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Vocabulary: Word Meaning, Undercover Meanings

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Support young scholars with studying new vocabulary using this foldable resource. By cutting and folding the included template, learners can record definitions, examples, and a sentence for four different words.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #107

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Young spellers practice reading and writing 12 words such as dream and magic. They use a dictionary to look up each spelling word and then write the guide words that appear on the dictionary page. Finally, they choose two of the words...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Here is a unit designed to support English language development. Scholars speak, move, and write to learn more about topics that focus on community and local concepts. The series of lessons aids to reinforce concepts...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Smart Solutions: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 6)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Smart Solutions is the theme of a unit created to meet the needs of English language earners. Through a series of lessons, scholars follow a routine—move, speak, and listen— to cover topics including stores, shops, celebrations, pets,...
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Many Uses of Plants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and discuss non-food plant products that are in common use, and mark on a world map the name of the country where the plant is grown.
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Instruments Used in Folk Music

For Students 7th - 8th
In this music learning exercise, students read short excerpts about the instruments that accompany folk music songs. They write 5-10 paragraphs about the use of the banjo and mandolin in folk music and about their differences. They read...
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Using Irregular Verbs

For Students 5th - 8th
For this grammar worksheet, students read about using regular and irregular verbs in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to solve the 22 questions on the page. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Nouns Used Correctly

For Students 8th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students change any incorrect underlined words to their correct forms on the lines provided in twenty sentences. Students place a c in the blank if the underlined word or words are used correctly.
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Compounding the Problem

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discuss the differences between a storybook and an information book. Students use various materials found in nature to make a nature collage. Students make a nature dictionary using pictures and their own definitions from the...
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Introduction to the Dictionary

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore how to use a dictionary. They discuss how the dictionary is organized and how to locate words in the dictionary and students use the dictionary to locate words.
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Dictionary Skills

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use resources such as dictionaries and glossaries correctly to build word meaning and to practice all uses of their references; students also practice alphabetical order while locating information.
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Alphabetical Order

For Teachers 2nd
Putting words is alphabetical order is a necessary skill. Use this resource to help your class learn how to put groups of words in order. This presentation could be augmented with more examples.
Interactive
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Using Colons and Semi-colons

For Students 8th - 10th
How do you know when to use a semicolon versus a colon? Middle and high schoolers choose between a colon and a semicolon to correctly punctuate sentences. They must complete 10 sentences, either electronically or on a printout.
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Dictionary Dig

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice their alphabetizing through practice with a dictionary. They use alphabetizing skills to place words with proper guide words and to look up words in a dictionary.
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School-Home Links: Dictionary Usage

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this dictionary usage worksheet students discover the meaning to a difficult word - consternation - by first guessing at the meaning and then looking up the word in a dictionary and answering several questions about the word. Parents...
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Let Me Be Your Guide - A Guided Tour of the Dictionary

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in teams, compete arranging vocabulary words into alphabetical order. They complete different worksheet activities to practice locating designated words in a dictionary.
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Using a Dictionary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this dictionary usage worksheet, students use a dictionary to make corrections in the spelling of the first set of words. Students then use a dictionary to find the meanings of the second set of words.
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Using a Dictionary- Definitions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this using a dictionary activity, students use the dictionary to look up the meanings of 5 words and choose the best definition from 4 choices.
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Dictionary Definitions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this dictionary definitions activity, students find the definition for the 6 words and then write the words into 6 original sentences.
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Using a Dictionary-Sounds and Meanings

For Students 4th - 5th
In this dictionary worksheet, students use a dictionary to find answers to five questions. Each question requires students to use either the pronunciation key or the definition.
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Using a Dictionary - Meanings

For Students 5th - 8th
In this research skills worksheet, students use a dictionary to find the meaning of words. Students answer 4 multiple choice, word definition questions.
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Using a Dictionary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this dictionary usage worksheet, students read 20 words and put them in the correct quartile. Students then use a dictionary to find definitions for the second set of words.
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Using a Dictionary - Meanings

For Students 4th - 7th
In this research skills worksheet, learners use a dictionary to look up definitions and answer the questions on the worksheet. There are 4 questions to answer.

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