TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Light Scavengers
In this activity, students examine various materials and investigate how they interact with light. Students use five new vocabulary words (translucent, transparent, opaque, reflection and refraction) to describe how light interacts with...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Story Race
In this lesson, students are divided into teams to use their vocabulary words in a cooperative story. Each student in the team contributes a sentence with a vocabulary word in it until all the words are included. Teams then share their...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Teaching Word Structure
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.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Basketball Vocabulary
In this 3rd-5th grade lesson, students practice their vocabulary words using a mini-basketball. Given a part of the definition, students guess the vocabulary word; if they are correct, they shoot a mini-baskeball into a net in the trash...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: What Is a Vocabulary Context Clues Lesson Plan?
This lesson plan uses Mad Libs to teach vocabulary using context clues to define unknown words.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Confused and Unfamiliar Words
This article provides tips for teaching confused and unfamiliar words to students. These include being familiar with the words, using pictures to visualize the words, and practicing.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes directions for...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Word Search
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The words are scrambled into a word search where you must find them. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Audio Word Match
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The words are then hidden on turned-down cards in a concentration-type game. As students click on cards, they both see and hear the words,...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and includes...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Contrasting Statements
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which young scholars learn to use contrasting statements within a sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching,...
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Appositives
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to use information within appositives to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension
Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Word Seek
In this lesson plan, 3rd through 5th grade students create word searches on grid paper using their spelling words; then they pass their word search to a classmate to solve it.
Other
Jefferson County School District: What Possessed You
Designed for 3rd graders, this Internet viewable slide show from Jefferson County School District introduces the rules for forming possessives and provides guided practice.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Forest Animal Vocabulary Printout
This site has printout drawings of half a dozen animals (bear, deer, worm etc.) and some related parts (claw, antlers). Provides a fill-in-the-blank format. Can also be printed with labels already filled in. Uses answers as a word bank....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading to Learn Academy, Grade 5 Additional Resources
This website provides links to teacher resources to effectively teach reading to learn skills. These include topics for all learners and ESL learners. Learning resources for Word Study and Recognition, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension,...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Magazine Hunt
In this instructional activity, students find and cut out magazine pictures that show the definition of their vocabulary words and make a collage with them.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Slap It Down
This lesson provides class practice learning the defintions for their vocabulary words. Students are divided into two teams, each team is uses a fly swatter to slap the definition or the word whichever is not given.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Nonfiction Pyramid
A printable pyramid for use with nonfiction texts while students identify the main ideas and supporting details within a text. Students also determine author's purpose and key vocabulary words. Directions on how to use this type of...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Touch and Feel Box
Students will identify objects through their sense of touch and increase vocabulary skills by using describing words. Lesson plan for K-2nd grades.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: True or False
In this lesson plan students research their new vocabulary words in small groups and determine the true definition of the word and two false defintions that are believable. Then the class comes together and each group tries to stump the...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word? Sentences
In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. Students must match each word to a sentence to complete its meaning. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.