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Your Dictionary: Grammar Games
This is a list of 23 links to grammar games including word scrambles, charades, word puzzles, and other games.
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Your Dictionary: Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
This is a basic crossword puzzle dictionary with an explanation of how to use it. It also offers information and a comparison of three other online crossword dictionaries that have extra features: Wordsmyth, Amo's Online Crossword Puzzle...
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Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Your Dictionary: Real Practice With Root Words
This article focuses on providing real practice with root words including defining root words, determining the prefixes and suffixes, understanding word families, and providing a worksheet with an answer key.
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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.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Writing a Movie Summary
This lesson plan focuses on teaching high school students to write a movie summary that provides a plot summary without sharing too much of the storyline but includes the following: brevity, conflict, theme, tone, and persuades others to...
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan on How to Teach Conjunctions
This lesson focuses on teaching conjunctions including activities, links to conjunction lists and online resources, and lesson plan ideas.
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Your Dictionary: Lessons About Adjectives vs. Adverbs
This site offers six fun lessons to help students learn the correct usage of adjectives and adverbs.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 8th Grade
This article offers a list of words that 8th graders should know by sight and links to several online resources for teachers including Internet4Classrooms, Puzzlemaker, Tools for Educators, and Fun With Words.
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Your Dictionary: What Are Third Grade Lessons Using Picture Books?
This article suggests uses for picture books in 3rd-grade classes including for sequencing, imagery, to determine the main idea, to create their own picture books, to create the missing connection between picture and text, and to aid...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Plural Possessives
This site focuses on teaching plural possessive nouns and pronouns including what they are and methods of teaching them including using flashcards, and plural possessive Bingo, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy.
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Your Dictionary: Christmas Words Scramble
This is a collection of Christmas word scramble activities including letter scramble, sentence scramble, and a Christmas words scramble game. Answer keys are provided.
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Your Dictionary: Games for Grammar Usage
This article discusses games for learning grammar usage including classroom games like Invisible Grammar Guy, Rhyme That Word; how teachers can make their own games using online word search and puzzle makers; and online grammar game...
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Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary
This article offers insight on how children best learn vocabulary while having fun and using a variety of both audio and visual stimulation, as well as tactile components. It offers four sample games: Prefix/Suffix Game, Vocabulary...
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Your Dictionary: Grammar Games for Kids
This article explains some games that can be used to help students learn grammar and vocabulary while having fun. These include Grandmother's Cat and Invisible Grammar Guy.
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Your Dictionary: Rhyming Word Games
This article explains that rhyming words help children learn to spell. It describes how to play three different rhyming word games: Disappearing Rhyme Man, Rhyme that Word, and Rhyme Hunt.
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Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
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Your Dictionary: Talk Like Shakespeare
This article discusses people wanting to talk like Shakespeare and offers suggestions for ways to use Shakespeare's language in quotes, vocabulary, in party games, etc. The official Talk Like Shakespeare Day is April 23rd, Shakespeare's...
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Your Dictionary: Thanksgiving Word Games
This article focuses on Thanksgiving Day word games; it includes a list of Thanksgiving words and ideas to generate more of them and explains some word games like Turkey on the Table.
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Your Dictionary: Valentine's Day Word Games
This article focuses on Valentine's Day word games including providing a word list for Valentine's Day, and suggesting activities such as writing love letters and playing Valentine charades.
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Your Dictionary: Vocabulary Games to Play in Groups
This article focuses on board games played in groups that can improve vocabulary including Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories, Taboo, and Random Words.
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Your Dictionary: Winter Word Games
This article discusses winter word games including Melting Snowman, Draw It, and Password.
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Your Dictionary: Word Jumble Solver
This article offers tips for unscrambling words.
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Your Dictionary: 4th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on the grammar of 4th grade including the beginning of more adult conversation, a grammar review from previous grades, more irregular verbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and improved sentence structure.