This lesson has a new approach to vocabulary building where students generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.

This activity is a great way to teach students about rhymes and word recognition. This plan includes suggest nursery rhymes for you to use, and several supplementary sites to help you out.

Contains plans for two lessons that explain how to use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to make word problems easier to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites...

This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes

Practice solving word problems by dividing fractions by fractions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

A lesson plan in which students match a strong word choice with its overused counterpart. Materials are included.

This entry focuses on the commonly confused words continual and continuous including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to a quiz/exercise.

This research article is a Publication of the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition. In this article, the authors share the steps for using the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) to help secondary students with identifying...

The most effective vocabulary instruction teaches word meanings as concepts; it connects the words being taught with their context and with the students' prior knowledge. Six techniques have proven especially effective: Concept...

Solve multi-step word problems, including estimation. Select the equation that can be used to solve a word problem. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Apply what you've learned about vectors to solve some word problems! Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Practice solving word problems by adding or subtracting decimal numbers. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Visualize a strategy for approximating the square roots of nonperfect squares through modeling. This video focuses on a ratio, the number of extra tiles over the number of tiles for the next square that will give you a fractional...

This instructional activity focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the standard use of apostrophes when using both singular and plural. It also provides a practice exercise.

What is American roots music? The term "American roots music" may not be a familiar one, and requires some explanation. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the term "folk music" was used by scholars to describe music made by whites of...

This is a tutorial for words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

The focus of the instruction of identification strategies in this lesson plan is the book "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

A lesson plan in which students work with a partner to choose the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Materials are included.

Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how...

A lesson plan in which students check for speed and accuracy while reading word lists. Printable materials are provided.

Fourth graders will learn about the prefix re- and how to apply this prefix to familiar words. After the direct instruction, 4th graders will show their understanding through thinking aloud and applying the knowledge to a new text.

A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.

A reference page that shows you how to use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown content words.

An in-depth article on the roots of cooperative federalism, written by Dan Meador.