Students identify their local, state, and national officials. They create a short blurb about each official and their function in office. Students choose an issue of concern they would like to write to their local official about,...

Students review ads from the newspaper for goods they would like to purchase. They identify qeustions they would need to ask sales associates in order to make an informed decision about the purchase. Pairs of students simulate calling...

In this transports of delight activity, students, with a partner, think of how many different modes of transportation there is, the advantages and disadvantages of each one and fill in the blanks in six sentences.

Fifth graders make reports on Anglophone countries and report to the class.  In this Anglophone countries report students take note of presented material.  Students answer questions related to the reports. students write a...

In this dictionary activity, students will practice using a dictionary. Students will respond to 16 short answer questions by looking up words in a dictionary in order to properly respond to each.

Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!

In this British food and food sayings worksheet, students complete matching, and fill-in-the-blank activities in order to gain a better understanding of British terminology around food. Some conversation starters embedded in the...

What is a homograph? Develop your students' vocabulary with a word association tool.   Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs...

An overview of the development of English as a global language fills out these slides. Beginning with statistics regarding how much of the world speaks English and to what capacity, a brief history is then given mostly pertaining to WWII...

Give your class an example of vocabulary words in a paragraph. Once your learners know the definition of the twelve vocabulary words used here, hearing the words in context can help round out their understanding of how to use the words....

Read this passage to illustrate the vocabulary words in context. Have your class attempt to define the words here before they receive the definitions.

Hear "Al Literation" read a paragraph with twelve vocabulary words hailing from Latin roots. Help your learners gain a greater understanding as they hear the words in context. A written transcript is available just below the character...

Hear a variety of vocabulary words incorporated into one paragraph. Click on the "Cinny Nym" character image to hear the passage via audio clip. A transcription of the paragraph is available below. Familiarize your readers with a list of...

In this future tense instructional activity, students will practice using the phrase, "Going to." Students will write 8 sentences with the time frame in the future that is provided for each question.

In this eating out worksheet, students practice matching ten food items on the right to their appropriate pictures on the left.

In this occupations worksheet, students match up ten pictures of people doing various jobs to their actual professions in writing.

In this preposition matching worksheet, students are given 10 pictures in the left column. Students must match the prepositions that are shown in the right column.

In this Latin vocabulary worksheet, students match ten pictures to their Latin names. This is a worksheet generator, and teachers may add words and pictures to the list.

In this prepositions worksheet, students determine by multiple choice where the soccer ball is positioned by the box in eight pictures.

For this questions and answers worksheet, 4th graders analyze eight pictures in order to ask a question to go along with the answer to the question already stated with each picture.

Students, after defining a list of vocabulary words on the board, review and identify basic types of transportation (bus, taxi cab, car, plane, and ship) in the United States. In addition, they make a graph of all the different ways that...

Students, while examining an intense list of vocabulary terms on types of money, change and simple foods, name and state the cost of food items in supermarkets, grocery stores and flea markets with flash cards and newspaper ads.

Students, while reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, identify basic food groups with the help of picture cards. As a group, they create a collage of healthy and unhealthy foods using pictures from magazines and newspapers.

Part of the MyVocabulary.com word roots study program, this short reading provides appropriate usage of words containing the Latin roots spect, sta, and vert at the intermediate level. No audio is available to accompany it as of press...