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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Defining Depictions

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
A picture is worth a thousand words! Young learners use the included templates to demonstrate their understanding of target vocabulary by creating pictures that depict their meaning.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Undercover Meanings

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Support young scholars with studying new vocabulary using this foldable resource. By cutting and folding the included template, learners can record definitions, examples, and a sentence for four different words.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Dictionary Digs

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Young scholars dig through dictionaries to uncover the wealth of information they provide. Using the included graphic organizer, children learn about target words by finding their parts of speech, pronunciation, definition, synonyms, and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Root Words Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
Explore the parts of words! Fourth and fifth graders study root words with this activity. They combine words with a given prefix and root word, like combat. There are 13 words to combine! 
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Word Clues

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Young learners develop a deeper understanding of target vocabulary. In pairs, pupils independently complete a series of word clue cards, asking them to find information about key terms, including their definitions, synonyms, antonyms,...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning, All For One

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Given a deck of cards with different words printed, pairs draw cards and work together to locate definitions for each multiple-meaning word. Learners complete a worksheet that challenges them to write the word, two of its definitions,...
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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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Worksheet
Curated OER

English Skills Assignment 6.205

For Students 5th - 6th
Study words and word choice with this resource. Although the presentation is overwhelming, several topics are covered here. Alliteration, root words, parts of speech, and word meanings are just some of the topics! There's also a...
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National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition

Building Vocabulary: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

For Teachers 3rd - 10th Standards
Word roots, prefixes, and suffixes can hold the key to determining the meaning of a host of different words. Included here are five pages of prefixes, roots, and suffixes paired with their meanings and example words.
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Handout
Curriculum Corner

Root Words

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Ten pages offer useful information and five activities designed to reinforce the concept of root words. Scholars make a root word booklet, partake in a matching activity that challenges them to match root words to their meaning, record...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 4th - 5th
In this word meanings worksheet, students read four text selections utilizing context clues to determine which multiple choice answer correctly states the meanings of each underlined word.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Meaning: Know or No

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Activate the prior knowledge of young scholars as they expand their vocabulary with this language arts activity. Given a deck of cards containing new vocabulary words, learners sort them into four categories, from Don't know the meaning...
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Worksheet
Tri-Valley Local Schools

Commonly Confused Words

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Who gave you grammar homework? Or is it whom? Clarify the meanings of several commonly confused words, including affect and effect, among and between, and then and than with a handout and grammar practice activity.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Beyond the Dictionary: Meaningful Word Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Engaging lesson and activity ideas that grow pupils' word knowledge in all content areas.
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Printables
PB Works

The Cay Word Wall

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Support your learners as they read The Cay by Theodore Taylor with a word wall. This resource includes 50 words from the book. All the words are printed in large font, and some of the words are paired with images.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Synonyms and Antonyms

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Mix up your writing lessons by having kids look at recent newspaper articles instead of their own work. They work in pairs and rewrite sports news articles using synonyms and antonyms for a set number of words. Then they share their work...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Word Analysis, Word-by-Word

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Scholars identify word relationships, categorize words, and identify similarities and differences between word meanings.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Modals and Their Meaning in Context

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
By focusing on an oil-related theme, learners answer questions using context clues. They assign meaning to each highlighted modal in an example sentence from a word bank of choices. (Examples of meaning choices include impossibility...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Spelling Root Words

For Students 4th - 6th
After knowing the root word, can your learner identify various words that use the root word, depending on the sentences provided? Learners use context clues to complete the blanks for nine questions. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Meanings From Context

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this context clues instructional activity, 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...
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PPT
Curated OER

Confused and Misused Words and Phases

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This grammar lesson will definitely help your students ace the next skills evaluation. Provided are several examples of words that are commonly misused, confused, or misspelled. Five different strategies are given to help students avoid...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Rooting for Meaning!

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Scholars work with root and meaning cards to build vocabulary skills. Playing with a partner, learners read a root, locate its meaning, and cover it with a counter. The first player to cover their board wins.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Vocabulary Morphemic Elements: Word Dissect

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Assist pupils as they learn to separate base words and affixes and combine them to determine the meaning of words. Partners practice with cards that include words with affixes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Square: Ender's Game

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Ansible. Hegemony. Candor. Readers of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game create word squares for vocabulary words drawn from this award-winning science fiction novel.

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