10 Word Wall Middle School Activities & Games For Geography and All Subjects
By Geography & Math Made Easy
Looking for ways to use your work wall in a fun and interactive way? Try these 10 word wall activities and games.
Games/Activities Includes:
°Snap! Word Wall Lesson
°Wipe out Relay
°Mystery Word Challenge
°Mystic Mind Reader
°Hot Cold Game
°Word Toss
°Head Hunters
°Misplaced Word
°Musical Words
°Comic Commentators
Students will love these games as exercise or review. Great for retention.
200+ Premade Geography Terms for Word Wall + Blank Strips to Make Your Own
By Geography & Math Made Easy
121+ Geography term for use of a Word Wall + blank strip for extra words. Font: 39 Smooth
Absolute location
Accessibility resource
Acculturation
Acid rain
Active volcano
Agriculture
Altitude
Archipelago
Ash
Atlas
Atmosphere
Axis
Bay
Bedrock
Biosphere
Birth rate
Boundary
Butte
Canal
Cape
Capital goods
Capitalism
Cardinal directions
Carrying capacity
Cartographer
Cinder cone
Climate
Colonialism
Command economy
Commercial farming
Communism
Compass rose
Geography
Coniferous
Constitutional monarchy
Consumer
Continent
Continental climate
Continental divide
Contour lines
Country
Crater
Crust
Cryosphere
Cultural traits
Cultural diffusion
Cultural perspective
Cultural product
Culture
Death rate
Deciduous forest
Deforestation
Degrees
Delta
Demography
Developed nation
Dictatorship
Direct democracy
Distortion
Dome
Dormant volcano
Dry farming
Earth-sun relationships
Economy
Ecosystem
Elevation
Emergent coastline
Enclave
Equator
Erosion
Escarpment
Estuary
Extended family
Extinct volcano
Fault
Fault zone
Fjord
Fossil fuel
Geosphere
Glacier
Globe
Goods
Government
Great circle route
Grid
Gulf
Hemisphere
High latitudes
Horizon
Hot spot
Human features
Human resource
Human-environment Interaction
Hydrosphere
Ice age
Igneous rock
Immigrant
Imperialism
Intermediate directions
International Date Line
Intracoastal waterway system
Island
Key
Latitude lines
Lava
Legend
Legume
Life expectancy
Life-cycle stage
Lithosphere
Longitude lines
Low latitudes
Magma
Mantle
Manufacturing
Map
Maritime climate
Market economy
Mediterranean climate
Meridian
Mesa
Mesquite
Middle class
Middle latitudes
Migration
Minute
Mixed economy
Monarchy
Movement
Mudflow
Multilingual
Nation
Nationalism
Natural resource
Nonrenewable resource
Nuclear family
Ocean
Orbit
Parallel
Permafrost
Physical features
Place
Plain
Plate tectonics
Population
Population density
Population distribution
Precipitation
Primary sector
Prime Meridian
Producer
Push factor
Pull factor
Push-pull theory
Quaternary sector
Raw material
Recyclable resource
Region
Relative location
Renewable resource
Representative democracy (republic)
Resource
Rotation
Revolution
Rural area
Scale
Sea level
Secondary sector
Sedimentary rock
Seismograph
Services
Sharecropping
Shield
Shield volcano
Sinkhole
Snowline
Social class
Social structure
Socialism
Soluble
Standard of living
Staple product
Stratovolcano
Subduction zone
Subsistence farming
Suburban area
Sustainable yield
Taiga
Territory
Tertiary sector
Theocracy
Threshold
Time distance
Topographic map
Topography
Tropic of Cancer
Tropics
Tundra
Underemployment
Underpopulation
Urban area
Urbanization
Valley
Vent
Vertical climate
Volcanic avalanche
Volcano
Want
Water pollution
Water table
Weather
Weathering
Zoning
Esperanza Rising-Novel by P. Ryan-Historical Background & Vocab Introduction-PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the author, and genre. photo visuals, and video clips support the novel details. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment.
GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading historical story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards
AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms
PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PowerPoint lesson!
PowerPoint Slides:
1. **Author Bio: ** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time-period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions: ** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
4.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech: ** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences: ** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice: ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes
11 **Fun Fact** video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension
DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation
PRINTABLE USES: Worksheets, word walls, interactive notebooks
Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.
This lesson is also available in PowerPoint.
Enjoy!
-From Kiwious About Vocab!
Click the link below to view Esperanza Rising Vocabulary included in this lesson!
Esperanza Rising Vocabulary
NUMBER THE STARS-Historical Background Introduction & CHAPTER Vocabulary PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
This product provides digital pre-reading resources: factual historical background context (photos, maps, music and links), complete vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment PPTS for the historical fiction novel, Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. BL 4.5
GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension aligned to standards
AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support and ESL or virtual classrooms
PDF FILE Each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 6 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson!
POWERPOINTS: Please be aware that YOUTUBE LINKS open to a standard warning page which must be clicked to access video.
• Title slide
-genre, author photo and short bio.
