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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.

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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.
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act 3 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act 3 Vocabulary Games

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. 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, abridge, amiss, apprehensive, bequeath, brutish, carrion, clamor, cur, decree, dint, extenuate, grievous, inflame, inter, malice, meek, mutiny, reverence, stern, thither, vanquish, and wander. 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
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. 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: barbarous, chantry, consecrated, convey, counsel, dissemble, enwrap, fie, folly, fowl, further, grandam, haply, hyperbolical, knave, lubber, lustrous, malapert, pare, rudesby, tarry, transparent, and ungird. 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
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. 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: altar, anon, apt, beguile, beset, besmear, covetousness, coxcomb, durance, entreat, fulsome, geck, jocund, malice, mettle, notorious, perpend, quarrel, reverence, scathable, solemn, unauspicious, unprizable, and usurp. 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
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. 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, aloof, barren, catechise, contempt, decree, discreet, ducat, eunuch, feign, fervor, gaskins, perchance, prattle, prithee, prudent, quaff, resolute, rubious, shrill, tut, valiant, wherefore, and wooer. 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
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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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
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 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: abode, amort, bauble, bemoil, choleric, cullion, diligent, famish, giddy, goodly, habiliments, heartily, heedless, imprimis, loggerheaded, mar, miry, moralize, mutton, paltry, patrimony, reign, scrivener, and weary. 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
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 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: amiable, bereft, blear, confer, confound, crack-hemp, currish, deign, dotard, forthwith, frivolous, gird, headstrong, heir, immortal, jarring, notorious, scornful, swiftly, swinge, toil, unapt, undone, and worshipful. 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
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 2)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. 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: austere, beshrew, bestow, churlish, consanguineous, dowry, estimable, extort, fadge, gabble, gait, giddy, hardy, haste, hither, malignancy, melancholy, mellifluous, mirth, obscure, pang, quench, skittish, and thriftless. 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
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. 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: abhor, beseech, cheveril, chide, clodpole, dormouse, dram, forbear, idle, impetuosity, laudable, lime, maugre, meddle, paltry, perdition, rave, sage, scurvy, swaggering, tyrannous, vex, waylay, and weary. 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
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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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
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 2)

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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
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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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
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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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
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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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
Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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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
Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 2)

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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
Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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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
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. 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: assail, athwart, beseech, boisterous, counsel, fair, heavy, idle, languish, lusty, moved, obscure, parlous, pernicious, portentous, princox, quarrel, sirrah, soft, sup, tetchy, vain, vexed, 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
Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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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
Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 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: arbitrate, aweary, bait, bane, bough, fain, false, harbinger, hew, holily, industrious, intrenchant, kern, lily-livered, loon, mortified, perilous, prowess, purgative, rabble, raze, shadow, tarry, and unrough. 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