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Say hello to a platform dedicated to industrious, yet overtasked teachers like you. Say goodbye to countless hours spent developing relevant and engaging ELA lessons. Whether you are teaching the fundamentals of grammar, creative writing skills, classic literature, or contemporary fiction, you will find thousands of activities and assessments to help you achieve a healthier work-life balance without sacrificing academic rigor.
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: afflict, anon, beshrew, brevity, ducat, entreat, fain, gyve, hither, malefactions, melancholy, ominous, paragon, perchance, perpend, pigeon-livered, prithee, quarrel, rebuke, scullion, strumpet, tedious, thrice, and wherefore.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: auspicious, beseech, besmirch, beteem, cautel, condolement, corse, credent, fond, gaudy, gibber, green, grizzled, heartily, jocund, liegemen, mirth, palmy, pernicious, porpentine, portentous, suspiration, truepenny, and wary.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abide, affliction, avaunt, avouch, barren, beldam, bent, bestow, buffet, commend, dispatch, fitful, glare, liege, marrowless, muse, parricide, pious, rebuke, rue, saucy, sirrah, sleight, and treachery.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abjure, appease, avaricious, blaspheme, boast, bodement, concord, deftly, desolate, doff, firstling, foison, fry, homely, impress, mortal, naught, perchance, pernicious, reign, relish, stanchless, toil, and verity.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: benison, brainsickly, consort, entreat, gild, gout, groom, husbandry, incarnadine, infirm, largess, malice, multitudinous, obscure, palpable, posset, repose, stealthy, stern, suborn, summon, thither, thriftless, timely, and woeful.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: anon, broil, chastise, cherubin, clamor, compunctious, dun, ere, fantastical, haste, hie, hurlyburly, implore, metaphysical, mettle, pain, pine, prithee, quarrel, quoth, rapt, scarcely, spongy, and swift.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affront, boisterous, chide, contumely, ere, fair, fetters, hasten, incorporal, insolence, massy, orison, pang, pious, rash, reechy, reign, repose, robustious, rub, scourge, stonish, tristful, and wonted.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: base, bravery, chapless, charge, cudgel, dearth, effect, felicity, forbear, fordo, gambol, gibe, gorge, infallibly, palpable, prate, profane, skyish, springe, sultry, wander, and wittingly.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Help high school students go beyond basic reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this close reading worksheet covering Act 5, scene 2, of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. More specifically, students will do the following:
Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly
Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings
Infer the intended effects of Shakespeare’s word choices and dramatic techniques
Describe tone in context
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Consider themes in context
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss works of Shakespeare
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bough, brainish, cherub, cicatrice, counsel, craven, discord, divulge, dup, glean, greenly, heaves, imminent, importunate, incensed, lard, melodious, needful, ostentation, prologue, remiss, softly, superfluous, and tender.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Othello. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
A total of 121 words are addressed: abode, affliction, alarum, amorous, anon, balmy, base, beckon, begrimed, beguile, beseech, beshrew, bestow, boast, boon, bound, chide, chuck, clamor, conjunctive, construe, counsel, coxcomb, credulous, cudgel, dames, defunct, designment, direful, discern, discord, dispatch, dote, dull, earnestness, ebb, eminent, encave, enchafed, exhibition, exsufflicate, fain, fair, filch, forbear, forfend, forsooth, frailty, fulsome, galls, gastness, gorge, grievously, gull, haste, heartily, heathenish, hie, hither, humors, hungerly, imminent, imperious, importunity, impudent, insolent, languish, light, lip, malice, mar, mischance, murmur, mutiny, mutter, obscure, odious, oft, pains, penitent, perchance, perdition, peril, perjured, pernicious, plead, pox, prate, prologue, quarrel, quench, rash, rebuke, relish, repent, reproach, reverence, ruminate, sans, saucy, sirrah, slander, slubber, smote, solemn, strumpet, subdue, summon, thrice, timorous, treachery, trifle, unbookish, valiant, vehement, voluble, votarist, wary, wherefore, woo, and yerk.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affable, alarum, beguile, beseech, chide, counsel, countenance, din, dole, dowry, fair, fray, gale, hither, irksome, knavery, largess, noddle, pine, plead, quaff, quench, thrall, and woo.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abode, affliction, beckon, construe, credulous, dames, dispatch, encave, exhibition, frailty, fulsome, galls, hie, impudent, light, lip, murmur, reproach, slander, strumpet, summon, treachery, unbookish, and votarist.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: amorous, anon, balmy, coxcomb, direful, dull, earnestness, forfend, gastness, grievously, gull, heathenish, mar, mischance, odious, peril, perjured, pernicious, quench, smote, solemn, trifle, and valiant.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bestow, bondmaid, bonny, coxcomb, coy, disdain, dissemble, ducat, fain, flout, gamesome, graybeard, haste, insolence, lusty, madcap, meddle, pate, perpetually, raiment, sullen, tarry, volubility, and wane.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: beguile, beseech, boast, conjunctive, counsel, defunct, forbear, forsooth, haste, hither, imminent, insolent, pains, pox, prate, rebuke, sans, saucy, slubber, subdue, thrice, timorous, wherefore, woo, and yerk.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Hamlet. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
A total of 116 words are addressed: afflict, affront, anon, auspicious, base, beseech, beshrew, besmirch, beteem, boisterous, bough, brainish, bravery, brevity, cautel, chapless, charge, cherub, chide, cicatrice, condolement, contumely, corse, counsel, craven, credent, cudgel, dearth, discord, divulge, ducat, dup, effect, entreat, ere, fain, fair, felicity, fetters, fond, forbear, fordo, gambol, gaudy, gibber, gibe, glean, gorge, green, grizzled, gyve, hasten, heartily, heaves, hither, imminent, importunate, incensed, incorporal, infallibly, insolence, jocund, lament, lard, liegemen, malefactions, massy, melancholy, melodious, mirth, needful, ominous, orison, ostentation, palmy, palpable, pang, paragon, perchance, pernicious, perpend, pigeon-livered, pious, porpentine, portentous, prate, prithee, profane, prologue, quarrel, rash, rebuke, reechy, reign, remiss, repose, robustious, rub, scourge, scullion, skyish, softly, springe, stonish, strumpet, sultry, superfluous, suspiration, tedious, tender, tristful, truepenny, wander, wary, wittingly, and wonted.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: begrimed, beshrew, bestow, boon, bound, chide, chuck, ebb, exsufflicate, filch, humors, hungerly, importunity, languish, mutter, oft, penitent, perchance, rash, repent, reverence, ruminate, sirrah, vehement, and wary.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: alarum, base, clamor, cudgel, designment, discern, dote, eminent, enchafed, fain, fair, gorge, heartily, imperious, malice, mutiny, obscure, perdition, plead, prologue, quarrel, relish, and voluble.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: accoutrements, amorous, breeching, carouse, chattels, clamorous, construe, court, cozen, digress, doff, entreat, ere, forbear, lackey, pains, pedant, rudesby, solemn, surly, tedious, vex, wander, and wherefore.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences