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Savvas Learning

Pearson Education: The Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Other

Freeology: Free Graphic Organizers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Linda Crew

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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."
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use Context Clues

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
See models of different types of context clues, and practice finding meanings of words in context.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Word Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
Interactive
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Root Hoot [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan for a card game in which students match multi-syllable words according to their root words. Materials are included.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sentence Writing Practice: Plurals and Possessives

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition: Use Context Clues

For Students 5th Standards
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...
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Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Content Words

For Students 4th Standards
A short example of using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar content words. Click on Practice to practice using context clues.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Curated OER

Charlotte's Web: Pick the Perfect Word Game

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Looking for Meaning [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars look for the meanings of unknown words in a text. Materials are included.
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Curated OER

Charlotte's Web by e.b. White

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
Interactive
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Easy Things for Beginners: Interesting Things for Esl

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Holiday & Festival Activities Esl Kid Stuff

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Able Media

Ctc Web: Latin Derivatives Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Other

Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Herbie and Annabelle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[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...
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Randall Davis

Esl Net World: What Is the Internet?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Balanced reading.com: Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What is decoding? Use this site to find the answer to this important question. This website focuses on a balanced reading approach to learning.
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Other

Growing With Grammar: Consonant Digraphs Wr, Kn, and Ck; Schwa Sound [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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...
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Other

Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.