Students complete a variety of activities related to the book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White. They create a comic strip based on the characters, setting, and plot of the story, and examine the author's writing process. In small groups...

Students participate in an online puzzle story. They practice notetaking skills and using adjectives and adverbs. They write a Cinderella story from a thief's point of view using idiomatic phrases. They review other English skills in...

Third graders write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it. They take pictures with a digital camera, scan pictures, and add them to a document.

Third graders practice identifying words with the short o vowel sound. They use the strategy will reading a page from The Hare and the Tortoise. They read the passage while focusing on increasing their reading fluency and practice...

Third graders use vocabulary from "If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon" to play a game.

Students label objects in their classroom based on mass and volume using the metric system. They examine the relationship between the numerical value and the corresponding metric unit.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

Understanding word structure and being able to identify root or base words, prefixes and suffixes give your student valuable vocabulary-building skills. Click on the Prefixes and Suffixes handout.

Links to 5 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,...

Create words using prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Group the words together as words are created and add them to the word bank. Add your own prefixes, suffixes, and root words to extend the activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A prefix is a group of letters that go in front of a word. Using a prefix changes the meaning of that word. This lesson will cover the following prefixes: super, sub, un, pre, uni, bi, tri.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of lessons and worksheets that help students practice determining the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word.

An eleven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites about prefixes and suffixes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop learners' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...

A lesson plan in which students match word cards with appropriate prefixes and suffixes. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which young scholars play a game by determining affixes and their meanings in order to move around the board. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which young scholars sort words based on the meanings of their affixes: before, one who, state or qualify of, and wrongly. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students add affixes to alter the meaning of words. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students practice reading a list of affixes and then time each other to see how many affixes they can read in one minute. Students repeat to work towards increased speed and accuracy. Materials are included.

This lesson focuses on using context clues within a sentences to determine the meaning of an unknown word. Additional skills of prefixes and root words are included. Answer pages are provided for each practice activity.

A lesson plan in which students sort words according to whether they have a prefix, a suffix, both, or neither. Materials are included.

Students are introduced to some essential meteorology concepts so they more fully understand the impact of meteorological activity on air pollution control and prevention. First, they develop an understanding of the magnitude and...

Tons of online resources for reading and language skills compiled nicely into a student-friendly SMART Notebook file.