Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.

Students choose a category to see a list of related words and then choose a word they would like to explore. Includes pronunciations, definitions, pictures, and video demonstrations of each word.

Classroom teachers will learn about interactive vocabulary journals, engaging instructional strategy tools. They will learn how to implement interactive jounals, understand how to measure progress with interactive journals, find research...

Classroom teachers will learn about word play, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement word play, understand how to measure progress with word play, find research that supports word play, and find a list...

Become a better reader with this interactive game. Hunt for pictures words with Y as a long E sound.

Interactive concentration game with three levels. Matching short vowel words and pictures. vocabulary words: red, fan, bus, sun, hat, bag, jump, lamp, bell, duck, tent, drum, skunk, bench, dress, pants, shells, clock.

Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.

Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.

Create short IG words using picture cues. Drag the initial letter sound to spell each short I word. Match pictures to make words: pig, wig, big, dig.

There are three levels in this interactive word game. Match the initial and final sounds to create a word to name the picture. ER words: herd, fern; IR words: bird, girl; UR words: curl, surf.

Learners will be doing their own illustrations of the vocabulary words from "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!" Students will also practice the skill of sequencing.

Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to learners and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to learners.

Classroom teachers will learn about previewing vocabulary words, an important instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the previewing of vocabulary, find research that supports the previewing of vocabulary, and find...

This website is full of links to word games and quizzes including game of the day and word of the day links.

During this lesson young scholars learn new vocabulary words through an enjoyable children's book. Students use knowledge of the new words to create a slideshow and original story.

In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.

Three activities including a matching game, a concentration game, and a word search puzzle for students to use while learning and practicing the meanings of various root words.

A short story about a little Octopus named Ollie who was teased for having only seven legs. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.

A short story about a little boy named Maxwell who lost a tooth at school. A link to vocabulary and reading comprehension questions is available.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students sort nouns into categories as well as additional activities that focus on defining nouns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a contextual setting.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a different contextual setting.

Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...