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Free Phonics Lessons: Lesson 58: Digraphs: /Ph/ and /Gh/
Ready-to-print phonics worksheet on the digraphs "ph" and "gh." Includes information on the digraphs, word lists, sentences using words in context, and opportunities for students to write spelling words and original sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
In this practice lesson, which focuses on applying word strategies to understand the text, students will sample a classic story of transformation, a transformation from good to bad and back again. This transformation story has become a...
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Wisewire: Grade 3 Playlist: Identifying Real Life Connections Between Words
Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Phillis Wheatley
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a lesson on Phillis Wheatley, using context clues and root words to figure out the poetry, as well as journaling to defend her as a poet and activist.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Ii Reading)
In this lesson, you will focus on English and Spanish cognates. You will learn tips for identifying cognates, (words from other languages that have similar spellings, pronunciations, and meanings) and for using cognates to improve your...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Proper Noun Race
During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Denotation
This lesson explains how to determine the denotation of words; it defines denotation and offers a plan of action: look up the word in the dictionary, read all meanings paying attention to parts of speech, and compare each of these...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocab Tip: Create a Sentence
This video lesson provides a tip to learn new vocabulary. Look up the word in online dictionary, and then create a short sentence using the word including context clues and a familiar topic. Real Player is required.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)
In this lesson you'll learn about different types of cognates, words that sound or look alike from one language to the next. You'll learn how leveraging cognate knowledge helps you figure out unfamiliar words in English. When you combine...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Web Resources for 3 5 Reading and Language Intervention
Tons of online resources for reading and language skills compiled nicely into a student-friendly SMART Notebook file.
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit focused on students making predictions using details from the text found in Marvin and the Meanest Girl by Suzy Kline, and making predictions within a historical context in the book...
Read Works
Read Works: A Wrinkle in Time 6th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks Unit engages students in a deep study of Madeleine L'Engle's science fiction work, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will investigate the following topics: the book's theme, the science fiction...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
Students practice with words and develop both denotative and contextual knowledge through two agents-purposeful sequencing of steps and collaboration with peers.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
Lessons on roots and affixes, denotation and connotation, context clues, origins and meanings of foreign words, cognates, and reference materials help determine word meanings. These lessons told you HOW to use these word discovery tools....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Around an Unknown Vocabulary Word: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial lesson, students are encouraged to never completely skip an unknown word. The strategies of using context around the word, sounding out the word, looking for familiar words parts, and getting a dictionary are...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Identifying Connected Words
This lesson explains how to identify connected words when determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Hubbard's Cupboard: The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Reading Exercises Science
An interactive exercise for students to use while developing an understanding of how to read scientific informational texts. The text is presented one paragraph at a time and difficult vocabulary words are defined as footnotes. Then...
TES Global
Blendspace: Multiple Meaning Words Pt.2
A six-part learning module with links to texts, and image, and videos about multiple meaning words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Oral Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will use standard proofreading symbols to edit a given manuscript. Students will suggest definitions of vocabulary words based on context clues.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dragon in the Rocks
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is used as students read the story Dragon in the Rocks from the Scholastic Literacy Place series. There is a lesson on closed syllables, context clues, and identifying plot and setting.
TES Global
Blendspace: Prefixes & Suffixes
An eleven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites about prefixes and suffixes.