Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...

Check out this extensive website focused on compound words. Find out how they are used in writing. Don't miss out on this informative site.

Tons of online resources for reading and language skills compiled nicely into a student-friendly SMART Notebook file.

This site contains a list of 14 words that contain "amor" or "philos", word roots that mean "love", in them. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce and practice the spellings, pronunciations, and meanings...

This exercise has students read a paragraph about Horace Pippin's art, find the 5 misspelled words, and type them in the boxes provided. Java is required.

Learn eight steps to help you identify unfamiliar words.

Morphology describes how words are formed from building blocks called morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Students who don't understand this structure have trouble recognizing, understanding, and spelling words. Find out...

This page explains what hyphens are, what they can do, and provides examples of their uses.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers standard scientific units of measurement.

Links to 5 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.3.4b: Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,...

BBC Skillswise offers a worksheet on suffixes for teachers and students.

A lesson plan in which students play a game by moving around the board by identifying suffixes. Materials are included.

Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!

This Skillswise site focuses on root words. Included are a video about why learning how to identify root words is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...

This site gives you the prefixes for naming polygons and polyhedra.

The metric system of measurement is explained. Particularly interesting is the table of prefixes for numbers that are exceptionally huge or small.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students review root words so they can analyze unfamiliar words and figure out the meaning without using a dictionary. In this worksheet, students will identify the root of each word...

This site provides information on various uses for the hyphen with an emphasis on dividing words at the end of a line. For additional information, click on the link "Compound Words."

This site contains information regarding the correct use of the hyphen, along with examples. L.11-12.2a Hyphens

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 22 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.4.B: Use common, grade appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as...

Learn about the different sounds in English. For adult learners.

At this website from Math2.org you will find tables with information about number words, meanings, and the symbols used to express them. At the very bottom there is also a Java Base Conversion Calculator.

A constant dilemma: ible or able? Find out when to use which.

This site contains a brief outline of the uses of the hyphen and provides examples.