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7.4a: Root Words and Affixes (Prefix/ Suffix)

Reading Fun
For the Teacher
Rooting Out Words
Short Circuit: An Affix Game
There Is Audio to This Game!
Skillwise: Spelling
The "-able" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-ant" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-er" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-ful" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-ible" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-less" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-ly" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "-ous" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "dis-" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "im-" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "mis-" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
The "re-" List
A Comprehensive List of Affixes
TV 411: More Root Words
TV 411: Root Words and Their Families 1
Quia: Root Words: Quiz 1
Quia: Root Words: Quiz 2
Quia: Root Words: Quiz 3
Quia: Root Words: Quiz 4

7.4a: Word Derivations

Word Derivations from Latin to English
Many Examples of Word Derivatives: Latin/ English

7.4b: Synonyms and Antonyms

01. A K-2 Antonyms Worksheet
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01. A K-2 Synonyms Worksheet
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02. A 3-5 Antonyms Worksheet
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02. A 3-5 Synonyms Worksheet
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03. A 6-8 Antonyms Worksheet
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03. A 6-8 Synonyms Worksheet
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04. A 9-12 Antonyms Worksheet
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04. A 9-12 Synonyms Worksheet
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Merriam-Webster.com
An Online Reference Dictionary
Synonym Thesaurus with Antonyms and Definitions
An Online Reference Thesaurus
Thesaurus.com
An Online Reference Thesaurus

7.4a: Dictionary: Guide Words

Using Guide Words
A Great Guide Word Game

7.4a: Word Origins

The Big List: 400 Unusual Word Origins
From WordOrigins.org.
What First Names Mean?
The origin and meaning of first names...
What Last Names Mean?
The origin and meaning of last names...
Word Origins ( WiKi )
FOR YOUR WORKSHEET
Word Origins: MySpellIt Worksheet
Word Origins for the United States

7.4c: Alliteration

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
Welcome to the world's largest collection of tongue twisters! with 3560 entries in 118 languages
Rules for Alliteration
The "How to Do" of Alliteration.
Thinks.com TongueTwisters
Twisters that Follow the Alphabet?
TongueTwisters for Kids
Created by IndianChild

7.4c: Hyperbole

50 Hyperbole Examples
E-Reading Worksheets
Four Sets of Hyperbole Sentences
On-Line Worksheets/Web Examples of Hyperbole
Hyperbole Examples 1
YourDictionary.com
Hyperbole Examples: My Teacher Is so Old....
My Do Is so Ugly.../ My Sister Wears so Much Make-up...
Hyperbole in Reading Context Examples
Reading Context Examples of Hyperbole

7.4c: Idioms

English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions
Idioms and Phrases
Idioms: From English as a Second Language 1
A Fill-in-the-Black on Personal Feelings
Idioms: From English as a Second Language 2
A Fill-in-the-Black on Personal Feelings
Idioms: Many, Many Ideas and Types
The Idiom Site
This is the BEST SITE for class!

7.4c: Metaphors

7.4c: Onomatopoeia

101 Examples of Onomatopoeia in Sentences.
Matching "SOUNDS" with What Makes the Sound???
A Good Introduciton on "How to Use Onomatopoeia".
Onomatopoeia: Constructing a Comic Strip
Use Ideas from Onomatopoeia to Make a Comic
Onomatopoeia: Interactive Sounds
This site requires the use of "buds". Please SEEK TEACHER PERMISSION!
Rachelle Burk's RESOURCES for CHILDREN'S WRITERS

7.4c: Oxymorons

7.4c: Personification

Classic Examples of Personification in Poetry
William Blake/ Emily Dickinson/ Mother GOose
Serendipitous Personification for Poems: WritingFix: A Right-Brained Writing Prompt
A Click and Pick Writing Assignment!
50 Examples of Personification
EReading Worksheets
What Do These Examples of Personification Mean?
Buzzle
Personification: Worksheet 1
A 10 Question Worksheet
Personification Worksheet 2
A 10 Question Worksheet
Personification Worksheet 3
A 10 Question Worksheet
Humorous Examples of Personification in Poetry
Your Dictionary Examples
"The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson
An Example of Personification
"April Rain Song" by Langston Hughs
An Example of Personification
" The Wind" by James Stephens
An Example of Personification
"Trees," by Joyce Kilmer
An Example of Personification

7.4c: Similes

Said What.... Similes
A VERRRRRY Long list of Similes.... May be a great writing assignment!

