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Free elementary vocabulary resources for GATE
Back-to-School Brain Teaser/Vocabulary Builder
This back-to-school brain teaser doubles as a vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to use definitions and clues to identify words that contain the sound ooh, such as school rule, cool, and classroom. Answers to the first set of forty items are relatively common words, The more difficult second set requires the identification of less familiar words, such as boudoir, fondue, and elusive. A companion graphic organizer for writing presents an opportunity for each student to create (on paper
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4th - 8th
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March Connections Free Brain Teasers
Treat your students to March Connections, a two-page collection of mental calisthenics requiring the identification of specific words that will connect three, seemingly unrelated words--Leprechaun's, star, and medal, for instance. With a short brain workout, the word GOLD will come to mind--Leprechaun's gold, gold star, and gold medal. The forty items are related to March events or March weather. Full answer keys are included.
Download and enjoy!
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5th - 9th
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Back-to-School Sense of Humor Test
Welcome your students with this Back-to-School Sense of Humor Test.
Students are challenged to spot the correct endings to the beginnings of humorous statements uttered by real people, including Yogi Berra, various politicians, George Burns, Dolly Parton, and Groucho Marx to name a few. The two "tests" of 35 items each offer opportunities for youngsters to polish their internet research skills.
The companion graphic organizer for writing, entitled "I Couldn't Stop Laughing!" requires stude
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4th - 8th
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CRITICAL THINKING with Word Relationships TRIADS FREEBIETask Cards GATE
FREEBIE!! TRIADS combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills – analysis, synthesis, and evaluation – while having fun! These FREE TRIADS allow you to try them before you buy them. FREE TRIADS are available in both print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKFind a word that can be added to each of the words on the Triads. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Common Core RL.4.4: Ancient Greeks Who Became English Words
Common Core Reading Standard RL.4.4 : Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).Did you know the Ancient Greeks had such an influence on our world that some of their most famous citizens and heroes were adopted verbatim as words into the English language? Yes, there are some very common and useful English words that were created directly from the names of famous people in ancie
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4th - 8th
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April Vocabulary Downpour
April's designation as a month of rain is the anchor for this fifty-item brain teaser/vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to identify words that have the actual letters r-a-i-n or letter combinations that sound like "rain" within their spellings. Also included are interpretive questions based on idiomatic expressions with the word rain.
Five total pages including full answer keys. Download and enjoy.
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5th - 9th
The Word Jar: Vocabulary Enrichment
Make vocabulary instruction meaningful and FUN!
Over the years, my implementation of the Word Jar has evolved a little bit, but one thing remains the same. Every single word is kid-generated. Every. Single. Word. After all... I direct enough of our word study. I want my kids to constantly be on the look-out for WOW words as we interact with various texts together and as they navigate stories during independent reading. I want them to pay attention to descriptive language and nuances. I
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2nd - 4th
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ELA Enrichment Critical Thinking Games Digital Word Work for Early Finishers
Check out these games for early/finishers! These activities are perfect for gifted students who need differentiation! Need worksheets to engage your early finishers? Want to teach your class to think outside the box? Infuse your classroom with fun critical-thinking games that get your students' creative juices flowing. This freebie provides samples of the types of games I've made to foster engagement in my gifted and talented classroom.Included:Logic puzzlemaking words activityword ladder challe
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3rd - 6th
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St. Patrick's Day Scattergories
Note: If your students enjoy this activity, checkout my packet of Year Round Scattergories which includes games for all holidays, seasons,and beginning of the school year.
This is one of the activities from my larger learning packet, St. Patrick's Day Enrichment Fun for Early Finishers. For this activity students name St. Patrick’s Day-related words that belong in given categories and that begin with certain letter/sounds. A second page is provided with blanks so you can choose your own lette
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2nd - 6th
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Crazy Compounds: Creative Word Building Gifted Enrichment Activity for K-1
Need a fun, hands-on word building activity to differentiate for your higher or gifted readers in kindergarten and first grade? This 13 page Crazy Compounds document includes it all: directions page with five activities, several pages of compound word parts for students to cut apart, answer keys, and student sheets with answer blanks. Teachers can even make one laminated set for use in a language arts center. (Could also be used as a good hands-on activity for your lower readers in 2nd grade.) I
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PreK - 1st
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FREE! Learning (Specific) Character Traits
Do you ever find yourself asking students to be specific about their character descriptions, only to find out that they are way too attached to the words “nice” and “friendly”? I created this product to help teach students a variety of specific character traits, with a progression of traits from Grade 2-4.
This product helps teach vocabulary while students read closely to find examples of character traits.
This document includes:
- “No More Mr. Nice Guy!” Character Traits master page for eac
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2nd - 5th
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Opposites Board Game for Primary *Folder Game with Drawing and Writing
This is a great board game for reviewing opposites in the primary grades. Students match pictures to pictures; therefore, students are working on their ability to match opposite words, in addition to reading. There is also a worksheet for them to keep track of what they are doing in the center (if you would like to use for accountability in centers).
