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Make your vocabulary instruction more interesting and engaging with over 20 activities and strategies that encourage students to interact with words. Directions and student record sheets (when applicable) are included for nearly two dozen interactive vocabulary activities.

Help your students master these 26 essential academic vocabulary words. These vocabulary tasks have been designed to help students understand and practice using essential vocabulary that appears routinely on standardized tests. The tasks could be utilized in conjunction with a Word of the Week. Each page highlights a specific vocabulary term and provides a definition, variations of the word, an explanation and/or examples of the word in use, and a selection of short student activities based o

This is a perfect warm-up activity for students or adults. Participants read the 22 clues (i.e. "can't hold on to anything" and "famous former baseball player") and try to determine the appropriate candy (i.e. Butterfingers and Babe Ruth). Could be used as a cooperative learning activity or as a contest to see who can solve the most correctly first. An answer key is included.

Multiple meaning words are often confusing for students, especially English Language Learners. This sheet gives ideas for using/modifying commercial board games such as Balderdash and Outburst to have students work with polysemous words. Different suggestions allow for students to use both words and pictures to demonstrate knowledge of multiple meanings.

I have... Who has... is a cooperative learning activity that has also been called the "loop game." Each student is given a card with a question and answer that do not match. The first student reads aloud their question. The classmate with the answer then reads their card. The activity continues until the last question is asked which the first person will have the answer for. This set of cards are all related to the characteristics of drama/plays.

This worksheet includes clues for the four parts of reciprocal teaching (predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing) and space to record student thinking about each part.

This bookmark includes clues and cues for the four parts of reciprocal teaching: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.

Multiple meaning words are a source of confusion for many students, especially English Language Learners. This direction sheet explains how students can make a flap book focusing on polysemous words. Students can be challenged to write multiple definitions and/or draw pictures. They then can try to use two different contexts of a word in a single sentence.

This a strategy to use when breaking words into syllables. Three simple steps and it works all the time.

Multiple meaning words can be tricky for many students. This worksheet asks students to think about parts of the body that can have multiple meanings (i.e. a calf can be a baby cow or the lower part of your leg).

Thirty dominoes with pictures depicting different meanings of polysemous words. Students try to connect the dominoes by matching two pictures that represent a single multiple meaning vocabulary word. Perfect for small group instruction, collaborative literacy center or independent practice. Answers provided.

Students will work in groups to chart 10 trials of one person dropping a ruler for another to catch. This performance task provides students with cooperative group experience that includes independent reflection or questioning as follow-up. The task consists of a teacher direction sheet with sample performance criteria or exemplary responses and student activity sheets. When students are engaged in the performance tasks they should follow this basic format: • The teacher introduces the task

Multiple meaning words are often confusing for students, especially English Language Learners. This activity directs students to think of several definitions or contexts for one polysemous word (i.e. run or light). Students create a wheel using two paper plates, one with a cut out window. They can use words and/or pictures to demonstrate knowledge of multiple meanings.

This writing project includes two mini-lessons to use while students work on writing an essay about the states of matter. The first mini-lesson addresses brainstorming and organizing ideas. The teacher can model webbing and creating an outline about the scientific method before students explore the topic of matter. The second mini-lesson tackles linking paragraphs to make the message clear.

There are lots of words related to the seashore that have more than one meaning such as wave, shore, and coast. This packet includes three different worksheets for students. One asks students to look at two definitions and determine a word that can fit both definitions – one related to the seashore and another definition unrelated. The second activity asks students to think of seashore related words that can also have the listed definitions. The last page provides students with non-seashore

The students will work in groups to complete the activity. One student will drop the tennis ball to the floor. The three students who are not dropping the ball will have to watch closely to see how high the ball bounces and record the distance on the chart. This performance task provides students with cooperative group experience that includes independent reflection or questioning as follow-up. The task consists of a teacher direction sheet with sample performance criteria or exemplary respo

Students will work in cooperative learning groups to design a new toy for a toy company's contest. This performance task provides students with cooperative group experience that includes independent reflection or questioning as follow-up. The task consists of a teacher direction sheet with sample performance criteria or exemplary responses and student activity sheets. When students are engaged in the performance tasks they should follow this basic format: • The teacher introduces the task.

Multiple meaning words are a source of confusion for many students, especially English Language Learners. This graphic organizer asks students to locate predetermined polysemous words in a text and select the correct definition based on the context of the story. Teacher preparation includes selecting multiple meaning words in a text and recording two possible definitions for each word.

There are lots of words related to music that have more than one meaning. This purchase will get you four different worksheets (with answers) that challenge students to consider words such as pitch, staff, note, and measure that have multiple meanings. Differentiation is considered with word banks provided on some versions of the worksheets.

This is a planning sheet to help teachers consider four essential questions in instructional planning– What do you want students to learn? How will you know they have learned it? What will you do for students that struggle? What will you do for students that demonstrate mastering of the target skills/strategies?