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Penguin Books

An Educator's Guide to Matilda

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Chances are, you've got some precocious Matilda fans in your class! Use a thorough set of lesson plans to address Roald Dahl's classic novel about a bright girl who just wants to be understood. Vocabulary exercises,...
Interactive
Royal Society of Chemistry

Organic Names—Functional Groups

For Students 6th - 12th
Worried that your lesson plan about functional groups is dysfunctional? Liven things up with interactive puzzles! Curious chemists arrange functional groups based on name, formula, suffix, and an example. The challenge begins when the...
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Curated OER

Spelling Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Review basic spelling rules with your elementary schoolers. Focus in on the spelling of words with a specific prefix. In this spelling lesson, learners use an interactive whiteboard lesson to learn prefixes such as de, sub, re, and pre....
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Curated OER

Unlocking New Words

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the various types of suffixes and prefixes. In groups, they identify the root words and determine the proper suffix or prefix to add to the root. They complete a worksheet and review their answers to end the...
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Curated OER

Learning New Words

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers, working in groups, make as many words as possible in a given time, using flash cards that contain prefixes, words, and definitions. They chose group roles and participate in a numbers of time rounds of this activities.
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Curated OER

Forget The Dictionary!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Accessing Web sites and playing interactive word games enliven the study of Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes. Alas, the link to resources appears broken. Take some time to find game links.  
Interactive
Curated OER

Qmaster-3 (Degrees Of Comparison)

For Students 4th - 8th
In this on-line language arts worksheet, students complete 10 multiple choice questions where they select the correct prefix or suffix to correctly complete a sentence. Students can check their answers at the end of the worksheet.
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Curated OER

Kingdom Animalia

For Students 5th - 8th
In this kingdom animalia learning exercise, students fill out examples of the phylums chordata, arthropoda, and mollusca and write the meaning of prefixes and suffixes. Students complete 9 problems.
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Bekshire Museum

Cloudy Skies: The Art of Classification

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Such a great resource and perfect for learners in Kindergarten through third grade. The class will discuss cloud types and formation, and then they'll get outside and draw as they observe the clouds they see. They'll need to take note of...
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Curated OER

School-Home Links: Syllables and Long Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this multi-syllable word worksheet, students preview five words that use prefixes and are multi-syllabic. Students then match these words up with the given definitions. Parents or guardians sign the worksheet.
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Curated OER

Adding -ed Practice Sheet

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this grammar instructional activity, students practice adding the suffix -ed to 35 words. Students rewrite the word in the box below the root word.
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Curated OER

Adding -est Practice Sheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite the 35 words by adding the -est suffix ending to each word on the provided lines.
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Curated OER

Sequential Curriculum for Advanced Writing Workshop

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders engage in a ten-month long elective course focusing on college board review and an advanced writing workshop. Both course components focus on thinking and reasoning skills. Various approaches include sentence combining,...
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Curated OER

Break It Down

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a word part identification game. They form words using prefixes, suffixes and root word game pieces.
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Curated OER

Greek Origins and Character Development

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine words of Greek origin and discuss character development in fiction. They read a list of Greek word parts and create words on a worksheet. Students then read and discuss an informational handout about character...
PPT
Curated OER

Vocabulary Set 8

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners may have to do penance if they are apathetic about studying the three roots (path, pen/pun, matr/metr) in this vocabulary presentation and thus may not matriculate.
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Curated OER

Word Roots Lesson #8: auto

For Students 7th - 9th
Knowing root words can expand our vocabulary dramatically. Use this worksheet to discuss auto and words in which it commonly appears. Two short exercises are provided here. In the first, learners match words containing the target root...
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Curated OER

Word Roots Lesson #10 - Focus: miso

For Students 7th - 9th
What does miso mean? Teach your class all about this root word with this quick practice sheet. After studying the chart provided, pupils learn new words that use the root and complete two short activities. 
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British Council

Snack Facts - Recording Vocabulary

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
What's in a word? Scholars look at a sentence written on the board about snacks. They discuss unfamiliar terms and then record the new words by drawing a picture, writing a synonym, writing a translation, or creating a mind map. Pupils...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Pictures and Print: What's the Difference?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students watch a PowerPoint presentation. In this early literacy lesson plan, students watch a PowerPoint presentation describing print from pictures and the difference between the two.
Organizer
Curated OER

Multiple Use Flower Power Graphic Organizer

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this multiple use flower power graphic organizer worksheet, students use a flower shaped black line picture in a number of ways. They put a picture in the middle circle and place describing words in the petals. They place a prefix or...
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Curated OER

Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
When should you use a colon, dash, or hyphen? Middle schoolers insert different types of punctuation marks into given sentences. Rules for usage are included in each example.
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Curated OER

Lord of the Flies - Sentence Starters and Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers prepare for the reading of iam Golding's novel, The Lord of the Flies, by exploring the theme through a discussion and sentence starter activity.
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Curated OER

Up, Up, and Away

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a WebQuest that introduces them to a study on clouds and how they relate to weather systems.

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