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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Dictionary Cube

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Scholars work together to define words and answer questions using a dictionary cube.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Practice Book O

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Whether you need resources for reading comprehension, literary analysis, phonics, vocabulary, or text features, an extensive packet of worksheets is sure to fit your needs. Based on a fifth-grade curriculum but applicable to any level of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Sense of Homographs

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
What is a homograph? Develop your students' vocabulary with a word association tool.   Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs such as...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this word meanings worksheet, students utilize the strategy of context clues to choose the appropriate multiple choice meaning for each underlined word in four sentences. Students interact with the words thwart, expedite, resolve and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word meanings worksheet, students utilize context clues to choose the appropriate multiple choice meaning for each underlined word in four selections. Students interact with the words attenuate, gravity, cardinal and ingress.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word meanings worksheet, students utilize context clues to assist them in choosing the appropriate multiple choice meaning of each underlined word in ten passages. Students interact with skew, legitimate, manipulate and embittered.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this word meanings worksheet, students use context clues from each of five selections to choose the multiple choice word meaning for each of the following five words: chic, fortify, heinous, linchpin and lucrative.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word meanings worksheet, students practice using context clues to find the correct multiple choice meanings or synonyms for the following five words: instigate, strive, clandestine, chronic and conspicuous.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this context clues worksheet, students utilize context clues to help them choose the best meaning or synonym for each of the five highlighted words in five sentences. Students choose their answers from multiple choice answers....
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Handout
Amazon Web Services

Idiom Dictionary

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Examining idioms is a peace of cake when using this graphic organizer! Here, grammarians identify an idiom and use it in a sentence. Then they investigate its literal meaning versus its figurative meaning, and accompany each one with a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using a Dictionary--Meanings

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this meaning of words learning exercise, students utilize a dictionary to look up four words and choose through multiple choice answers the best definition for each word.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using a Dictionary--Meanings

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this using a dictionary worksheet, students utilize a dictionary to look up the meanings to four words. Students choose the best definition for each word out of a multiple choice selection and then put their answers on the lines...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Unlocking Word Meanings

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate eponyms in the English language. In this eponym lesson, 4th graders participate in a teacher led lesson on the definition of an eponym. They complete a worksheet in which they determine which eponym became part...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

All About Homophones

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Put the fun back in reading fundamentals with an interactive set of lessons about homophones. Learners of all ages explore the relationships between words that sound the same but have different meanings, and complete a variety of fun and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Practice Spelling Plurals

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review the rules for spelling plural nouns. In this plural nouns lesson, 4th graders review the six rules for making nouns plural. They apply the rules as they complete the associated worksheet.
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Worksheet
Incentive Publications

Building Proofreading Skills

For Students 3rd - 6th
Designed to build proofreading skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and language usage, as well as proofreading for clarity, transition, and order, this workbook is packed with activities for all kinds of writing.
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

Pippi Longstocking: Novel Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Have you every known someone that marches to the beat of a different drum? That is exactly what Pippi from Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking does! Scholars complete a worksheet packet as they read about Pippi's outrageous adventures....
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Lesson Plan
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EngageNY

End of Unit 2 Assessment: Working with Two Texts - Reading, Listening, Summarizing, and Synthesizing

For Teachers 4th Standards
As a summative assessment for this unit on colonial trade, fourth graders listen to and read informational texts in order to demonstrate their ability to take notes, write summaries, and draw connections. Young scholars first listen as...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What Number?

For Students 3rd - 5th
This simple activity provides a quick review of reading comprehension and vocabulary development skills. By answering the 10 multiple choice questions, learners identify the key elements of the story, and the meaning of vocabulary words.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Problem Solvers: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 4th Standards
When it comes to reading and understanding a text, sometimes readers need extra help. The third and final resource in a series of guides to accompany Theme 4: Problem Solvers provides additional activities to help struggling learners....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Decode and acquire new vocabulary! Readers use new vocabulary in their writing and use synonyms to determine meanings. Visual learners label pictures and group words together to increase understanding.
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Unit Plan
Gwinnett County Public Schools

Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
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Lesson Plan
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Core Task Project

Whatif by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
What a skillful way to incorporate Shel Silverstein, a wonderful author, into the classroom. Composed of three tasks, children are led through a series of text-dependent questions that force them to unveil the meaning of Silverstein's...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Clothes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this parts of speech online interactive worksheet, learners choose the appropriate multiple choice word to describe 9 pictures of clothing. Students type in a word to describe 3 additional pictures of clothing. Learners fill in 28...