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James and The Giant Peach Vocabulary Building Activities
Reading literature is one of the best ways for kids to build a strong vocabulary while honing in on their comprehension skills. These vocabulary activities go along with the wonderful book, James and the Giant Peach. The children will...
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Academic Vocabulary Building Activities
Suggestions for using Roberto Marzano's six-step approach to academic vocabulary instruction are detailed in a packet that includes graphic organizers, worksheets, and activities.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity...
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Vocabulary Building Activity
The four worksheets here are provided to introduce your learners to new vocabulary on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each list contains seven vocabulary words focused on a specfic vowel pair. First the learner hears the word,...
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In these vocabulary building worksheets, students complete several activities to help them learn how to spell and use the words mail, gain, contains, fair, daily, airline, and maintain.
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Vocabulary Building Activity- Short E Words
In this vocabulary building instructional activity, students study 6 short E words. Students unscramble the words and use each in a sentence.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary building activity, students write a set of daily vocabulary words as teacher calls them out, match scrambled letters with the words, and write sentences using at least 7 of the new words.
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Vocabulary Building
A fabulous language arts lesson has readers focus on the vocabulary in the key words, expand and build new vocabulary, and practice three grammar concepts. They recognize key words as they relate to communicating at work. Pupils build...
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Building Brilliant Bar Graphs
Everything you need for a mini-unit on bar graphs is included in this lesson plan! It outlines three lessons and includes worksheets. Learners taste pretzels, shoot baskets (switching off hands), and grab candy, graphing results...
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Build a High Dive
Can't build a cantilever? You'll be able to after a hands-on, constructive activity. Young engineers build cantilevers out of straws and tape. The finished products must be able to hang off a table as far as possible.
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Vocabulary Building Activities
In these four building vocabulary worksheets, students view vocabulary word lists, use definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using each vocabulary word. Students write twenty-one answers per activity.
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Building a Skyscraper
Creating buildings that reach hundreds of feet into the sky is no easy task. The third instructional activity in this series begins with four activities that engage young architects in exploring the major challenges that are faced when...
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle: Magic Square Vocabulary
After reading chapter one of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, take part in a magic square vocabulary activity in which scholars match the term with its definition and insert its corresponding number in to the magic square...
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Short a
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students examine the words damp, match, track, trap, pattern, insects, and travel. Students use the words in a memory activity, a word scramble activity, and a sentence writing activity.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: Words That End in Y
In this words that end in Y vocabulary activity, students study 6 words before taking a spelling test on them. Students unscramble the words and use them in a sentence.
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Native American Vocabulary
If your class is learning about Native American culture or life, a vocabulary sheet might come in handy. There are 12 terms, each with a full definition included. Terms include buffalo, tepee, hogan, wampum, prairie, tribe, myth, clan,...
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Build a Bobsled Racer
Host a design challenge of Olympic proportion! Junior engineers build their own bobsleds using simple materials. The activity focuses on kinetic and potential energy and how the center of mass affects motion on a downhill track....
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Word-building
Practice changing verb tenses and adverbs with a learning exercise on vocabulary. A word bank at the top of the page instructs third and fourth graders to add -ing, -s, and -ful to different words. Great for reinforcing vocabulary rules!...
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Vocabulary Building Activity
For this vocabulary worksheet, students write the new words as "definition clues" are given by the teacher, unscramble the new words, and use words in sentences that show meaning. Worksheet has 4 sets of 7 words each, same activities for...
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Vocabulary Building Activity - ar, or, er, ir, ur Words
In this vocabulary building learning exercise, students write a list of 7 ar, or, er, ir, and ur words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and write sentences using each one. They work with words such as morning,...
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn 6 vocabulary words, each has the long o sound. First they practice writing each word, then they complete a word scramble and finally they write sentences with the vocabulary words. There is a...
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students learn 6 vocabulary words, each has the "ow" sound. First they practice writing each word, then they complete a word scramble and finally they write sentences with the vocabulary words....
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn 6 vocabulary words, each has the by, ny, ry or sy sound. First they practice writing each word, then they complete a word scramble and finally they write sentences with the vocabulary words....
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn 6 vocabulary words, each has the dy, py, ry or ny sound. First they practice writing each word, then they complete a word scramble and finally they write sentences with the vocabulary words....