Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials: Printed and Electronic (English Ii Reading)
This lesson focuses on using resources such as dictionaries, thesauruses (or thesauri), and glossaries to find and use words that will improve not only your reading skills but also your writing skills. L.11-12.4c References
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
Lessons on roots and affixes, denotation and connotation, context clues, origins and meanings of foreign words, cognates, and reference materials help determine word meanings. These lessons told you HOW to use these word discovery tools....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Guides (English Iii Reading)
Use reference guides to help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic
Find out how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic
Learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Reference Materials
A dictionary is one of the most useful reference books anybody could ever use. Learn how to properly understand a dictionary's formatting and content! [0:46]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Add and Subtract Fractions: Word Problems
In this exercise, students practice adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Other
Shakespeare Portal: Frequently Encountered Words
A glossary of one hundred words which may be unfamiliar to modern English speakers, but which are widely used in Shakespeare's plays. Each entry includes a definition and several references from Shakespeare's plays. Each reference...
Other
The "Q" Words (Pdf) [Pdf]
This site has a listing of the confusing yet necessary words in Latin that begin with the letter "q". Best for more advanced readers, but useful for anyone who likes well organized lists.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using Reference Materials to Correctly Spell Words
Some words may sound like other words, but using the wrong word can lead to confusion and madness. A dictionary would be helpful to make sure you know what you're talking about! [0:40]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic
Learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials: Printed and Electronic
You will learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Other
Alpha Dictionary: Online Russian Reference Grammar
Most questions about Russian grammar can be answered at this website. Intended for native speakers of English who are interested in learning Russian. Background on Russian grammar might also be useful by ELL students and their teachers,...
Help Algebra
Help algebra.com: General Word Problems
After reviewing the general strategy for solving word problems, several types of word problems are solved by first translating the phrases into algebraic equations, and then solving the problem. Use this page as a reference when solving...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Cohesion: Using Repetition and Reference Words
This site gives a brief overview of how to achieve cohesion or coherence in writing. It explains how the repeating of key words and using reference words help tie ideas together. Use link in first paragraph to find charts of transitional...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dictionary Use
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource introduces students to dictionaries. It covers what a dictionary is used for, what types of information you will find in a dictionary, guide words and their purpose, and how to use a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: How to Use a Thesaurus
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will review how to use a thesaurus. Uses links to an online web thesaurus to look up various words. Great starting point.
Other
Blinn College: Bryan Writing Center: Poetry Explication [Pdf]
Provides guidelines for analyzing poetry. Students must make certain they have a basic understanding of a poem, then analyze the language used. A set of 26 questions is offered that students can reference to help them analyze a poem....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hyphenation Conventions
This video [0:48) discusses how hyphens indicate specific nouns from compound words. Without them, they could refer to completely different things! Know when and how to use them.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)
Useful, extensive site for the Spanish-speaking ELL. This grammar section focuses on use of the articles "a/an" and plurals. A variety of interactive, self-correction exercises are provided. A "Teacher's Lounge," section is available...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Greek Mythology Words: Mythology 1
This is puzzle 1 of the 56 GREEK MYTHOLOGY WORDS in 7 PUZZLES for you to study. Start by solving the 8 words in any of the 7 puzzles. Use the mythology story root and character reference, the hint letter, the word definition and the word...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Greek Mythology Words: Mythology 2
This is puzzle 2 of the 56 GREEK MYTHOLOGY WORDS in 7 PUZZLES for you to study. Start by solving the 8 words in any of the 7 puzzles. Use the mythology story root and character reference, the hint letter, the word definition and the word...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Greek Mythology Words: Mythology 3
This is puzzle 3 of the 56 GREEK MYTHOLOGY WORDS in 7 PUZZLES for you to study. Start by solving the 8 words in any of the 7 puzzles. Use the mythology story root and character reference, the hint letter, the word definition and the word...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Greek Mythology Words: Mythology 4
This is puzzle 4 of the 56 GREEK MYTHOLOGY WORDS in 7 PUZZLES for you to study. Start by solving the 8 words in any of the 7 puzzles. Use the mythology story root and character reference, the hint letter, the word definition and the word...