Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
TES Global
Tes: Vocabulary Sorting Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling and Vocabulary Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] Various activities to build spelling and vocabulary comprehension. Includes unscrambling spelling words, matching vocabulary with definition, context sentences, ABC order, word sort, and word order.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 1
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this sorting game.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 2
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 3
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 4
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Concept Sorts
A concept sort is a strategy used to introduce students to the vocabulary of a new topic or book. Teachers provide students with a list of terms or concepts from reading material. Students place words into different categories based on...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: By Car, Train, or Bus! The Sounds of Language on the Go
Come and check out this awesome pre-reading resource. This site offers examples of simple word games you can play with kids to increase their ability to recognize and use letters and sounds. Try these games the next time you're in the...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Synonym Antonym Connections
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards by synonyms and antonyms. Materials are included.
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Other
Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Word Slamm
Race against the clock to create words by catching, sorting, and organizing letters.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Real and Make Believe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan where students learn the difference between real and make-believe and practice sorting details into the two categories. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Make It Meaningful
A lesson plan in which students sort words based on the meanings of their affixes: before, one who, state or qualify of, and wrongly. Materials are included.
Other
Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Two Voices of the Ow Spelling Pattern
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.