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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 10 - Compound Words

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Individually, words have power, but when added together, they can take on a whole other level of meaning. Readers learn about compound words in the 10th of 17 lessons of the Word Recognition and Fluency series. A script provides guidance...
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 2 - Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Closed syllable words contain short vowel sounds. A phonics lessons introduces readers to consonant-vowel-consonant words. Guided instruction introduces the words with a series of dictation activities, and then learners practice reading...
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Study Ladder

Halloween Activities: Grades K-2nd

For Students K - 2nd
If your class is looking for word problems, reading excerpts, grammar games, and fun trivia in their trick-or-treat bags, they'll find it all and more with a Halloween-themed set of worksheets! Three pages of holiday exercises are a...
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Curated OER

Food Concentration (Matching Game)

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
In this matching activity, students are given 18 sets of cards with a full-color illustration of a fruit or vegetable, along with its name. This game could be used for oral language practice with ELL students.
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Using Plays in the Language Class

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students improve their reading and speaking skills. They experiment with language, tone of voice, body language as they write a play. They write a script to a play. They act out roles of the play.
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Connective Blockbusters

For Teachers 4th - 5th
A very clever language arts game awaits your class in this short language arts presentation. Connective words and phrases such as: so, however, unless, until, as well, and even though are on a game board. Pupils must make up a sentence...
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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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Alphabetical Order 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
If your class is working on alphabetical order, then this worksheet might be for you! Class members alphabetize 10 words, using the spaces below the words to record their responses. Make it into a game and have leaners race to the finish...
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Curated OER

Long A Word Matching Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long a word instructional activity, students cut out words with long a in them and cut out the pictures they go with, and match them together. Students match 8 words with 8 pictures.
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Long E Words Matching Game

For Students K - 2nd
For this long e words worksheet, students cut out long e words and the pictures they go with, and then match them up together. Students complete 8 matches.
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English Enhanced Scope and Sequence

Identifying Synonyms

For Teachers 2nd Standards
"Let the hunt begin!" As an introduction to synonyms, second graders generate a list of word pairs that have similar meanings. The words pairs are written on sentence strips, cut apart, shuffled, and distributed to class members who must...
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Behind the Scenes of an ESL Classroom Part One

For Teachers Higher Ed
A computer science degree, a stack of textbooks, and a room full of English language learners is sure to bring excitement to one's day.
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Melanie Giovannone

Letter-Sound Match Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Develop beginning readers' understanding of letter-sound correspondence with this fun series of cut-and-paste worksheets. With each page focusing on four specific letters, children are able to practice isolating...
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Scholastic

Step-by-Step Strategies for Teaching Expository Writing

For Teachers 4th - 9th
A carefully crafted, logically organized, 128-page packet is an excellent addition to your unit on expository writing.
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Dr. Seuss Enterprises

Dr. Seuss in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th Standards
Explore the works of Dr. Seuss, such as Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches and Egg, The Sneetches and Other Stories, The Lorax, The Butter Battle Book, and Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. Each story lesson includes reading...
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Curated OER

Business English Alibi Game

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students react and reflect on being given a scenario and report what they were doing at a particular time of day the day before.
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Curated OER

The CopyCat Game 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts learning exercise, students read a sentence, then choose an answer which agrees with the first sentence. Example: I drive a Honda. (So do I.) There are 10 examples to do on the page.
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The Olympic Games

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils research the history of the Olympics and the various countries that have hosted the games. They obtain information about some of the sports featured in the Olympics. Students then create a brochure using Microsoft Publisher.
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Find Somebody Who... 2-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game, students get to know their classmates by finding people who fit each of the 30 descriptions on the page and writing their names in the blanks.
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Curated OER

Game Plans

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the online game Neopets as a springboard to developing the characters, settings and plots for online fantasy games. They draft technical plans that describe how their games be presented and played on the We
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Find Somebody Who...3-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game learning exercise, students talk to classmates and find someone who fits each of the 30 descriptions. Students write their name in the blank if the description fits.
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Find Somebody Who... 1-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game, students read 30 descriptions of people and find classmates who match them. Students sign their names in the blanks next to descriptions that fit.
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Find Somebody Who ...4-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game worksheet, students read 30 descriptions which could fit classmates. Students match the descriptions with anyone who they fit and write the names on the blank.
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Curated OER

Make a Harry Potter Board Game

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars, in groups, make a Harry Potter Board Game. They explore how to write inference and recall questions.