Fiction Book Awakenings This is a lesson that promotes vocabulary building usuage, critical thinking, predicting conquences, and drawing conclusions, with a focus on writing... http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
Building vocabulary with the use of adjectives To familiarize students with adjectives through reading The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.. http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
The Dictionary Game The Dictionary Game (also called Balderdash) is an activity I use to introduce new vocabulary words from content areas... http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
Euphemisms Students, especially young ones, often are unable to use the appropriate synonym, both in speaking and in writing... http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
Adverbily There are no manipulatives to reinforce the language arts curriculum. Creative dramatics is a method of providing practice in... http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
Vocabulary -Unfolding Meaning The purpose of this activity, used throughout the school year, is to teach a student to make "real meaning" from new vocabulary words using the whole language philosophy... http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
The Lexicon Challenge The Lexicon Challenge is used each week with the students' regular vocabulary words... http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...
Scramble Children will become more aware of beginning words.. http: //eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual...