Vocabulary Ideas from Santa Maria-Bonita School District I love this site! If you teach grades K-5, you will love the vocabulary cards and connections for stories.
Deb Smith Vocabulary Ideas This is a terrific collection of research and vocabulary strategy ideas.
Flocabulary It’s time for hip-hop in the classroom. You’ll find lesson plans that include the use of music and rap to help students learn.
High Frequency Words and Vocabulary From Education Place, this link has ideas for teaching high-frequency words.
Project Read – Teaching Vocabulary Includes research and strategies for teaching vocabulary. Also includes links to other sites.
ProTeacher Ideas for Teaching Vocabulary – A wealth of ideas for teaching vocabulary with many links to even more ideas.
Resource Room Multi-Sensory Activities for Teaching Vocabulary This site reminds us that “Developing vocabulary as part of knowledge structure requires much more energy and focus than memorizing terms.” You’ll find guidelines and strategy ideas for teaching vocabulary.
Teach-nology Vocabulary Ideas This link will take you to ideas for teaching science vocabulary and then you can branch out from there. Of course the ideas for science can be used for any content area.
Vocabulary Instruction and Reading Comprehension From Eric Digest; a wealth of information.
West Middle School Vocabulary Strategies – Strategies from a school – with links to additional strategies.
Building Academic Vocabulary from Oklahoma State Department of Education. Also includes links to terrific resources such as Pics4Learning which has copyright friendly materials for educators.
Handout: Working Draft, Vocabulary List, Grade 3 Mathematics
For grades K-6, vocabulary cards for themed units. Very good! Includes visuals! The URL is loooooooong, so just click here.
Vocabulary Ideas from Santa Maria-Bonita School District I love this site! If you teach grades K-5, you will love the vocabulary cards and connections for stories.
West Middle School Vocabulary Strategies Strategies from a school – with links to additional strategies.
Dolch 95 Common Nouns – downloadable document
Dolch 1000 Word List – downloadable document
Dolch 220 Basic List – downloadable document
Dolch Story Using all 230 Words – downloadable document
Free Rice – http://freerice.com/ This has quick online play for English Words, Elements, Math, Foreign Language, Social Studies and more. It’s fun and when you play, you’re also contributing rice to feed the hungry.
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Examples of Teaching Lessons for Vocabulary