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Landforms Acrostic Poetry
Fourth graders apply scientific information about various landforms. They use the information to write and word process acrostic poems which they illustrate with clip art or pictures from magazines.
Curated OER
Go Fish
First graders explore rhyming words. They listen to the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and discuss the rhyming words. After being placed into groups, they play the game, "Go Fish" and find matching rhyming words. They...
Curated OER
Word Maps Teaching Ideas
In this literacy worksheet, students are given a graphic organizer to complete or are presented it as part of the lesson developed from using this sheet.
Other
Spelling Rules: Words Ending in Y
Chart with rules and examples for adding suffixes to words that end in -y.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer: Hyphens Rules for Use
This site from Grammar Slammer offers links to each of the uses for hyphens where correct and incorrect examples are provided for each. L.11-12.2a Hyphens
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Spelling It Right: Spelling It Right: Adding a Suffix to Words Ending in Y
This is a reference page explaining the rules for adding a suffix to words ending in the letter Y.
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Grammarist: Able and Ible
Rules and examples for words ending in the suffixes -able and -ible.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Dave's Esl Cafe: Verb Forms and Verb Tenses #6: Spelling Ing Forms
Spelling rules and examples for adding the "ing" suffix to the ends of words.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Using Hyphens
Do you know when to use hyphens? Here's a resource that lists when to use hyphens in adjectives, in compound numbers, after prefixes, and in between line breaks with examples of each.
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Oxford Dictionaries: Do You Know Your Ibles From Your Ables?
Rules and examples for words ending in the suffixes -able and -ible.
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Speakspeak: Spelling: Changing Y to Ies, Ied, Ier
A few rules and examples help students understand when and how to change words which end in -y, for plural nouns, verb forms, adjective and adverb forms.