesson focuses on teaching compound words and is specifically designed for second grade; however, it could be adjusted for other grades.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans on Writing Short Stories
This lesson focuses on teacher preparation of lesson plans before attempting to teach students to write short stories. It includes questions to ask yourself, ideas for activities, and a sample lesson plan.
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Your Dictionary: Reflective Journal Writing Tips for Students
This site focuses on reflective journal writing including the benefits to students, ways to deal with writer's block, and tips for journal writing.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Essay Writing in Secondary Schools
This site focuses on teaching essay writing to high school students including the basic five-paragaph essay, tips for teaching essay writing, and examples of guides.