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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: L.3.4d: Use Glossaries or Dictionaries to Determine Meaning

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Links to 2 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4d: Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Make a Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Children will create a picture dictionary to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition and fine-motor and creative-thinking skills, and increase their awareness about informational text.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers: English Portuguese Picture Dictionary

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Little Explorers: English Portuguese Picture Dictionary

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
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Other

O*net (Occupational Info Network) Knowledge Site

For Students 9th - 10th
O*NET, replacement for the US Dictionary of Occupational Titles as well as the Directory of Occupational Titles and the Occupational Job Outlook, provides "Information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests...
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many Things for Esl Japanese Version

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: Ell Glossary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Bilingual reference resource, English/Spanish. Contains a huge range of resources for teachers and hispanic parents, including a glossary of educational terms, assessment, literacy, disabilities, and much more.
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: Ell Glossary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Bilingual reference resource, English/Spanish. Contains a huge range of resources for teachers and hispanic parents, including a glossary of educational terms, assessment, literacy, disabilities, and much more.
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BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize English: Reading

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.
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Other

Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Clues to Unknown Words Using Known Roots

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A dictionary is not the only way to figure out the meaning of new words. Readers also can look for familiar word parts. These word parts might appear in other words that readers already know. By looking for familiar word parts, including...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Kindergarten Opposites Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.
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Other

Computer Concepts: Lesson Plans: Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides many different activities and lesson plans on various computer concepts.
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Hopelink

Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Personal Vocabulary Notebook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a simple but direct approach to building your vocabulary. Keeping a special notebook of new words can increase vocabulary, assist memorization, and encourage good study and organization skills. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Shared Spelling Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for a lesson that will provide students with strategies for spelling unfamiliar words. Students are asked to use phonological awareness and visual recall, analyze alternative spellings, and use a variety of resources...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ready, Set, Research!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Rocks and Minerals Find It! Quiz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the online "Little Explorers" picture dictionary to seek answers to questions about rocks and minerals. This exercise, which promotes dictionary use, deductive reasoning, and earth science vocabulary, would work well with...
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Able Media

Classics Technology Center: Ancient Egypt

For Students 3rd - 8th
Seven teachers created activities to help enhance the study of ancient Egypt. Appropriate for a variety of levels and learning styles. Includes world wide web resources.