Vocabulary

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Ongoing Greek and Latin Word Part Activities

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Vocab Puzzle: Word Ladders

You won't believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids' brains sweating over the smallest of words.

Jabberwocky and Context Clues

Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words ("Jabberwocky") and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it's only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction

Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.

Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names

Let's create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!

Synonym Graphs

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

Sets of Idioms

An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.

Greek and Latin Word Part Paths

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

Word Ladders: 4-Step Examples

Examples of 4-Step Word Ladders! Don't know what a Word Ladder is? I have an introduction here.

Common English Words From Other Languages

Bored with typical spelling studies? Let's dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!

Words Within Words: Intro (Soldier)

How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?

Advanced Alliteration (and Consonance)

When students learn about alliteration, it's hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Antonym Paths

Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?

Word Pyramids

Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?

Word Ladders: 5-Step Examples

Examples of 5-Step Word Ladders! Don't know what a Word Ladder is? I have an introduction here.

Word Ladders: 6-Step Examples

Examples of 6-Step Word Ladders! Don't know what a Word Ladder is? I have an introduction here.

Words Within Words: Ornament

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?

Idiom Tasks

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Sets of Idioms Related to Food

Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.

Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms

Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within "cranberry"?

Words Within Words: STUFFING

Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Words Within Words: Wreath

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

Words Within Words: Nutcracker

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Words Within Words: General

How many words can you find within "general"?

Words Within Words: Leopard

How many words can you find within "leopard"?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts

Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!

Words Within Words: Airplane

How many words can you find within airplane?

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Idioms about Weather

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

Words Within Words: Saturn

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Idioms About Money

Five sets of idioms related to money.

Word Pyramid: U to Brush

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Idioms About Fire

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Idioms About Red

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

Word Pyramid: T to PLANET

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?

Words Within Words: PARKING

How many words can you find within PARKING?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Words Within Words: Menorah

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to Patch

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Word Pyramid: O to Stones

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?