This resource consists of six pages of varied activities, specifically related to the book Peggy by Anna Walker. This PDF file contains worksheets that are primarily comprehension and vocabulary based. This enables teachers to provide students with meaningful experiences with the text and further d...

Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary

Teach your students Greek and Latin roots using a fun and interactive card game! This resource includes 2 decks of cards and covers 120 different Greek and Latin roots. You will love the flexibility this resource offers; it can be used with any vocabulary program and is easily differentiated to meet the unique needs of your students!

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Planning vocabulary activities that are meaningful and engaging can be challenging. Here are some ideas with a freebie to get started!

Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!

This is a literature story packet that I created to go along with the story, The Wanderer, by Sharon Creech. In this packet you will find: - Vocabulary Words for Students - Defined vocab for teachers - Vocabulary Crossword - Two different Tests for Vocabulary - Question or Journal Sheets for Parts 1-5 of the story - Essay Test at the end of the Story -Creative Writing Activity with brainstorming, editor's checklist, and grading rubric - Additional group/individual activity that goes along with the story - And an additional ideas page for more group and individual activities that you can do while reading

Book week or halloween, here are 27+ awesome teacher group costume ideas that any teaching team would love to dress up as. The children will love it too.

This resource consists of six pages of varied activities, specifically related to the book The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson. This PDF file contains worksheets that are primarily comprehension and vocabulary based. This enables teachers to provide students with meaningful experiences with the ...

Engaging vocabulary review Ideas & activities that can be used with K-5 students! Five fun & collaborative vocabulary instruction ideas.

They have to answer.For example:Yes, it can / No, it can't. We practice the verbs and the description of the animals. Using has got,too.They can tell the names. - ESL worksheets

Every year I am shocked by my students' underdeveloped vocabulary. They struggle with reading comprehension because of their limited understanding of words. Their writing can be very drab because of their limited word choice. And when it comes time for standardized testing they often struggle with understanding what is being asked of them because of

What are the 5 key things in teaching English conversation? How to help your students have natural conversations in English.

Long vocabulary lists can appear daunting and unlearnable at first glance, but they don’t have to be perceived in such a way. Here we have engaging and entertaining activities, games, and strategies to help your students master their vocab lists with ease. Learning is made fun with the right

Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.

This free Geometry Bingo will help your students learn all about lines, rays, line segments, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines.

Morphology instruction is a powerful strategy for improving vocabulary and comprehension. This post shares several morphology activities.

These red chevron themed cards are perfect for any word wall! They are correlated with each unit (1-30) of the Journeys program. Includes both selection AND domain specific vocabulary words. Be sure to check out the other styles available in my TPT store! If there is a style that you would like ...

Have you ever planned a lesson with the best technology integration only to have the technology fail as you begin the lesson? My favorite technology fail story to tell about is the time I was teaching math. I was writing the word "associative" when the Smartboard froze immediately after a particular letter...I'll let you figure out which letter that was! Can you hear those 4th Graders giggling? Anyway....it may be a good idea to have a few games up your sleeve for those times when technology doesn't work or simply when the kids need to get up and move. At other times, you may want to have your kiddos practice some social skills! Here are a few games that require no prep and can be used with multiple levels simply by differentiating your questioning. 7 Up with a Twist (for any content other than long math problems) Choose 7 students to go to the front of the room. The remaining students place their heads down on their desks and their thumbs up. The 7 students silently walk around the room and push down a thumb of one of their classmates and return to the front of the room. When all 7 students are back to the front of the room, say "Wake up sleepy heads!" The students who have their thumbs pushed down, stand up. The teacher asks each of the 7 chosen students to answer review questions one at a time. If the student gets the answer right, they get to guess a classmate who may have pushed down their thumb. If the student guesses the classmate correctly, the guesser and thumb pusher trade places. If the guesser does not correctly answer the review question, he/she sits back down. You can differentiate your questioning based on the needs of your students. Repeat the process as time allows. Sink or Swim (for any content other than long math problems) Split the class in half, and have students face each other on opposite sides of the room. (If you assign your kiddos numbers, you could have evens on one side and odds on the other.) Pose a question to the first member of the first team. If the student answers correctly, he/she gets to sink someone on the opposing team. When sunk, the student sits down. If the student answers their question incorrectly, he/she is sunk and must sit down. Next, pose a question to the first student on the opposing team. If the student is correct, he/she may opt to save a kid on his/her own team, and that student would rejoin the team. Another option for a correct answer is to sink someone on the opposing team. I like to add a rule that a student can only be sunk once until every member of a team has been sunk once, and then everyone is fair game again. Play continues in this manner until one team is completely sunk. The team with members standing wins! 4 in a Row with a Twist (for vocabulary in any content area) Write 16+ words on the board from the content being reviewed. Students copy the vocab words in random boxes on their 4 in a Row board. They may not use a word more than once. (Blank board FREE for you below!) Need the game, but forgot to print? No worries, simply have your kiddos fold a blank sheet of paper until they have 16 boxes. Then they can trace over the fold lines and add words in the boxes. While students are preparing their boards, prepare prizes. Prizes for 4 in a row get written individually on sticky notes. Try starting with about 5 low cost or no cost prizes such as erasers, pencils, drawing time, etc. For a twist, add in gag prizes such as pencil shavings, a plastic spoon, etc. Kids love to hear the prize to see if it is real or fake as they call the gag prizes. So many laughs! Pile up the sticky notes listing each prize and keep them up-side-down. Hand out chips, and play. Teacher reads the definition of each review word. Students cover each word that they have on their board. For an added twist, instead of yelling, "Bingo," have students perform an action such as pretend to shoot a basketball, call out something funny such as "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street!?", or sing a few lines of a song such as Let is Go.....when they win. Then have each winner call out their winning words. All winners for the round come up to the teacher where the prize is revealed to students from the first sticky note. Students remove chips from game boards and play again. Continue until you have distributed all of the prizes or run out of time. Get your FREE blank 4 in a Row board HERE! Consider writing down these 3 games on an index card for those times when your lesson includes technology that just won't cooperate or you and your kiddos just need to interact! Are you a subscriber yet? FREE Activity for new subscribers: Sign up for the Fourth Grade Frenzy newsletter!

