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Word Roots 5: Nat, Tract, Sequ Beginner Fill-in-the-Blank
Ask your class to complete this activity to help them develop their vocabulary. Learners are given a word bank, word root information, and a series of 12 sentences to complete using the given words. They must use context clues and any...
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Middle School Level Vocabulary Matching Words 2
Help your high schoolers prepare for upcoming state testing by developing their vocabulary skills. There are 15 matching questions provided, and example words include ordeal, orb, and tactile.
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Romeo and Juliet List 3 Vocabulary
Provided here is the third list of many for Romeo and Juliet. Twenty new vocabulary terms are introduced like masque, coy, and dirge. Through short-answer questions and fill in the blanks, your readers will develop the vocabulary...
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Frankenstein List 1 Vocabulary Sheet
Frankenstein is a rich, eerie text, but only if your class can understand it! Help them develop the vocabulary necessary by providing them with this two-page sheet. Designed for the beginning part of the novel (although neither page...
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The Catcher in the Rye List 2 Worksheet
Ah, The Catcher in the Rye. As your class reads this iconic book by J.D. Salinger, provide them with some opportunities to develop their vocabulary. Twenty new words are introduced, and learners deepen their understanding through both a...
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Word Roots Lesson #2 - Focus: derm
Identifying root words and their prefixes and suffixes develops a reader's vocabulary. The focus of this quick practice opportunity is the root word derm. Prefixes and suffixes are identified, and then your charges complete two short...
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The Present Is Perfect: Using Present Perfect Tense
Your developing language users rewrite 10 sentences by changing the underlined verbs to present perfect tense verbs with one of the helping verbs: have, has, or had. Resource contains explanatory material as well as a practice worksheet.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Theme of Exploration
Guide your learners to develop themes in Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Here is a handy resource that poses abundant higher-level thinking questions on topics in the books from...
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Word Pair Analogies 6 (high-advanced level)
Linking words together in an analogy really deepens one's understanding of the word at hand. Use the example provided to guide your advanced English speakers (both native and non-native) in this analogy practice. More than likely, your...
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Odyssey List 2 Vocab Worksheet
One of two epic poems attributed to Homer, The Odyssey is full of unfamiliar language. With this two-page worksheet, your class will study new words like victuals, forlorn, and pine. Unfortunately, the specific section these words come...
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Renaissance Music 1450 -1600
Hand it out and let them read all about the music of the Renaissance. The class will discscover basic terminology that developed during the time period, musical style, and how music was linked to the church and everyday life.
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Left to Right Kittens
Oh no! The kittens have lost their mittens! Help young learners develop fine-motor skills by drawing straight lines from three kittens to their pair of mittens. Use this to show young learners that things move left to right, just like...
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Alphabet Letters M, N, and O
Here is a classic worksheet focused on developing letter recognition and phonemic awareness. Learners will circle the beginning letter for each of nine words. The letters showcased on this page are M, N, and O.
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this worksheet. This graphic organizer has students circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the middle column,...
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Look at the...
Use an early reading worksheet to help learners illustrate and author their own books. They will cut out and assemble an eight page mini-book. On each page, they complete the sentence "Look at the " and...
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Analogy Questions
Analogies often assess vocabulary development. Use this resource as quick practice for your middle schoolers! An analogy is provided, and they must find the analogy that correctly relates. There are five questions.
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Connotation, Denotation, Explanation
Middle schoolers use this connotation and denotation worksheet to develop vocabulary skills. They take notes on the terms, study examples, and choose from pairs of words to find the more positive or negative word choice, as directed....
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Word Choice
Use vocabulary in context by choosing the correct word to complete the sentence. Briefly and accurately develop higher-level verbage. Can be used as a quiz, test, or quick exercise.
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Quiz your class with a review of the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. These reading comprehension questions cover a breadth of ideas but aren't overly detailed. Questions come from The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The...
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Supporting Opinions: Handling the End of a Friendship
Four thought-provoking questions encourage readers to develop and support their opinions about strategies to end a friendship after exploring excerpts from a New York Times article. The reading is brief so this could be a lead-in to...
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Countering Anxiety
Strengthen life skills with practice reframing anxious thoughts. First, learners develop rational counter-statements to provided anxiety-producing thoughts. Then they extend the skill to identify and reframe anxiety-producing thoughts of...
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Hide and Seek
Why do certain animals look the way they do? It could be because they have developed camouflage. Kids can read up on camouflage and mimicry and then respond to five questions related to the content of the passage.
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Narrative Peer Editing Worksheet
Need a template for a narrative peer editing learning exercise? Reviewers use this learning exercise to record their responses to a classmate’s story, commenting on the effectiveness of the story’s introduction, conflict, character...
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Word Pair Analogies 7: High-Advanced Level (Gre)
Analogies are a great way to develop vocabulary and critical thinking skills. This resource directs learners to craft a bridge sentence that makes apparent the relationship between the first pair of words. They then search for the same...