• Historical Background PowerPoint
-setting slides
-Location photos with maps
-Time period photos
-Live link to period music clip
-Link to historical video clips
• Vibrant Vocab PowerPoints divided by chapter
-bold photos appear without word for inference making
-vocab word which 'slides in' so photo can be first WITHOUT the word
-part of speech
-concise definition
***Differentiated Worksheet-**to be used as a pretest, posttest, or practice.
*Quizlet practice link
*Part of speech and connotation sort
Click the link below to view Number the Stars Vocabulary included in this lesson!
Number the Stars Vocabulary
ACTIVITIES:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Group discussion/prediction
· Predictions for text
· Distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Individual electronic handouts-
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Test review
· Writing assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech/Word Study
Printables for word wall and interactive notebooks
This lesson is also available in Google Slides.
Holiday ELA Unit: Reading INTRODUCTION for 2 short stories & Writing Lesson, PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
This PowerPoint Holiday Unit Language Arts Bundle includes 2 Prereading Introductions for short stories: The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson and The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. PDF links included for both stories
Each Introductory lesson provides pre-reading information for the story’s author and genre. Bold photo visuals and engaging video clips support the story details, as well as vocabulary study, practice, assessment, and printable organizers.
*Plus* a complete Writing Lesson with holiday prompts and grading rubrics is included in this bundle.
..........................PREREADING. PPTS..................
Prereading:
1. **Author Biography** We provide author biographies for each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the story in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**Highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
4. **Vocab with Concise Definitions and Part of Speech: ** Our lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context. Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
Vibrant Vocab slides:
The Little Match Girl: urchin, farthing, cower, burnished, transparent, gaily-colored, ascend, lustre, stark, capitally
The Gift of the Magi: instigate, vestibule, agile, falter, ransack, prudence, ravage, assertion, chronicle, coveted
5.**Quizlet Practice Link ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
6. **Fun Fact Images and Videos** These features highlight unique elements of the text to aid comprehension
PDF FILE.
Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing printable worksheets to be used with the lesson!
**Grammar Sort**
Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
**Connotation Sort**
Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
**Context Clues Sentences, Word Bank and Key: **
Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
**Vocabulary Organizer**
This worksheet allows the students to infer the meaning from the animated vocabulary slide. After students complete the organizer, it is a great reference sheet.
**Synonym and Antonym Word Study**
The graphic organizer allows the students to explore the variations in meaning of the new vocabulary word.
............................WRITING....PPT................
This holiday inspired Vocabulary Writing Lesson is perfect for any language arts class grades 6 through 12.
VOCABULARY: The lesson includes 10 highly advanced vocabulary words with three-fold animated photo slides. These vivid slides present a bold photo, the definition and part of speech for each of these challenging new words:
Enigmatic
Quintessence
Resplendent
Melancholy
Pernicious
Verisimilitude
Idyllic
Incandescent
Sanguine
Halcyon
WRITING: The 10 rigorous vocabulary words have been woven into three higher level writing prompts for creative written response. In addition to the imaginative writing prompts, a teacher-friendly grading rubric is included; designed to highlight the use of the advanced vocabulary.
PRACTICE: Eight printable graphic organizers for the newly learned words are part of this lesson. They provide grammar review, grammar sort, connotation review, connotation sort, and word study exploring synonyms, antonyms etc.
ASSESSMENT: A context clue fill-in-the-blank worksheet is provided which may be used for practice or assessment. Also included, is a vocabulary Quizlet which can be used for practice or assessment.
This standard-aligned material is for use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms.
This lesson is also available in PowerPoint.
Thanksgiving INTERDISCIPLINARY Unit: PreReading, Writing, History PowerPoint
By Kiwious About Vocab
Thanksgiving INTERDISCIPLINARY POWERPOINT Bundle includes
3 cross-curricular lessons for the holiday:
..............................HISTORY MINI-LESSON-...................
What is Thanksgiving? -
This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.
.......................................READING LESSON...............................
PREREADING SHORT STORY INTRODUCTION provides digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for the short story, *The Thanksgiving Visitor, by Truman Capote.
* Audio Link to text included
PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.
POWERPOINT PREREADING INTRODUCTION
1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
Vocabulary Words: shiftless, surly, goad, menagerie, quibble, mirth, sacrilegious, skitter, suffuse, relegated
4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10. **Fun Facts** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension
......................................WRITING LESSON-................................
This Google Slide Lesson in Gratitude Writing Prompts package provides 15 notable quotations for students to ponder, analyze and critique in a written paragraph format. The quotes express thankfulness and gratitude; perfect for Thanksgiving.
This month-long collection of higher-level thinking quotes will provide a catalyst for summarizing, paraphrasing, using synonyms, antonyms and thesaurus words in an organized sequence of complete sentences using the templates provided.
PRODUCT CONTAINS:
*PDF FILE: daily directions, teacher suggestions, hints and tips to improve written responses, printable writing templates for student support.
