Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
You won't believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids' brains sweating over the smallest of words.
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.
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.
Let's create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
How can we go from Biology to Immobile?
Examples of 4-Step Word Ladders! Don't know what a Word Ladder is? I have an introduction here.
Bored with typical spelling studies? Let's dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
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.
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Start with a one letter word, add another letter, then add another. How tall can you make the pyramid?
Examples of 5-Step Word Ladders! Don't know what a Word Ladder is? I have an introduction here.
Examples of 6-Step Word Ladders! Don't know what a Word Ladder is? I have an introduction here.
How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within "scarecrow"?
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.
Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within "cranberry"?
Students will build words using the letters found in "STUFFING."
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within WREATH?
Two sets of idioms related to numbers.
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within "general"?
How many words can you find within "leopard"?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within TEACHER?
Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!
How many words can you find within airplane?
Students will move from D to ASIDE by adding one letter at each step.
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
How many words can you find within PARKING?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within WESTERN?
How many words can you find within MENORAH?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?