Download or read book Synonym Antonym Homonym Word Games written by Mary E. Sterling and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms Antonyms and Homonyms written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference with more than twelve thousand synonyms, ten thousand antonyms, and two thousand homonyms can help students expand their vocabulary and find the perfect words to express their thoughts and feelings.
Download or read book Reading Fundamentals Homophones Synonyms and Antonyms written by Carolyn Hurst and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activities in this book will help your students understand what homophones, synonyms, and antonyms are and how they can use them to strengthen their writing skills. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings -- like the words flower and flour. Synomyms are words the have the same meaning, or nearly the same meaning -- like the words earth and world. Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of each other -- like the words day and night. Several hands-on activities for each of these three important parts of speech are included in this 48-page book. Perfect for emerging readers and writers and ESL students.
Download or read book Playing With Language written by Marcy Zipke and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All students can benefit from a deeper understanding of how our language works. Playing With Language shows elementary school educators (K–6) how to think about, talk about, and manipulate language out of context. This cognitive skill set, known as metalinguistic awareness, is an important component of reading ability. This practical guide scales activities and teaching suggestions to students’ age, linguistic background, and individual strengths and challenges. The authors offer suggestions for introducing metalinguistic concepts like phonological, semantic, and syntactic awareness with fun activities like games, songs, rhymes, and riddles. The book also identifies and explains research that supports using metalinguistic teaching with diverse students and English learners to build skills in multiple areas, including reading comprehension and decoding ability. Teachers will find that students introduced to language play become continually engaged with language, finding real-world examples with wonder and delight. Book Features: Compiles information on all forms of metalinguistic awareness (MA), spanning different linguistic units and developmental reading levels.Contains personal anecdotes and classroom-testedÊinstructional recommendations for encouraging language play. Presents research on how individual language skills affect reading ability.Offers suggestions for full lesson plans with small groups or whole classes of children, as well as ideas for infusing MA activities into everyday exchanges and book choices.
Download or read book Games and Activities to Reinforce Reading Skills written by Florence Vogel Shankman and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ready to Use Writing Proficiency Lessons Activities written by Carol H. Behrman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Ready-to-Use Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities gives classroom teachers and language arts specialists a powerful and effective tool for addressing curriculum standards and competencies at the eighth-grade level and preparing their students for comprehensive assessment testing. Writing Proficiency Lessons & Activities books are also available from Jossey-Bass at the fourth-grade level and the tenth-grade level. Included are a variety of easy-to-use, reproducible activity sheets that provide application and review the basic language skills as well as extensive practice in producing the types of writing called for in standardized tests. For easy use, the 240-plus student activity sheets are printed in a big 8-1/2" x 11" format that lays flat for photocopying. The activities are organized into nine sections. Here is just a sample of the topics covered in Sections 1-5: CHOOSING THE RIGHT WORD: words often confused, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, adverbs vs. adjectives, sensory words, similes, metaphors, and double negatives MAKING MECHANICS AND USAGE WORK FOR YOU: apostrophes, hyphens, end marks, commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, titles, and misplaced modifiers. WRITING SENTENCES: subjects and predicates, subject-verb agreement, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and sentence types WRITING PARAGRAPHS: writing a topic sentence, writing a concluding sentence, developing the topic, using tense consistently, using transitional words, and staying on the topic ESSAY-WRITING TECHNIQUES: brainstorming, clustering, outlining, writing an introductory paragraph with a question or a surprising statement, developing the topic using examples, avoiding irrelevant details, writing a concluding paragraph, proofreading, and writing a five-paragraph essay.
Download or read book Cool Antonyms Synonyms Homophones Homonyms Easy Intermediate Advanced Practice Workbook written by Cool Antonyms and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you will love is this book features a ton of different TYPES of Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones & Homonyms activity pages from easy to more advanced for your child to practice. This activity book feature: - Word Searches - Circle the correct spelling - Cross word puzzle - Write your own words activity - Write the definition and sentences activity - Fill in the blank This book will help your child learn, practice, and improve. Great choice for homeschool curriculum. There is also an answer key in the back of the book.