7.4d: Connotations

Connotation 1
ccsdschools.com: A Worksheet
Connotation 2
clasrkschools.net: A Worksheet
Showing Connotation

7.4e: Multiple Meaning Words

00. Words for Multiple Meaning FlashCards
A Game to Make on THREE Levels!
A01. Multiple Meaning Words K2-1
(bowl, bolt, bat, bit, bark)
B01. Sound Alikes: 1st Grade 1
(to, too, two, be, bee, tea, tee, dew, due, do)
A02. Multiple Meaning Words K2-2
(clip, check, club, can, box)
B02. Sound Alikes: 1st Grade 2
(ad, add, buy, by, one, won, in, inn, see, sea)
A03. Multiple Meaning Words K2-3
(dress, fair, eye, dip, down)
B03. Sound Alikes: 2nd Grade 1
(son, sun, tail, tale, I, eye, or, oar, blew, blue)
A04. Multiple Meaning Words K2-4
(file, gum, hard, fly, foot)
B04. Sound Alikes: 2nd Grade 2
(bare, bear, dear, deer, fair, fare, there, their, they're)
A05. Multiple Meaning Words K2-5
(left, hit, jam, hide, last)
B05. Sound Alikes: 3rd Grade 1
(ail, ale, bait, bate, hair, hare, sail, sale, mail, male)
A06. Multiple Meaning Words K2-6
(miss, over, lie, nails, mean)
B06. Sound Alikes: 3rd Grade 2
(feat, feet, leak, leek, meat, meet, peek, peak, seam, seem)
A07. Multiple Meaning Words K2-7
(pet, play, pen, park, punch)
B07. Sound Alikes: 3rd Grade 3
(its, it's, nose, knows, hour, our, pail, pale)
A08. Multiple Meaning Words K2-8
(root, scale, ring,row, rock)
B08. Sound Alikes: 4th Grade 1
(pair, pare, pear, lie, lye, read, reed, soar, sore)
A09. Multiple Meaning Words K2-9
(sink, shake, stamp, seal, star)
B09. Sound Alikes: 4th Grade 2
(wrap, rap, knot, not, loan, lone, flea, flee, stair, stare)
A10. Multiple Meaning Words K2-10
(swing, tire, tap, stuff, stick)
B10. Sound Alikes: 4th Grade 3
(boar, bore, board, bored, flour, flower, sweet, suite, weak, week)
A11. Multiple Meaning Words K2-11
(stick, tap, tire, swing, stuff)
B11. Sound Alikes: 5th Grade 1
(throne, thrown, peer, pier, plain, plane, waist, waste, real, reel)
A12. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-1
(blue, bill, bear, bore, before)
B12. Sound Alikes: 5th Grade 2
(cent, scent, sent, cheap, cheep, ware, wear, where, we're, were)
A13. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-2
(change, chest, count, clear, brush)
B13. Sound Alikes: 5th Grade 3
(which, witch, rays, raise, who's, whose, ring, wring, threw, through)
A14. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-3
(fence, fan, ear, fork, game)
B14. Sound Alikes: 6th Grade 1
(accept, except, marry, merry, affect, effect, allowed, aloud, addition, edition)
A15. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-4
(head, kind, handle, jerk, kid)
B15. Sound Alikes: 6th Grade 2
(away, aweigh, aisle, I'll, fore, four, lean, lien, loot, lute)
150 Multiple Meaning Words
Each word Has Examples of TWO Multiple Meanings...
A16. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-5
(mold, log, mine, leaves, light)
B16. Sound Alikes: 7th Grade 1
(shear, sheer, sink, synch, air, heir, scene, seen)
A17. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-6
(plain, paste, organ, pitcher, note)
B17. Sound Alikes: 7th Grade 2
(sign, sine, flair, flare, bite, byte, nay, neigh, he'd, heed)
A18. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-7
(pound, pool, racket, range, pupil)
B18. Sound Alikes: 8th Grade 1
(thyme, time, praise, prays, preys, rain, reign, rein, heard, herd)
A19. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-8
(rose, rent, scale, right, saw)
B19. Sound Alikes: 8th Grade 2
(wail, whale, pause, paws, pores, pours, site, sight, cite)
A20. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-9
(spring, ship, shed, space, sole)
B20. Sound Alikes: 9th Grade 1
(throes, throws, rote, wrote, whine, wine, accent, assent, ascent, excess, access)
A21. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-10
(stoop, steer, squash, stern, stable)
B21. Sound Alikes: 9th Grade 2
(leak, leek, elude, allude, aid, aide, mall, maul, muscle, mussel)
A22. Multiple Meaning Words 3/5-11
(train, store, yard, trunk, watch)
B22. Sound Alikes: 9th Grade 3
(advice, advise, karat, carrot, discreet, discrete, slay, sleigh, altar, alter)
A23. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-1
(batter, against, bluff, case, bank)
B23. Sound Alikes: 10th Grade 1
(faint, feint, satire, satyr, marshal, martial, baron, barren, beach, beech)
A24. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-2
(chair, charge, company, cobbler, column)
B24. Sound Alikes: 10th Grade 2
(medal, meddle, storey, story, berth, birth, moose, mousse, muscle, mussel)
A25. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-3
(crane, either, date, dread, dusting)
B25. Sound Alikes: 11th Grade 1
(braise, brays, palette, pallet, naval, navel, boarder, border, gorilla, guerilla)
A26. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-4
(fire, initial, fuse, hail, junk)
B26. Sound Alikes: 11th Grade 2
(canvas, canvass, cereal, serial, principal, principle, coarse, course)
A27. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-5
(like, marker, loom, lash, late)
B27. Sound Alikes: 12th Grade 1
(whether, weather, complement, compliment, council, counsel, desert, dessert)
A28. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-6
(minor, novel, monitor, patient, mint)
B28. Sound Alikes: 12th Grade 2
(knead, need, currant, current, accept, except, leased, least, accede, exceed)
A29. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-7
(present, press, raise, period, peer)
A30. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-8
(rare, runner, right, rash, scale)
A31. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-9
(skin, school, shower, second, scan)
A32. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-10
(state, staple, spell, soil, speaker)
A33. Multiple Meaning Words 6/8-11
(suit, trace, strike, terrific, tackle)
A34. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-1
(bow, board, atmosphere, blunt, awful)
A35. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-2
(channel, coach, certain, buckle, cabinet)
A36. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-3
(custom, draft, current, doctor, cobble)
A37. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-4
(firm, frank, figure, flounder, fast)
A38. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-5
(hamper, hatch, ground, harbor, grave)
A39. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-6
(lounge, overlook, might, incomparable, lean)
A40. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-7
(pawn, page, periodic, pitch, palm)
A41. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-8
(refrain, reservation, plane, prune, riot)
A42. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-9
(sentence, spare, solution, season, sanction)
A43. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-10
(taxes, temper, swallow, spruce, temple)
A44. Multiple Meaning Words 9/12-11
(Lean, lounge, incomparable, overlook, might)