In addition, I have built an option into this game where students can ask their friends for help, and still get a prize for the correct answer. Ho
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PreK - 2nd
Greek and Latin Root Study
This is a great way to compile a list of Greek and Latin roots as you learn OR provide space for a study guide.
It includes space for the root, the meaning, the origin, and two examples.
At the bottom of each side, there is space for students to use them in sentences.
Depth and complexity icons are integrated throughout.
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4th - 7th
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February Bouquet: A Vocabulary/Spelling Brain Teaser
This two-part activity is a study of English words with tricky spellings, such as February and bouquet. The first set of thirty-three items focuses on everyday words that baffle us with their unusual letter combinations. The second portion, also with thirty-three items, features words that offer challenges with both their spellings and their less familiar definitions.
A resource list of 150+ more words with quirky spellings is included for those teachers who want to create another round or tw
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5th - 9th
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A Dozen Ways to Practice Vocabulary
This resource presents a dozen cards, each with an idea for how to introduce or review vocabulary words in your 4th through 8th grade classroom. Use them as teaching ideas, or better still, ask students to “draw a card” and then use the suggested strategy to present the target word to the class. Students might work in partners or small groups. I introduce the strategies two at a time to the class and we apply them to a set of vocabulary words. I do a couple of words, then I ask the class to
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4th - 8th
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Depth & Complexity (GATE) Frames for Junior Greatbooks, Series 4, Book 1
This is a complete set of Depth & Complexity (GATE) frames for all three units in Junior Greatbooks Series 4, Book 1. Frames for stories include: "Thank You, M'am", "The Gold Coin", "Tuesday of the Other June", Prot and Knot", "Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat", "The Nightingale", "Fresh", "Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo", "All Summer in a Day", and "Beauty and the Beast".Each frame contains the highlighted/target words from the Teacher's Edition to define, ("Language of the Disciplines"), and
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4th
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Strega Nona (Phonics Spelling Vocabulary) Task Cards #Spring
Freebie Reading Comprehension book companion of Strega Nona. These task cards (PDF) are perfect for Spring! Kid-Friendly way to cover multiple concepts/skills!Reading Comprehension questionsIllustrated story page for teaching/reviewNew vocabulary “Snazzy” words Adaptable Speech Sounds/Sight Words Spelling, phonics, synonyms, and rhyme!Look into these Big Money-Saving Bundles!January Mega-Bundle (10 Book Companions + 1 Virtual Field Trip)February Mega-Bundle (Valentines + Black History Month 13 B
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1st - 3rd
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Figurative Language Learning Menu
This is a learning menu for figurative language based on Bloom's. The menu may be used with a lesson or unit for figurative language. Teachers may decide to make this an assignment or use it for early finishers. The printable includes directions and all of the activities.
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5th - 8th
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FREE Sample - The Orphan of Ellis Island Vocabulary - Immigration Book Study
This sample of vocabulary activities are intended to complement/supplement the book, The Orphan of Ellis Island. This is an excellent book to use as an introduction to immigration. Understanding the vocabulary in a book helps with the comprehension as well as enhances the overall reading experience. This is one of my all time favorite books to use in my immigration unit and I know your kids will love it as much as mine.Check out this sample, and if you like it, purchase the entire vocabulary boo
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3rd - 4th
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Depth & Complexity Icon Chart
Depth & Complexity icons help students achieve deeper thinking, and understanding, as well as scholarly insights into the connections across time, people and disciplines. Great for GATE students or any students!
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Menu to play the restaurant game.
Menu to play restaurant with little kids who've just learned how to read and count up to 20-40. Even 10 years old kids like this game.Learn how to count, how to say food in Engish and how to have a small talk while ordering food for you and for your friend (cat, for example), also you might teach your kid the words like tip, change waiter and bill.
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K - 5th
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Cooking AAC Core Word Display with Boardmaker.
This AAC display using Boardmaker is a fantastic way to promote engagement, conversation and understanding, during cooking lessons, for students' with Complex Communication Needs. It can be printed and laminated in A3 and used during cooking to teach students' common kitchen appliances, utensils and actions. By promoting communication, students are kept engaged during whole class instruction and one-on-one modelling and discussion.
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PreK - 2nd
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Letter Tower Puzzles - Solve and Create!
Many teachers capitalize on the entertainment value of games to reinforce learning. However, did you know research shows that playing word games of all kinds actually activates the “pleasure center” of the brain and that this results in positive attitudes toward all of the language arts- including reading and writing? Letter Tower Puzzles can be a fun challenge for your students and also help them build vocabulary and spelling skills. This slide show may be shared digitally or as an in-class les
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3rd - 6th
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Vocabulary in Context -- Perform, Cartoon, Share -- Use AGAIN!
This vocabulary in context activity is an excerpt from my Brave Irene unit for GATE 2nd and 3rd grade. It can be used with any age or any piece of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Keep the dice chart handy and a collection of vocabulary words written on notecards for sponge activities throughout the school year. My class returns to it often, and we have fun sharing our examples and performances.
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K - 6th
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