*GOOGLE SLIDE LESSON: 15 soothing, aesthetic quotation slides to be used daily or printed for the classroom selected specifically for student analysis
SEE what teachers are saying...
“What a wonderful and relaxing way to start each morning! I love the quotes!! This resource set my kids up for success and gave me a very specific method to improve their writing.“
These lessons are also available in GOOGLE SLIDES
Thanksgiving History Lesson plus 2 Thanksgiving story vocab introductions PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
Thanksgiving ELA POWERPOINT Bundle: 2 Prereading Introductions *plus* Thanksgiving History Mini-lesson
A HISTORY MINI-LESSON-POWERPOINT
What is Thanksgiving? -
This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.
.............................................PLUS..............................................................
2 PowerPoint PREREADING SHORT STORY INRODUCTIONS provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for the 2 GRATITUDE THEMED short stories; perfect for Thanksgiving:
**TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O. Henry
**THANK YOU MA’AM by Langston Hughes
* PDF LINKS to texts are included
PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.
POWERPOINT PREREADING INTRODUCTIONS
1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10. **Fun Facts** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension
DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion/prediction
· Create predictions about text7
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation
PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks
These lessons are also available in Google Slides.
Esperanza Rising *Hispanic Heritage* Background Introductions & Vocab-Google
By Kiwious About Vocab
This Hispanic Heritage Bundle includes: an informational mini-lesson on Hispanic Heritage, *plus* an introductory historical background and vocabulary lesson to novel, Esperanza Rising, written by the HISPANIC author, Pam Munoz Ryan.
For use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms.
The digital MINI-LESSON contains :
10 colorful slides introducing elements of Hispanic culture such as language, music, geographic location, food, religion, Hispanic-American contributors and authors. Each slide is filled with photos, maps, as well as, music and video links. This is the perfect prelude to the following short story lessons .
PowerPoint Prereading Lesson:
1. **Author Biography** We provide author biographies for each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the story in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**Highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time-period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
4. **Vocab with Concise Definitions and Part of Speech: ** Our lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context. Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
5.**Quizlet Practice Link ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
6. **Fun Fact Images and Videos** These features highlight unique elements of the text to aid comprehension
PDF FILE.
Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing printable worksheets to be used with the lesson!
**Grammar Sort**
Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
**Connotation Sort**
Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
**Context Clues Sentences, Word Bank and Key: **
Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
**Vocabulary Organizer**
This worksheet allows the students to infer the meaning from the animated vocabulary slide. After students complete the organizer, it is a great reference sheet.
**Synonym and Antonym Word Study**
The graphic organizer allows the students to explore the variations in meaning of the new vocabulary word.
DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation
PRINTABLE USES: Worksheets, word walls, interactive notebooks
This bundle is also available in Google Slides.
Enjoy!
-From Kiwious About Vocab!
Click the link below to view Esperanza Rising Vocabulary included in this lesson!
Esperanza Rising Vocabulary
CREATIVE WRITING PROMPTS-3 complete lessons, PROMPTS, VOCAB, checklists, rubrics
By Kiwious About Vocab
This powerful ELA PowerPoint CREATIVE WRITING BUNDLE provides 3 complete digital and printable lessons filled with high-quality resources to ENRICH WRITING, improve vocabulary, and review grammar skills.
GOAL: to enrich student creative writing skills, expand student vocabulary, introduce powerful words, improve grammatical skills, focus on of parts of speech, and strengthen tone and mood by recognizing word connotation according to grade level standards
AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL , virtual, homeschool or Summer School classroom
PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 13 printable WORKSHEETS to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include VOCABULARY ORGANIZERS, STORY MAP, STUDENT CHECKLIST, TEACHER RUBRIC, as well as, Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.
EACH OF THE 3 POWERPOINTS CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING
· Concise definition
· Part of speech
·Parts of Speech definitions; noun, verb, adjective, adverb
· Grammar sort
· What is connotation?
· Connotation sort
· Vocabulary game link
· Context clue sentence worksheet/ assessment pages/answer key
· Themed writing prompts
Two Dreamers, Baseball in April, Broken Chain short stories intro & vocab PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
This PowerPoint bundle provides 3 complete digital and printable short story lessons by Gary Soto. Each is filled with pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment
Gary Soto short stories:
TWO DREAMERS, BASEBALL IN APRIL, BROKEN CHAIN
GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension aligned to standards
AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms
EACH POWERPOINT:
1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes
11 **Fun Fact** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension •
DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion/prediction
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation
PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks
Enjoy -from Kiwious About Vocab!
English/French Sight Words Vocabulary Flashcards Bundle
By Zaazoua Mostapha
Make your ESL classroom look different from a regular education room by considering these bilingual English/French vocabulary sight word labels!
Each label takes up 1/15 of a page so they are nice and big, but not too obtrusive. Each card features the word in English and French. To help aid meaning, I've included high-quality illustrations and pictures.
These picture and word vocabulary flashcards are perfect for any student new to English or French language learning!
You'll Get:
Be sure to check out my other printables! It is going to help your students or kids Click HERE!
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