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My Spanish English Picture Dictionary
A bilingual picture dictionary with a sample of useful words. Good for students learning Spanish or for Spanish-speaking English language learners who want to practice English vocabulary.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words
This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.
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Education Galaxy: Picture Dictionary
Test your picture dictionary skills by playing these games!
CommonLit
Common Lit: I Practiced
A learning module that begins with the poem "I Practiced" by JonArno Lawson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: To Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice
A learning module that begins with "To Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice" by Richard Allen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Interactive Math Dictionary
Each term of Intermath's interactive math dictionary contains a description and links to related terms, everyday examples, interactive checkpoint, more information, and challenges located in the left-hand column of the page. This...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and includes...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers: English Portuguese Picture Dictionary
This is a great tool for visual learners and students of English and/or Portuguese. The site features pictures and illustrations--great sample vocabulary words--for a letter of the alphabet. Some words also include labeling activity...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers: English Portuguese Picture Dictionary
This is a great tool for visual learners and students of English and/or Portuguese. The site features pictures and illustrations--great sample vocabulary words--for a letter of the alphabet. Some words also include labeling activity...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesaurus
Learn about different reference materials such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri to help you learn meanings of words, pronunciation, or parts of speech. View a short lesson then practice using Game Mode or Test Mode.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Confused and Unfamiliar Words
This article provides tips for teaching confused and unfamiliar words to students. These include being familiar with the words, using pictures to visualize the words, and practicing.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Possessive Pronouns: Practice Sheets
Two practice sheets asking learners to choose the correct possessive pronoun to complete each sentence.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Using the Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to teach dictionary skills to second and third grade students. It has a lot of practice opportunities built in and an Activote quiz. It was designed to use over several days.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Kids About Reflective Writing
This site offers ideas to encourage children to practice reflective writing and tips for teachers to teach it.
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Anglomaniacy: Feelings Dictionary
In this feelings dictionary entry, students click on one of the frogs with an expression on his face; the feeling is stated and a definition is shown. There are also flashcards with the same frog pictures so they can practice learning...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 8th Grade
This article focuses on spelling in the 8th grade including applying standard English conventions to unfamiliar words, how to practice spelling words, and a link to 8th-grade sight words.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Interjections Worksheet
Learn about interjections and how to punctuate them, and then practice with some example sentences.
Love To Know Media
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;...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Hear It Said Out Loud
This video lesson focuses on the strategy of hearing unfamiliar vocabulary said aloud. The advantages of hearing it said aloud include activating prior knowledge and the brain remembering it better. It offers ways to learn the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding New Vocabulary Within Context
This lesson focuses on ways to understand new vocabulary words in context. It provides an introduction with examples, information about how our language changes and how words get into the dictionary, and how to look outside the word to...