Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues
Discover how to use context clues to improve your reading skills. This resource features exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. L.9-10.4a, L.8.2.B Context/Meaning
Other
Freeology: Free Graphic Organizers
Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Linda Crew
Discover more about Linda Crew's life and work when you visit this informative site. This online resource provides links to lesson plans and other activities for the book "Children of the River."
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use Context Clues
See models of different types of context clues, and practice finding meanings of words in context.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Word Learning [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic maps, find research that supports semantic...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals and Possessives
Write a sentence containing each of the twenty-four plural and possessive words listed. When finished, create a PDF of the sentences to print and share.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition: Use Context Clues
This learning module focuses on using context clues to understand unknown words including definitions, examples, restatements, cause and effect/relationships, and comparisons. It provides examples with explanations and a practice...
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Content Words
A short example of using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar content words. Click on Practice to practice using context clues.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory
This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...
Curated OER
Charlotte's Web: Pick the Perfect Word Game
Word games with Wilbur! This site contains an interactive game based on E.B White's book "Charlotte's Web." The student can drag words into the barn to find correct nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, and more! A fun way to assess...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
Curated OER
Charlotte's Web by e.b. White
Word games with Wilbur! This site contains an interactive game based on E.B White's book "Charlotte's Web." The student can drag words into the barn to find correct nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, and more! A fun way to assess...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Easy Things for Beginners: Interesting Things for Esl
Those familiar with ESL web sites will probably recognize this comprehensive site. On this page, the editors helpfully highlight a dozen or so word games and vocabularly activities geared to beginning ESL students and newcomers to the...
Other
Holiday & Festival Activities Esl Kid Stuff
Nice variety of ideas, games, activities, songs, and recommended web resources related to Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Geared toward younger PK-3 English language learners.
Able Media
Ctc Web: Latin Derivatives Exercises
These teacher-created exercises use amusing stories chock full of Latin derivatives to help students connect ancient and modern languages. Unfortunately, there is no key.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.
Other
Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Herbie and Annabelle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches the comprehension skill of cause and effect has web links to practice cause and effect, uses a word web to build background knowledge before reading the selection story and it...
Randall Davis
Esl Net World: What Is the Internet?
This resource is a good tutorial introduction to the Internet and its basic parts provided for by ESL NetWorld.com. It describes a short history and the different components of the Internet.
Other
Balanced reading.com: Decoding
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
Other
Growing With Grammar: Consonant Digraphs Wr, Kn, and Ck; Schwa Sound [Pdf]
This file contains two five-day spelling/vocabulary lessons. The first lesson covers words which contain the wr, kn, and ck digraphs; the second lesson covers words which contain the schwa sound. Each lesson contains a list of words with...
Other
Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.