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Curated OER

Vocabulary: Multiple Meaning Words in Context

For Teachers 2nd
Learners use context clues to define words with multiple meanings. After extensive practice with their teacher, learners read through six sentences, they then identify a word with a multiple meaning, and determine its meaning based on...
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Curated OER

Word Analysis

For Students 5th - 8th
This activity helps increase understanding of prefixes, suffixes, roots, derivation, and the meaning of two words of their choice.
Worksheet
Curated OER

What's Happening?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing captions worksheet, students analyze 4 action filled pictures. Students write a caption for each picture using the choices in a word bank.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Rhyming Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this rhyming word worksheet, students print the rhyming word that names each picture. They use the other word and picture for clues for determining the rhyming word.
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Curated OER

The Beginning, The Middle, & The End

For Teachers K - 2nd
Cut magazine pictures into three sections, having your youngsters piece the pictures back together. With this fun activity, they discover the importance of sequencing a story. Then they use a fun template (shaped like a burger) to write...
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EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: Jigsaw to Build and Share Expertise about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Part 1

For Teachers 5th Standards
Using the Jigsaw protocol, scholars study chunks of text from a speech given by former US presidents following a devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. As they read the speech in small groups, they build background knowledge and share...
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Teaching Tolerance

Consuming and Creating Political Art

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A picture is worth a thousand words, but political art may be worth even more! After examining examples of political cartoons, murals, and other forms of public art, class members create their own pieces to reflect their ideals and...
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Curated OER

Tangerine: Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here's a great way to make vocabulary words drawn from Edward Bloor's novel Tangerine memorable. Kids create a word square, and in one quadrant write the word. A picture goes in a second quadrant, the definition in a third, and a...
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US National Archives

The Royal Seal What Can It Tell Us?

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
Analyze the images and details of the Great Seal of Queen Elizabeth I, and discover clues that reveal how one of the greatest monarchs in the history of England wished to be seen and respected. This is a great way to discuss how even to...
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Curated OER

What Do You See at the Pond?

For Teachers K - 2nd
With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...
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Curated OER

Environmental Problems and Solutions

For Students 5th - 8th
In this environmental worksheet, learners complete 4 riddles and picture clues about terms from their chapter as well as examine an "eye spy" scene for good environmental practices.
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Curated OER

Guided Reading Organizer for Chain Reaction

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The class uses Chain Reaction, a magazine, to build a better understanding of Latin and Greek roots found in scientific vocabulary. They use two attached worksheets to help them read a scientific article, using visual clues and their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Antonia: Magic Squares (Vocabulary Strategy)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Help your pupils discover the power of context clues by teaching the this vocabulary strategy. Designed to go with words from Willa Cather's My Antonia, this exercise focuses on having individuals use their own words to define new...
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Beatrice Public Schools

Analogy Practice Worksheet

For Students 7th - 11th
Clarify word relationships and practice working with synonyms and antonyms by administering an extensive worksheet. Class members determine the relationship between words and complete a series of analogies. Before assigning these...
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Word Family Memory Match

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word families matching worksheet, students cut out 24 word cards. Students place beginning sound cards face down in one group and word family ending sound cards face down in a separate group. Students turn over cards to make...
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Lakeshore Learning

What's Next? Sequencing Story

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
First, next, then, and, finally are the words in focus of a sequencing lesson plan. Scholars listen to a read aloud of the tale "Lost in the Fog," and take part in a grand conversation about the story's sequence...
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Curated OER

Guided Reading: Jump Rope

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners blend phonemes to decode words. For this guided reading lesson, students evaluate different comprehension strategies to aid reading.  Learners make predictions based on picture clues and use patterned sentences to...
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Curated OER

Guided Reading: Shapes Where We Play

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover shapes on a playground. For this guided reading lesson, students discover new vocabulary words related to shapes as they read Shapes Where We Play. In small groups, students use picture clues and one to one matching to...
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Nouns: Family Relations

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this nouns of people worksheet, students use clues in a picture of a family, choose words in a word bank, and complete sentences about the family's relations. Students answer seven multiple choice sentences.
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Valentine's Day Picture Test

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this Valentine's Day vocabulary worksheet, students view pictures and incomplete words and use the pictures as clues to fill in the blanks and complete the words. Students write 10 words.
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K12 Reader

Christmas Rhymes

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
What better way for children to celebrate the holiday season than by practicing their phonemic awareness skills? Presenting young readers with a series of eight Christmas-themed words, this worksheet asks them to circle the words...
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A Plump and Perky Turkey

For Teachers K
Help readers recognize elements in a story. They will use pictures and text to gain meaning from written material. Have learners listen to the story A Plump and Perky Turkey and participate in a discussion. They recognize the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Sounds: First and Last

For Students K - 2nd
In this beginning and ending sounds worksheet, learners fill in the first and last letter blanks in six CVC words. The vowels are all given, so writers are practicing consonants. Use the picture clues provided in order to complete the...
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Curated OER

Sight Word Activity Pages

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sight word worksheet, students are given a calendar naming 4 weeks worth of sight words and their activities for each school day of the week. Activities follow on subsequent pages.