This week I tried something new with the vocabulary in the story. I got the idea at a First Grade Conference in December. The student writes the vocabulary word in the middle of the sheet and then there are four things to do with the word. We completed two of the boxes together as a class and they finished the last two boxes independently. The kiddos sure had a great grasp of the vocabulary after this. When we read the story they had fantastic comprehension.

Are students collaborating effectively in your classroom or online? Ensure that all students are involved in group work or digital learning with these cooperative group roles. Within these 4 roles, responsibilities are divided so that each student can contribute to the group in a fair and meaningful way. Each role lists 3 distinct responsibilities, along with accountable talk stems specifically related to that role for additional support. Now available as digital images, you can post these roles to your school's digital platform or add them to assignment docs and slides! An intro activity and two exit slips are now accessible in Google Forms™ for distance or remote learning! To foster student choice, students can select their desired collaborative role for the day. You can choose how often students rotate roles to best fit your students' needs! Product includes: INTRO ACTIVITY: An overview of the 4 group roles and their distinct responsibilities. "Whose Responsibility Is It?" A matching activity to determine which role is responsible for the described task. 4 GROUP ROLES: With career-based titles to encourage learners *NEW* DIGITAL VERSIONS! Material Manager: Oversees supplies and students' use of support resources Discussion Driver: Moderates the discussion and volume Project Director: Presents the directions and group's completed ideas Time & Task Tracker: Oversees the group's use of time and remaining tasks STANDARD & MINI SIZES: Printing options of 4 or 8 cards to a page! 3 COLOR OPTIONS: Signature Rainbow, Color-block, or Grayscale (for color paper!) SELF-REFLECTION EXIT SLIP: For students to reflect on their contribution to the group Both in print and a digital version- Google Forms™! GROUP EVALUATION EXIT SLIP: For students to evaluate their effort and their peers' ability to fulfill their roles. Both in print and a digital version- Google Forms™! *NEW* GROUP ROLE DIGITAL IMAGES: JPG files of each group role and talking stems to post to your school's digital platform.

Let's dive into some new options to teach vocabulary, for those who have the time and energy to pursue them. In this post and podcast, I'm sharing ten ideas for making the study of vocabulary something students might even look forward to.

This was taken from Dr. Averil Coxhead's work on Vocabulary at the following link: Vocabulary Tiers and Samples Common Core Vocabulary, Tier I, II and III Words COMMON CORE TIER VOCABULARY INFORMATION Common Core State Standards: Focus on Tier 2 & Tier 3 Academic Vocabulary Tier 1 Basic words that commonly appear in spoken language. Because they are heard frequently in numerous contexts and with nonverbal communication, Tier 1 words rarely require explicit instruction.Examples of Tier 1 words are clock, baby, happy and walk. Tier 2 High frequency words used by mature language users across several content areas. Because of their lack of redundancy in oral language, Tier 2 words present challenges to students who primarily meet them in print. Examples of Tier 2 words are obvious, complex, establish and verify. Tier 3 Words that are not frequently used except in specific content areas or domains. Tier 3 words are central to building knowledge and conceptual understanding within the various academic domains and should be integral to instruction of content. Medical, legal, biology and mathematics terms are all examples of these words. The following lists were created by Dr. Averil Coxhead Senior Lecturer School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington [email protected] High Mileage Word List High Mileage Word Families

Teaching science in second or third grade? These force and motion activities, experiments, and lessons are easy to plan, NGSS aligned, and SO much fun! Your students will love the STEM challenges and the Science worksheets are so engaging.