This article answers four common questions teachers have about vocabulary instruction, including what words to teach and how well students should know vocabulary words.

This intervention, which is based on Schema Theory, engages students in enrichment activities prior to reading the passage. In this way, students have the opportunity to activate and enhance existing knowledge before reading....

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...

Links to 27 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.2d: Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

In this activity, students examine various materials and investigate how they interact with light. Students use five new vocabulary words (translucent, transparent, opaque, reflection and refraction) to describe how light interacts with...

Students categorize words into groups and justify the grouping of words.

In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The words are then hidden on turned-down cards in a concentration-type game. As students click on cards, they both see and hear the words,...

In this lesson plan, 3rd through 5th grade students create word searches on grid paper using their spelling words; then they pass their word search to a classmate to solve it.

In this lesson, students find and cut out magazine pictures that show the definition of their vocabulary words and make a collage with them.

Extensive site for teaching Spanish-speaking ELLs about words used to describe homes and the things found in them. Instructions are in Spanish; exercises in English.

A reading exercise that teaches Spanish-speaking ELLs about different kinds of work and the vocabulary used to describe jobs. Instructions in Spanish; exercise in English.

Extensive site for teaching Spanish-speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is animals. Exercise follows short reading. Instructions are in Spanish; exercise in English.

In this instructional activity young scholars research their new vocabulary words in small groups and determine the true definition of the word and two false defintions that are believable. Then the class comes together and each group...

In this free version of the game, choose from four sets of words, depending on the grade level. The word list is presented and you must put the words in alphabetical order. Includes 'Spelling Test' and 'Teach Me' features.