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Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary ArticleYour Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary Article
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Love To Know Media
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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Your Dictionary: Activities for Teaching Vocabulary

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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 prefixes and suffixes, and explains effective activities and games to teach it.

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Concepts

context clues

Additional Tags

education.yourdictionary, how to use a dictionary, prefixes and suffixes, prior knowledge, "activities for teaching vocabulary", lovetoknow corporation, importance of teaching vocabulary, repeated exposure to words, games and quizzes

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RH.6-8.4 L.7.6 L.6.6 L.8.6 L.11-12.6 L.9-10.6 CCRA.L.6 L.4.4.c RH.9-10.4 W.4.2.d RL.3.4 L.3.5.a W.8.2.d W.7.2.d W.6.2.d W.4.2.c L.3.4.c

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