7.5a: Character Development

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7.5a: Conflict

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7.5a: Plot Structure

Very Short Stories for Plot Development Practice

Quackling
One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes!
King o’ the Cats
The Princess Mouse: A Tale from Finland
The Sea King’s Daughter: A Russian Legend
Master Man: A Tale from Nigeria
Savitri: A Tale form Ancient India
The Legend of Slappy Hooper: An American Tall Tale
Aarons world!
Forty Fortunes: A Tale form Iran
Master Maid: A Tale from Norway
If You Like These Stories: AaronShep Has Plenty More!

7.5a: Setting

A Introduction to the Setting of a Short Story
Four Setting Worksheets: Be Sure to Follow the Directions from Mr. Shipp for These Worksheets!
Great Book Templates!
A TEACHER SITE for SSR BOOKS!
What is the SETTING?
DEFINITION SHEET ONE!
Setting: THE FIVE THINGS
Flocabulary

7.5a: Theme

7.5b: Mood and Tone

7.5d: Flashback and Foreshadowing

Flashback and Foreshadowing Study Guide
Education.com
Flashback and Foreshadowing Practice Exercises 1
Practice 1: The Grasshopper and the Ant
Flashback and Foreshadowing Practice Exercises 2
Practice 2: The Fall of the House of Usher
Flashback and Foreshadowing Practice Exercises 3
Practice 3: Signs of the Times
Flashback and Foreshadowing in The Tell Tale Heart
This Is a Study Packet.
Flashback and Foreshadowing in a Study Packet
This Packet Contains MANY Skills!
What Is Foreshadowing? (A Variety of Movies)
A YouTube Lesson

7.5d: Irony

Irony Worksheet 1
Ereading Worksheets
Irony Worksheet 2
Ereading Worksheets
The Three Types of Irony PowerPoint
EReading Worksheets
Be an Irony Detective
EReading Worksheets
Ironic News Story 1
At a Diner
Ironic News Story 2
"Smiley" Faces
Ironic News Story 3
A Robbery
Ironic News Story 4
About the "Races"
Ironic News Story 4
A "Dead" End
Ironic News Story 5
A Prison "Break"
Ironic News Story 6
The "Gas" Bill
Ironic News Story 7
"Blacklist" - ed

7.5d:Imagery

7.5e: Make and Confirm Predictions

7.5g: Inferences and Conclusions

Inferences from WordPress

7.5h: The Main Idea

Main Idea: EReading 1
Main Idea: EReading 2
Main Idea: EReading 3
Main Idea: EReading 4
Main Idea: EReading 5
Main Idea: EReading 6 With Text Structure
Main Idea: EReading 1
Main Idea: EReading 1