Download or read book Power Practice Word Games Gr 2 3 eBook written by Linda Schwartz and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young Writers written by Jan Burda and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Learning Year by Year written by Rebecca Rupp and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features: The integral subjects to be covered within each grade Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level Recommended books to use as texts for every subject Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness
Download or read book Unique Primary English written by Yinka A. Amuda and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique Primary English (Level 1) is especially designed for very young pupils and new learners of English in order to reach a globally competitive standard. This book will provide an excellent background for learners of English Language starting from the basics. It is offers an excellent focus on grammar, comprehension and vocabulary, as well as reading, speaking, and elementary writing skills. Unique Primary English (Level 1) is complemented by a valuable CD, as well as an e-book version, both useful within our fast-growing technological world. The CD enhances the learning process, supporting the book, with an emphasis on pronunciation, diction, and fluency in reading and speaking. It is aimed at laying a proper foundation for learners to acquire quality English and build on it to an elevated standard. The book also contains a large, varied selection of dialogue, which promotes and enhances pupils' proficiency in speaking. Pupils are encouraged to act out the scenes and also to engage in interactive tasks where they sometimes compare, draw from, and use their own experiences. Having acquired a high level of speaking, reading, and writing at an elementary level, it becomes easier to critically examine oneself and improve on the language at different levels or stages of learning. Over six hundred coloured illustrations are featured to help visualise and stimulate learning. The test exercises at the end of each chapter (which are also complemented by vivid coloured illustrations), recap selected elements within the chapters and are meant to evaluate the performance of learners after each module. This unique method, regulated in all twenty chapters of the book, is meant to assist learners in the mastery of the language in a more rapid style. It is a very useful method for improving literacy. Unique Primary English (Level 1) is aimed at contributing to the continuous development of English language at the elementary stages. It is expected to increase the learners' knowledge and ability, thereby enhancing their capability in a world where English has become one of the foremost international and official languages.
Download or read book 101 Fresh Fun Critical thinking Activities written by Laurie Rozakis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging activities and reproducibles to develop kids' higher-level thinking skills.
Download or read book Interventions for Struggling Learners written by Gretchen Goodman and published by Crystal Springs Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literacy Game written by John Stannard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital introduction and critical appraisal for practitioners and students, TheLiteracy Game examines the origins, evolution and impact of the NLS, and provides a fully comprehensive contribution to the teaching of literacy and the management of educational change.
Download or read book Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum Year 10 2nd Edition written by Anne-Marie Brownhill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the popular Essential English Skills for the Australian Curriculum series has been updated for todays students. Providing support for differentiated learning and featuring flexible ICT tasks that encourage language and literacy development, the series is ideal for both classroom use and homework. The multilevel approach to key language and literacy skills caters to the different learning abilities in the classroom and assists teachers in matching tasks to the skill of their students. Three levels of carefully graded questions (Test yourself, Extend yourself and Challenge yourself) give every student an achievable starting point and the opportunity to enhance their skills.New text extracts and examples of classic and popular texts provide the very best support for todays students, while covering the requirements of the Australian Curriculum and the cross curricula priorities.Fully integrated tech challenges and online tasks encourage students to explore the impact of technology on their own language and literacy development. Each workbook includes a dedicated introduction to ICT in the classroom - Using Digital Technology for English skills - suggesting applications that can be used with the workbook.Solutions are available for teachers in downloadable PDF format. To access, teachers must activate the unique 16-character code provided by your Cambridge Education Resource Consultant in your Cambridge GO teacher account. Contact us for more details.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Comedy Writing written by James Mendrinos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is serious business—and serious money. In this guide, comedian, writer, and teacher James Mendrinos explains the principles of comedy and how to apply them to forms from stand-up to sitcoms- including fiction, film, speeches, articles, essays, and more. He also includes exercises designed to hone the craft, break through writer’s block, and tailor a piece to its intended audience. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • Foolproof advice for writing scripts, feature films, plays, cartoons, stand-up jokes—even working humor into your presentation at work. • Terrific techniques for brainstorming, free associating, and drafting lists to make your writing better—and funnier. • Stand-up tips on identifying with and writing for your audience and genre. • Navigation tools for the inroads to marketing and selling your comedy.
Download or read book Nelson English written by John Jackman and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1998-04-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson English has been specifically designed to ensure that you cover the basics of the National Curriculum and other UK curricula. Activities cover NLS Text, Word and Sentence Level objectives.
