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Vocabulary, Vocabulary games - www.myvocabulary.com Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases:"Particular Topic", "Grade Relevant Text and Subject Area" and"Context". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6Grade & Subject-Relevant Text/Area: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers:(Reading: Informational Text) RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4(Reading: Literature) RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. Vocabulary, Vocabulary Games - www.myvocabulary.com
Word list, List of words - www.myvocabulary.com Q: How can I use 775 word lists from A: Suggestions for usage for teachers, parents, students and life-long learners! Choose 15-25 words that are unknown to you from the list provided. Look up and write down the definition, part of speech and use the new word in a sentence of more than 6 words. Practice using the new word. The matrix below features 775 different word lists in 16 different subjects, categories or topics. Lesson Plans: Choose an area of interest and select words appropriate to your grade levels.
Archive Students > Headway Student's Site > Wordzone > Archive Headway's Word of the Week archive ⇒ Learn this week's word. Choose the word you want to study: act knee afraid laugh bite lazy bored lick break mind bury miss busy mood chat nasty cheap nervous cheek plain chew point chilly quarrel clear right cruel save draw scratch drop sketch earn spoil favourite stare filthy step fit stranger funny support furious tasty hit tip hug trick huge upset kick ↑ top ↑ AddThis Sharing Buttons Essential lexical tools With all my love and respect for the corpus, it is admittedly not for everyone. If you are less linguistically minded but would still like to take advantage of online linguistic corpora and what they have to offer for the classroom, there are a number of corpus-derived tools which some may find more user-friendly. Collocations Teaching a new word? Don’t forget to provide a couple of its common collocations. Just-the-word This easy-to-use visualisation application is my favourite collocations tool because it enables you to look up multi-part verbs as well (unlike the other two mentioned above). For ideas on how to help your students build their collocational knowledge using just-the-word, see my activity on the TeachingEnglish website: Playing with Lexical Cards Oxford Collocation Dictionary www.ozdic.com I am less impressed with this one. HASK collocation browser - NEW! Another visualisation tool that illustrates frequency distribution for collocations of a given word, which looks like this:
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