Playlist: Vocab
Idioms About Bugs
Five idioms related to bugs.
Idioms About Birds 2
Five idioms related to birds.
Idioms About Birds 1
Five idioms related to birds.
Idioms About Ducks
Five idioms related to ducks.
Idioms About Geese
Five idioms related to geese.
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Idioms About Money
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Idioms about Weather
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Word Ladders Introduction
You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.
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.
Synonym Graphs
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
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.
Greekymon
Your class will become a wonderland of imaginary creates with Greek and Latin names.