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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.
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier Vocabulary Games and Activities for High School
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"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier Vocabulary Games and Activities for High School

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement the short story “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier. A crossword puzzle, a word search activity, a vocabulary application worksheet, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: ashen, bleak, clamor, furtively, garish, laconic, larder, leaden, murmur, pallor, pilchard, placid, pram, scullery, stealthily, weary, and whimper. 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
"The Interlopers" by Saki Vocabulary Games and Activities
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"The Interlopers" by Saki Vocabulary Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki. A crossword puzzle, a word search activity, a vocabulary application worksheet, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: acquiesce, affray, dispossess, exasperation, fitful, interloper, keen, languor, pious, plight, precipitous, retort, vain, and wrest. 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
"The Beast in the Cave" by H.P. Lovecraft Vocabulary Games and Activities
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"The Beast in the Cave" by H.P. Lovecraft Vocabulary Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement the short story “The Beast in the Cave” by H.P. Lovecraft. A crossword puzzle, a word search activity, a vocabulary application worksheet, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: apprehension, effulgence, fleeting, gibber, interminable, irresolute, itinerant, labyrinth, obscurity, prognathous, reverence, salubrious, sepulchre, and uncanny. 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
The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 1
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The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 1

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 1 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: audacious, blunder, estimable, flummoxed, haughty, immense, ire, morsel, obstinately, prosperous, reverence, scowl, solemn, and withered. 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
The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 2
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The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 2

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 2 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: amble, commotion, defray, detest, dreary, mutter, outlandish, plunder, primly, purloin, repose, scabbard, toothsome, and trifle. 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
The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 8
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The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 8

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 8 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: brute, dart, disquieting, eerie, enmity, gloaming, heartily, inquisitive, lament, loathsome, revive, stealthily, wary, and wearily. 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
The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 7
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The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 7

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 7 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bulbous, crossly, dismay, falter, gale, glower, intently, lichen, plead, plight, plod, refuge, taut, and unimpeachable. 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
The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 3, 4, and 5
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The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 3, 4, and 5

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 3, 4, and 5 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: astray, bleat, cleave, ford, guffaw, hasty, oddment, scurry, seldom, shirk, shrill, smote, uncanny, venerable, and vexed. 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
The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 6
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The Hobbit Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapter 6

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 6 of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: benighted, bough, bracken, clamber, clamor, eyrie, famished, giddy, keen, lofty, precipice, trudge, tumult, and vain. 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
Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 6, 7, and 8
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Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 6, 7, and 8

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: concede, eccentricity, emaciated, gaudily, haggard, implore, indignation, multitudinous, obstinately, persecution, precipitous, reminiscence, scurry, and undulate. 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
Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 3, 4, and 5
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Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 3, 4, and 5

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 3, 4, and 5 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: emphatic, exultant, furtively, genial, incessant, keen, plaintive, proffer, shudder, solidarity, solitude, stealthy, and timid. 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
Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 1 and 2
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Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 1 and 2

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 1 and 2 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: apoplectic, bleakly, continuous, crude, curtly, deferential, indefatigable, pallid, reverently, sibilant, solemn, suffuse, and superfluous. 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
Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 9, 10, and 11
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Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 9, 10, and 11

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: conspicuous, feebly, flare, heretical, irrepressibly, languish, mirth, portentously, quaint, sonorous, venerable, 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
Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 12, 13, and 14
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Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 12, 13, and 14

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 12, 13, and 14 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: anguish, apprehension, clamber, derisive, exasperated, ferocity, impudent, inexorable, ingratiating, innocuous, irresolute, melancholy, shrill, and tremulous. 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
Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 15, 16, 17, and 18
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Brave New World Vocabulary Games and Activities for Chapters 15, 16, 17, and 18

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 15, 16, 17, and 18 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: continual, earnestly, effect, illicit, importunately, infamous, menial, morsel, propagation, propitiatingly, respectively, tangible, and vague. 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
Lord of the Flies Chapter 8 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities
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Lord of the Flies Chapter 8 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: derisive, fervor, glower, illusive, inexpertly, iridescent, rebuke, serenade, sodden, tremulous, vexed, and vivid. 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
Lord of the Flies Chapter 10 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities
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Lord of the Flies Chapter 10 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 10 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abruptly, barmy, befoul, continual, conviction, dart, effect, exult, interrogative, theological, torrid, and woebegone. 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
Lord of the Flies Chapter 11 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities
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Lord of the Flies Chapter 11 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 11 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bough, ferocity, intently, liberation, luminous, multitudinous, propitiatingly, quench, unhandily, wary, waxy, and wield. 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
Lord of the Flies Chapter 12 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities
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Lord of the Flies Chapter 12 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 12 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: continuous, crepitation, cynically, earnestly, elephantine, ensconce, flare, fleeting, goad, inimical, obscurity, and ululation. 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
Lord of the Flies Chapter 7 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities
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Lord of the Flies Chapter 7 Vocabulary Development Games and Activities

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 7 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: antagonism, brandish, bravado, brooding, ceaseless, crestfallen, curtly, daunting, dun, impervious, leaden, and splutter. 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