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Your Dictionary: Sat Vocabulary Word Games

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the use of word games to teach SAT vocabulary words; it provides a list of different types of games that could be used for SAT prep including Jeopardy, crossword puzzles, hangman, online SAT prep quiz games, word...
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Your Dictionary: Rhyming Word Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article explains that rhyming words help children learn to spell. It describes how to play three different rhyming word games: Disappearing Rhyme Man, Rhyme that Word, and Rhyme Hunt.
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Your Dictionary: Fun Exercises for Compound Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on exercises for teaching compound words including compound word exercises, a list of root words to create many different compound words, links to compound word games, and interactive online games.
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Your Dictionary: Thanksgiving Word Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on Thanksgiving Day word games; it includes a list of Thanksgiving words and ideas to generate more of them and explains some word games like Turkey on the Table.
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Your Dictionary: Valentine's Day Word Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on Valentine's Day word games including providing a word list for Valentine's Day, and suggesting activities such as writing love letters and playing Valentine charades.
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Your Dictionary: Sequential Word Games

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses the use of sequential word games Scrabble and Boggle to build vocabulary.
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Your Dictionary: Winter Word Games

For Students K - 1st
This article discusses winter word games including Melting Snowman, Draw It, and Password.
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Your Dictionary: St. Patricks Day Word Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on vocabulary games for St. Patrick's Day. It provides a word list, ideas for games like Hangman, word searches, and online games sites such as Apples 4 The Teacher and Holidays.Kaboose.com.
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Your Dictionary: Fun Language Arts Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses reasons and suggestions for teaching the language arts curriculum through playing games including dictionary races and alphabetical order races, Mad Libs, punctuation games, crossword puzzle, word searches and...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Resources and Activities for Sight Words for 8th Grade

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This article offers a list of words that 8th graders should know by sight and links to several online resources for teachers including Internet4Classrooms, Puzzlemaker, Tools for Educators, and Fun With Words.
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Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
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Reading Rockets: Onset/rime Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Similar to teaching beginning readers about rhyme, teaching children about onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help students decode new words when reading and spell words when writing. This article...
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History.com: Tailgating: How the Pre Game Tradition Can Be Traced to Ancient Times

For Students 9th - 10th
The ritual grew as ownership of automobiles and then mass production of portable grills and plastic coolers soared. Tailgating before college and professional football games is an American tradition. Temporary tent cities pop up in...
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Your Dictionary: Word Jumble Solver

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers tips for unscrambling words.
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Internet Tesl Journal: Ten Games for Recycling Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
10 classroom activities that help students practice (recycle, reuse, review) vocabulary they've previously learned. Includes variations of well-known games, e.g., Pictionary, Taboo, Bingo, Outburst, and others. Instructions are provided...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Word Girl: Heroes & Villains: "Violet"

For Students K - 1st
Learn about Violet, an artistic genius and Becky's best friend, who has a unique perspective of the world. Links are provided to her color page, bookmark, and game.
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Your Dictionary: How to Solve Cryptograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides detailed tips on how to solve cryptograms such as looking for repeated words, solving the short words first, and looking for digraphs and common letters.
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Your Dictionary: Games for Grammar Usage

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses games for learning grammar usage including classroom games like Invisible Grammar Guy, Rhyme That Word; how teachers can make their own games using online word search and puzzle makers; and online grammar game...
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Your Dictionary: Games to Play With Children to Build Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This article offers insight on how children best learn vocabulary while having fun and using a variety of both audio and visual stimulation, as well as tactile components. It offers four sample games: Prefix/Suffix Game, Vocabulary...
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Your Dictionary: Vocabulary Games to Play in Groups

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on board games played in groups that can improve vocabulary including Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories, Taboo, and Random Words.
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 1st Grade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to first graders including Dolch sight words for 1st grade and strategies for teaching spelling such as syllabification, drawing symbols with words, matching words with pictures, and playing...
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Your Dictionary: Teaching Spelling in 2nd Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This article focuses on teaching spelling to 2nd graders including the Dolch sight words for 2nd grade, the number of spelling words per week, and links to online resources.
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Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on the importance of teaching vocabulary and how to teach it effectively. It lists concepts that need to be considered when preparing to teach vocabulary such as prior knowledge, dictionary use, context clues, and...
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Chateau Meddybemps: Matching Colors to Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A short application to help young learners and beginning English language learners recognize color words.

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