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Improve Your Spelling with the Visual Thesaurus

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Using Visual Thesaurus software, class members participate in a computer-based spelling bee. Then they work in groups to analyze the words and use deductive reasoning to infer spelling patterns. They then present one of their "rules" to...
Activity
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Thinking Spelling

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
An etymology resource is packed with suggestions for activities designed to build phonological, visual, morphemic, and etymological spelling skills.
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Arcademics

Spelling Bees

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A multiplayer game challenges participants to spell as many of the given words as fast they can. 
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Kid-Code: Developmentally Appropriate Spelling

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Carefully balanced, developmentally appropriate spelling lessons and expectations can keep young writers focused!
PPT
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The -igh Sound

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This presentation asks what flight, light, and fight all have in common. They all have the -igh sound or spelling pattern. Other words with the -igh sound such as fine, fly, and bite are shown because they use different letters to make...
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Spelling Patterns: Or , Oor, and Ore Words

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete word work with words that contain the /or/, /oor/, or /ore/ spelling pattern. In this spelling pattern lesson, 4th graders participate in the weekly spelling list activity in which they sort words with the given...
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Finding Rhyming Words in a French Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore rhyming in this phonemic awareness and French lesson. Listen to the poem "J'Adore la Pizza" by Karen Kransky and identify rhyming words. Compare grapheme spelling patterns with like phonemes, and sort word cards according to...
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pl- Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
Fourteen words containing the -pl spelling pattern are yours for the finding, in this spelling pattern worksheet. And don't worry an answer key is included for efficient grading.
Interactive
Arcademics

Koala Paddleboards

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A multiplayer game challenges scholars to spell words. A voice says a word then participants race to spell the word quickly. Results display a scholars' rate and accuracy.
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Irregular Spellings

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners know and apply a way of learning and remembering irregular spellings. Students show where irregular spellings can be found everywhere in our society today. Learners tie in irregular spellings to silent letters as well.
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Perfecting Plural Nouns

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...
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Word Patterns: Letter O

For Students 4th - 5th
In these word patterns worksheets, students complete the words that contain the letter O by writing the missing letter for the word on the provided lines. Students write the words boat, rock, frog, boil, coke, cold, zoo, food, book,...
Organizer
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Spelling Table

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, students use a spelling table as a reference sheet to help in spelling words with designated sounds. They see the sound, its spelling choices, and examples of words with the spelling patterns. There are no...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 7: The United States Constitution

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders delve into the United States Constitution in a unit designed to boost reading comprehension, grammar, and writing. During each lesson, scholars read through and discuss a new chapter and work with prefixes and verbs....
Interactive
Arcademics

Coconut Vowels

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholars show what they know about vowel digraphs with a quick coconut-themed learning game. Players fill in the blanks of falling coconuts to make words with a double vowel spelling pattern. 
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Vowel Lessons: To Help Improve Spelling

For Teachers K - 12th
There are a few things every good speller knows: spelling rules, vowel sounds, and word endings. Help your learner with dyslexia become a more efficient speller with a few tips from a dyslexia expert. Included in the lesson is a video,...
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University of Texas

Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Spelling List D-18

For Students 4th - 5th
in this spelling worksheet, students write each of 21 words two times. This list contains words with the edge/idge pattern, sight words, and academic vocabulary.
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Spelling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students find a strategy to help them remember spelling words.  In this spelling activity, students use memory, mnemonic devices, singing and body spelling to remember words.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 4: Silent Consonants

For Students 4th - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, learners learn to spell a list of 20 words that have silent consonants. Students write each word one time. There are at-home spelling activities listed that learners may complete.
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Home Spelling Practice: Long I, Long O

For Students 4th - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All contain the sound of long O or long I. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Plurals Assessment

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this plurals worksheet, students find the plurals for twenty words on two word searches. Each word search has ten words. A variety of spelling patterns is included such as adding es, adding s, changing f to v, and changing y to i.
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BBC

The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

For Teachers K - 5th
Over the course of six lessons, scholars try their hand at composing and dancing after a thorough examination of the famous ballet, The Nutcracker, by Tchaikovsky. Participants watch and discuss the performance of two dances, create...
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Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students arrange verb pattern cards to find words with similar endings or patterns such as ing, or the infinitive form.In this verb form lesson, students play a concentration game to find verbs with the same verb pattern. An extension...

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