Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...

Develop better vocabulary and dictionary skills while playing this fun dictionary game with young scholars in small groups. Click on the video link to watch the game being played in a classroom. L.9-10.4c References

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will recognize the functions of dictionaries and the types of information available in dictionaries used in schools. They will learn the differences between dictionaries and thesauruses....

A dictionary is not the only way to figure out the meaning of new words. Readers also can look for familiar word parts. These word parts might appear in other words that readers already know. By looking for familiar word parts, including...

A learning module that begins with "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...

View a lesson on using dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meaning of words. Test your skills using Test Mode or Game Mode.

Learn about different reference materials such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri to help you learn meanings of words, pronunciation, or parts of speech. View a short lesson then practice using Game Mode or Test Mode.

Listed alphabetically, these commonly misspelled words often find their way into our writing! Here are the correct spellings, with brief tips for remembering how to write these words correctly. In addition, use the links of the left to...

This instructional activity focuses on increasing your vocabulary including using context clues, dictionaries, and your working vocabulary. It also offers two videos with strategies for enhancing your vocabulary.

English and Dutch students can begin to build a basic vocabulary by using this picture dictionary. Students learn words by clicking on different letters and seeing pictures of those words. Easy site to use. If entry word is hot linked,...

After studying dictionary entries including structure and writing style, create unlikely dictionary entries for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the button on the generator to get a few ideas. Do your best to...

This is a dictionary entry explaining how to use affect and effect using comic pictures.

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...

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.

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...

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

This article focuses on exercises for teaching compound words including compound word exercises, a list of root words to create many different compound words, links to compound word games, and interactive online games.

This article discusses the use of rebus (combination of pictures and words) puzzles and stories in the classroom; it also supplies a list of online sources for rebus puzzles and stories.

This lesson focuses on strategies to retain new words such as reading voraciously, use a good dictionary and thesaurus, use new words, and learn a new word every day. It also provides an annotated biography of resource material.

A quite extensive glossary of poetic terms, using examples primarily from British poetry. Terms range from "abecedarian poem" to "zeugma" and very little is left out in between.

This lesson focuses on teacher preparation of lesson plans before attempting to teach students to write short stories. It includes questions to ask yourself, ideas for activities, and a sample lesson plan.

This graphic organizer can help students as they explore new vocabulary words. It offers a place for a dictionary definition, as well as a place to practice using the word in a sentence.

Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...

In a given text, words and phrases do not appear in isolation but are embedded in the context of a narrative, an argument, an explanation, and so on. Accordingly, clarifying meaning questions test your ability to identify contextually...