7.5i: Summarizing and Supporting Details

7.5j: Author's Organizational Patterns

01. Cause and Effect; Comparison/ Contrast; Enumeration or Listing; Sequential or Chronological; Concept/ Definition; Generalization; and Process
You Need To Be Able to Differentiate Between Each of These!
02. Text Structure
EReading.com Gives a Brief Explanation About Each Organizational Pattern. Good(Overall) First Lesson Information.
03. Transitional Words for Organizational Patterns
A GREAT HELP-SHEET!
04. Cause and Effect: Audio Explaination
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
05. Chronological Order: Audio Explanation
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
06. Compare and Contrast: Audio Explanation
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
07. Order of Importance: Audio Explanation
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
08. Problem and Solution: Audio Explanation
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
09. Sequence or Chronological: Audio Explanation
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
10. Spatial or Descriptive: Audio Explanation
There Is Also Some Explanatory Text Here.
Organizational Sheet 04 (On-Line)
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Sheet 05 (On-Line)
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Sheet 06 (On-Line)
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 02
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 03
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 07
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 08
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 09
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 1
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 10
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 11
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 12
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 13
EReading.com Worksheet
Organizational Worksheet 14
EReading.com Worksheet
TEACHER: Here Are Some Useful Text Structure PowerPoints
EReading.com: PowerPoints and a Summative for the TEACHER

7.5k: Cause and Effect Relationships

01. This Unit Is ONLY About Cause and Effect Relationships.
You Are Taught to Differentiate Between Cause and Effect in the Organizational Patterns Unit!
Cause and Effect Playing Cards
The Card Gives You the "One"- You Have to Name the "Other".
Cause and Effect Worksheet 1
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 2
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 3
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 4
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 5
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 6
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 7
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause and Effect Worksheet 8
A Beginning Worksheet
Cause/ Effect Game 01
Use the Clue Words to Identify Cause/ Effect
Cause/ Effect Game 02
A Quia Matching Game
Cause/ Effect Game 03
A Quia Matching Game
Cause/ Effect Game 04
Audio: Identify: "Is it "cause" or "effect"? Sorry, a Little Child-Like- But DEAD ON with the Skill!
Cause/ Effect Game 05
Audio: Identify: "Is it "cause" or "effect"? Sorry, a Little Child-Like- But DEAD ON with the Skill!
Cause/ Effect Game 06
This Is a Card Game Students Can Make for Class
Cause/ Effect Game 07
This Is a Game That Can be Altered Easily for Class.
Cause/ Effect Game 08
Type in the Sentence with the Appropriate Transitional Word!
Cause/ Effect Game 09
Type in the Transitional Words for Cause/ Effect!
Cause/ Effect Game 10
Quia: Determine the Cause or the Effect
Cause/ Effect Game 10
Is It a "Cause" or Is It an Effect?
Cause/ Effect Game 11
Quia: Moving from Effect to Cause
Cause/ Effect Game 12
Quia: Moving from Cause to Effect
Cause/ Effect Game 14
The Garden of Happiness
Cause/ Effect Game 15
Quia: What Caused It to Happen?
Cause/ Effect Game 16
Quia: Cause and Effect
TEACHER: The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Trinka Hakes Noble's Books About Jimmy and His Boa Constrictor
TEACHER: THIS IS A GREAT LESSON
Beacon Learning Center: WALKS THE STUDENT THROUGH CAUSE AND EFFECT!

7.6a: NonFiction Prior Knowledge

7.6b: NonFiction External Text Structures

Quizlet Game
Play the SCATTER

7.6c: Internal Text Structure: Author Organizational Patterns

EReading #01
Chronology, Compare and Contrast, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution
EReading #02
Chronology, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Sequence
EReading #03
Compare and Contrast, Spatial, Chronological, Problem and Solution, Cause and Effect, Sequence
EReading #04
Compare and Contrast, Spatial, Chronological, Problem and Solution, Cause and Effect, Sequence
EReading #05
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect,, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #06
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect,, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #07
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #08
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #09
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #10
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #11
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #12
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast
EReading #13
Chronological, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast

7.6d: Inferences Using Explicit and Implied Information

7.6e: NonFiction: Fact -vs- Opinion

7.6f: NonFiction Source/ Viewpoint/ Purpose of Text

7.6g: Word Choice (Connotations) Convey Author Viewpoint

7.6h: NonFiction: Main Idea

7.6i: Summarize Using Supporting Details

7.6j: NonFiction Cause and Effect

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