If used in a high school English class, this series of slides identifying vocabulary words found in the short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan would be useful. The presentation focuses on three words, prodigy, indignity, and discordant. It...

Meant as a short review of five vocabulary words, this series of slides could be used as a way to go over the appropriate way to read a dictionary entry. The words featured include jaundice, corpulent, ostentatious, bourgeois, auspicious.

In this picture dictionary worksheet, learners test their vocabulary skills in a picture dictionary vocabulary worksheet. Students answer 20 exercises.

When is a cow not a cow? When, as a homograph, it is used as a verb to mean to frighten with threats, of course. Studying antonyms is a great way to increase vocabulary and the 10 questions on this antonym quiz will challenge your middle...

Increase your fourth graders' vocabulary with this worksheet. A Cloze passage about a toy policeman without a nose prompts young readers to fill in fifteen blank spaces with words from a word bank. This activity could be a good quiz or...

After thoroughly examining the purposes and techniques of propaganda, your class will create and curate a Propaganda Museum to display and deconstruct original works of propaganda. Materials include propaganda techniques vocabulary, a...

You want your class to meet all of the Common Core standards, and here is one way to tackle the first speaking and listening standard. Given a theme to focus on from "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy, small groups come up...

Looking for some additional materials for Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"? Included in a 14-page packet are an anticipation guide, a vocabulary list, exercise, and quiz, a list of literary terms, and an essay assignment with pre-writing...

Continue your study of the short story with the next lesson in this fourteen-lesson series. After wrapping up a study of "Hills Like White Elephants" through a quiz and discussion of the setting, learners are introduced to the final...

In this confusing words worksheet, students complete an online quiz that helps them learn to spell confusing words. Students learn their score at the end of the quiz.

In this language arts instructional activity, students complete a 5 question grammar quiz in which they choose the phrase which best completes the conditional "if" statement. This is intended for ESL students.

For this slang worksheet, students identify the slang word related to sports, and then select the best answer to complete the given sentence that defines the word. There are 10 exercises like this for students to complete.

In this matching phrases with synonymous phrases worksheet, learners match each numbered expression with a synonymous expression in a list. Students match 20 phrases.

In this online/interactive idiom usage worksheet, students read idiom phrases and sentences using them and then choose the phrases that best explain the idioms. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and click the "Click for answer"...

For this word sound worksheet, students read 10 clues and choose the correct long I sound word from the word bank to match each clue.

In this online/interactive recognizing idioms activity, students read idioms about the body in isolation and in context to find their meanings. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers, click the "Answer" button and the "More about...

In this online/interactive recognizing idioms worksheet, students read idioms in isolation and phrases and choose the best explanations of them. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and click on the buttons "Click for answer" and...

A standard vocabulary test. Learners must match 12 vocabulary words with the letter that represents the correct definition for that word. All vocabulary words in this resource contain the word roots SPECT, STA or VERT. Vocabulary terms...

A typical vocabualry quiz, pupils must match 12 vocabulary words with the letter that represents the correct definition of that word to complete this exercise. All vocabualry words in this resource contain the word roots SPECT, STA or...

Vocabulary sleuths pair words from Latin roots cern, jur, and leg with their definitions in this interactive online matching exercise. Site has other activities for these and more Latin roots as well as word lists at beginner,...

Learners are given 6 vocabulary words containing the roots GRAD, MOT and CAD as well as a word bank of 6 corresponding synonyms and antonyms. To complete this exercise, they must plug-in the correct synonym and antonym for each...

Review the definitions of 12 vocabulary words containing the word roots GRAD, MOT or CAD with this online and interactive worksheet. Learners match up each vocabulary word with its definition and then receive immediate feedback by...

Learners are provided with 12 vocabulary words, all of which contain the word roots SPECT, STA or VERT, and their corresponding definitions. They must then match the appropriate definition to each word. This is a beginner level...

In this vocabulary and story sequencing learning exercise based on Norman Bridwell's Clifford at the Circus, students are asked to unscramble vocabulary words, perform a vocabulary word search, complete sentences, sequence story events,...