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Giant Irregular Verb List – Plus, Understanding Regular and Irregular Verbs

Please Note: This page contains just one section of the FREE 47-page Giant Verb List PDF found here. The PDF version contains the Giant Verb List, the Giant Irregular Verb List, a Helping Verbs List,...

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Giant Verb List: 3,250 Verbs Plus Spelling Rules and Irregular Verbs Marked

Please Note: This page contains just one section of the FREE 47-page Giant Verb List PDF found here. The PDF version contains the Giant Verb List, the Giant Irregular Verb List, a Helping Verbs List,...

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Adjectives and Adverbs: Comparative and Superlative Forms – Complete Lists

Adjectives and adverbs have a close relationship. Both are modifiers: 1) adjectives modify nouns, and 2) adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. This close relationship is why we can...

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LIST: 4,800 Adjectives

(PDF Version) Below you will find the largest list of adjectives you are likely to find anywhere! Small lists of adjectives treat the words that are on the list as the good adjectives or the only...

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The Real Difference Between Roots, Base Words, and Stems

Teachers frequently debate this question: What’s the difference between a root, base word, and stem? The reason teachers are forced to debate this question is that their textbooks present a model that...

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Why You Should Teach Your Students Morphology and Word Building

Morphological instruction is a part of vocabulary instruction, and vocabulary instruction is a critical component of everything we teach students across the curriculum. Put simply, vocabulary...

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Vocabulary Instruction and Reading Comprehension

Word knowledge has particular importance in literate societies. It contributes significantly to achievement in the subjects of the school curriculum, as well as in formal and informal speaking and...

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Evidence-Based Vocabulary Instruction

Occasionally, I post valuable summaries of evidence-based teaching strategies—i.e., what the research says works. I can post these summaries because they are either government-funded projects or have...

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Vocabulary Acquisition and Struggling Readers: The Vicious Circle of the...

Reading instruction is primarily composed of five components: 1) phonemic awareness, 2) phonics, 3) vocabulary development, 4) reading fluency, and 5) reading comprehension strategies (National Reading...

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How Many Words Do Students Need to Learn?

Words are at the center of everything students learn in school. If students are not learning new vocabulary words, they are not learning the content. If students are not learning all of the new...

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Teaching Vocabulary: Breadth vs. Depth

What does it mean to know a word? Do you know any of these words? How many and how well? Q  sabretache, run, thrombosis, frugivore, elecampane, electroencephalogram, turnip If you’re like most people,...

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How to Improve Your Students’ Vocabulary

Why should you improve your students’ vocabulary? Well, it is an important component of improving your students’ reading comprehension, and it is essential to comprehend the subject content....

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What I Learned About Teaching ELLs, ESL, and ELA by Learning a Second Language

I learned and became fluent in a second language as an adult. Not only was I an adult, but I was a full-time teacher as well. I’m going to take you through my process of learning a language. As...

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4,640 Nouns and 18 Noun Suffixes: Giant List of Untouchable Nouns

We will cover a lot on this page, and you will leave with a fantastic newfound understanding of nouns. You will want to spend some time with the giant list of 4,640 nouns that follow, and you will want...

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Giant List of 3,300 –ly Adverbs Plus Example Sentences

It’s amazing! You have just found over 3,300 –ly adverbs! So, what will you do with over 3,300 –ly adverbs? Here’s what you will do! 1. You will improve your vocabulary. 2. You will improve your...

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How to Teach Vocabulary Skills Across the Curriculum

Are you a vocabulary teacher? Yes, you are! All teachers are vocabulary teachers, whether they know it or not. It’s so because the subject content and the content vocabulary are inherently linked. If...

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