Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.2c: Link Ideas Within Categories of Information
Links to 4 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2c: Link ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., example, also, because).
Indiana University
Indiana University East: Writing Center: Transitions: Understanding Signal Words
This resource page provides nine lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers words that show time, addition, contrast, comparison, illustration, location, cause and effect, conclusion or summary, and emphasis or clarification.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.4.4: Produce Clear Writing to Task, Purpose, Audience
Links to 89 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.4: Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
Education.com
Education.com: W.4.3.e Worksheets: Provide a Conclusion for a Narrative
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 7 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.3.E: Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Education.com
Education.com: L.4.3.a Worksheets: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 16 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.3.A: Choose Words and Phrases to Convey Ideas.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Phrases: Fluent Phrasing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students work together to read segmented sentences out loud. Printable materials are provided.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Preview Vocabulary Words [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about previewing vocabulary words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the previewing of vocabulary, find research that supports the previewing of vocabulary, and find...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Flip Books and Story Boards
While this lesson is designed to aid in communications technology, the concept and procedure of the lesson can be readily used in any class. The main concept taught is organization and developing chronological order.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Funny Sequence
After a discussion and work on sequence, students will apply this knowledge to sequencing comic strips through group work.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Interjections
Fourth graders will learn about interjections and how to use them in their writing.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word O Matic
Students make words, including those with variant correspondences, by using letter cards.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Word Hunts
Word Hunts are used to enhance students' vocabulary growth. Teachers ask students to look for words and patterns in reading materials based upon selected features. Word Hunts focus on the structure and meaning of words by turning...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write Your Own Flight Story
Online writing prompt for young journalists to-be. Excellent for diagnostic or even more advanced teaching of journalism.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Fluent: Word Strips
Race against the clock to move through columns and create word with four letters.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Word Slamm
Race against the clock to create words by catching, sorting, and organizing letters.
abcteach
Abcteach: Student Writing Checklist
Excellent printable writing checklist that helps students proofread their pieces and pay attention to elements of strong writing.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Quiz Machine: Identify the Parts of Speech
An interactive exercise where students read ten sentences and identify the part of speech of the word in capitalized text in each sentence. Score is tallied along the way, and the percentage score as well as the completion time is...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Unscramble
A game where students practice reading skills by listening to a sentence and then dropping words into the correct order to form that sentence. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using knowledge of geometric shapes. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 2
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word Sentences 3
Fill in the blank for each sentence by using context clues. A score is tallied and displayed after ten sentences have been completed.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals
Students type a sentence for each of twenty different plural words. When finished, they can create a PDF of their sentences and print them out to share.