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FREE Grade 7 Vocabulary Word Lists
This FREE research-based word list consists of Tier 2 words, developed from Averil Coxhead’s high frequency Academic Word List. The perfect resource for teaching the CCSS…
FREE Grade 6 Vocabulary Word Lists
This FREE research-based word list consists of Tier 2 words, developed from Averil Coxhead’s high frequency Academic Word List. The perfect resource for teaching the CCSS…
FREE Grade 5 Vocabulary Word Lists
This FREE research-based word list consists of Tier 2 words, developed from Averil Coxhead’s high frequency Academic Word List. The perfect resource for teaching the CCSS…
FREE Grade 4 Vocabulary Word Lists
This FREE research-based word list consists of Tier 2 words, developed from Averil Coxhead’s high frequency Academic Word List. The perfect resource for teaching the CCSS…
FREE Grade 8 Vocabulary Word Lists
This FREE research-based word list consists of Tier 2 words, developed from Averil Coxhead’s high frequency Academic Word List. The perfect resource for teaching the CCSS…
English Adjective Order
When using more than one adjective to modify the same noun or pronoun in a sentence, usually follow this order of adjectival functions. Lesson plans for…
There, Their, and They’re
Anything worth teaching is worth teaching well. Students (and even presidents) have problems using the there, their,and they're words appropriately and spelling them correctly. Indeed, linguists tend to…
Don’t Use Mad Libs to Teach Grammar
Mad Libs should not be used to teach grammar. Now some would argue that providing a context for incidental learning is, indeed, teaching. Some may suggest that…