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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of vocabulary-building information and quizzes, including a list of roots, prefixes, and suffixes with their meanings. It offers 365 SAT and GRE level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences. The quizzes...
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Quia

Quia: Greek & Latin Roots Skills

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
In this matching game, students match Greek and Latin roots with their meanings.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson. You will be introduced to a number of common affixes and roots; play games to practice matching affixes to their meanings; read a passage and use your...
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

School and Office Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common items from school or office. Student tries to match correct word with picture from drop down menu. After 10 questions a score based on correct...
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Quia

Quia: What's My Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Concentration-style game asks students to match root words with their meanings while remembering the location of the covered pairs of words. Java is required.
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Quia

Quia: Compound Words

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This site offers three focusing on compound words: Flashcards, one side with base word, other side with a word to form compound: Matching, match pairs of words to form compound words; and Concentration, matching pairs of words to form...
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Quia

Quia: Root/base Words

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
In this learning game, students match words with their correct root word.
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Quia

Quia: Root/base Words

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
In this Concentration game, students match the root words with the words complete with suffixes.
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Crayola

Crayola: Mixed Up Meanings: A Homophones Matching Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Turn a grammatical challenge into an amusing word game with inspiration from Crayola Twistables Colored Pencils and Maya Angelou's book Angelina of Italy.
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Quia

Quia: Synonym Match Up

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a matching and memory game in which students match synonyms while remembering their location. Java is required.
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a matching game in which students match the word in yellow blocks with the vowel sounds in blue boxes by clicking on them consecutively.
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Quia

Quia: Root/base Words

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Three activities including a matching game, a concentration game, and a word search puzzle for students to use while learning and practicing the meanings of various root words.
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Other

The Phrase Finder: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d...
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Quia

Quia: Super Synonyms Match Up

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
These matching games challenge student understanding synonyms and aid in expanding vocabulary.
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Quia

Quia: Synonyms

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This site offers a matching squares activity in which students match pairs of synonyms. Java is required.
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Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Interactive quizzes to help develop skill using suffixes in vocabulary. After a short introductory slide show, students are asked to identify the meaning of words in context that use similar suffixes. Next, students fill in the...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Pancake Panic Homophones

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Do you know the difference between the words "lesson" and "lessen" or "road" and "rode'? Play ABCya's Pancake Panic today to practice matching homophones, which are words that sound alike but have different meanings. But don't...
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Quia

Quia: Prefix Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Fast-paced Matching and Concentration games with self-checking and automatic scoring practice prefixes and their meanings. A word search with prefixes provided and online flashcards give additional drills.