Promote clothing identification, body part identification, and dressing skills acquisition with a fun and lively game. Each child takes turns grabbing a clothing item from the central clothing box. As he puts the item on, he sings,...

While playing a long-term game of Goal-O Bingo, your class will practice replacing unkind words with kind ones. First, read Casey and Amazing Giant Green Shirt by Margaret Ross. Then have your class write down 25 goals they would...

Finding engaging ways to help your middle schoolers build their vocabulary is not easy to do. The lesson presented here offers a great way to motivate them to build vocabulary by making it into a game. Teams of pupils use a dictionary...

Play a vocabulary game with words from an article about Savion Glover's contribution to the film "Happy Feet." Then, small groups of students design and create original movie advertisements using vivid vocabulary to give Glover the...

Students explore Latin and Greek roots. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students create a board game featuring Greek and Latin roots.

Middle schoolers play vocabulary game in which they create riddles and answers.

For this language arts worksheet, learners examine 10 word puzzles. Students work out the clues to reveal some well known words and phrases. Example: GSGE (scrambled eggs)

In this language arts worksheet, students investigate if words have positive or negative connotations. Students analyze a list of 20 words and mark them with a P or N according to whether they are positive or negative.

In this language arts worksheet, learners discover that some words can be used as both nouns and verbs. Students look at 10 words and write sentences using them as both nouns and verbs. Example: smell

In this language arts worksheet, students demonstrate Internet or library research skills by finding out the names of 15 phobias. Example: fear of men with beards (pogonophobia).

In this language arts learning exercise, students analyze 40 adjectives and generate the comparative and superlative forms to fill out this chart. Example: rough (rougher, roughest)

Young scholars complete an online study of art websites. For this art and technology lesson, students explore the links and try the activities to learn about art online.

In this interactive crossword worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with forty clues. Students are given the definition of words and must come up with the correct word to fill in. Example words include: glove, mutual, and launch.

An interesting series of puzzles and word games are available in this multi-page collection, which focuses on coal. Learners practice math and language arts skills as they solve the puzzles, and learn many facts about coal at the same time.

There's a high likelihood for learner success in this set of probability problems and activities. From support activities that walk learners through joint and compound probabilities through the cumulative activity of planning to win...

A reading of What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? provides an opportunity for class members to practice paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources. An exercise on how to avoid plagiarizing is also included. 

Sixth graders discover the exploration of the United States by participating in a class activity.  For this U.S. History lesson, 6th graders research the Lewis and Clark expedition and participate in a game of Jeopardy based on the...

In this online interactive Kentucky activity, students examine 20 state-related words in a word bank. Students use the word bank to unscramble 20 sets of letters. This activity may also be printed for classroom use.

Middle schoolers, working in groups, make as many words as possible in a given time, using flash cards that contain prefixes, words, and definitions. They chose group roles and participate in a numbers of time rounds of this activities.

In this Middle Ages vocabulary terms worksheet, students participate in a game that deals with four game cards and the unscrambling of letters to create Middle Ages terms of interest.

Students participate in a game that promotes group unity while spelling words with letter cards.  In this teamwork lesson, students have to work together to win the game, but may find it hard to do so without making a lot of...

Students complete verbal analogies by playing a group game.

Students use structural analysis and context clues to determine meanings of words. They play a game to decode, read, and comprehend written text . They treat others with kindness and fairness and include others in learning and play...