This document lists the 300 most common English words for ESL students to study and learn.
Fourteen year-old Greg Ridley gets into an argument with his father over his bad grades and his father forbids him to play basketball. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This TED video traces the etymology of the word "true" to show how there can be a whole story in a single word.
This is a story of an American-born Chinese daughter, her immigrant mother and their very different beliefs and hopes. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
A student handout on strategies for understanding and defining difficult vocabulary.
Students will be the definition of vocabulary experts as they use the skills they learn in this lesson to track, define, and ultimately master unfamiliar words.
Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs. In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play. Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet's Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.
Students will gain a deeper understanding of unknown words by using context clues.
in this lesson, students extend their vocabulary by participating in the Vocabulary Bingo activity. This activity can be used with other subjects to help improve vocabulary.
In this lesson students review vocabulary by drawing pictures and writing sentences on index cards.
Student will gain understanding of a writer's use of context clues. Students will navigate through a Powerpoint workshop.
A sixth grade boy lives with his mother. The mother maintains their livelihood with a blue collar job. In the story, William wants to find a cure for unhappiness that he sees in his mother and a man on the street. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This TED video traces the etymology and history of the English language.
In this lesson, students create flash cards that explain often confused words in order to understand their correct usage in writing.
In this lesson, students read excerpt 5, focusing on Douglass's failed escape attempt. They will focus on identifying different types of figurative language.