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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 The Tempest Act 3 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Tempest 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 comedy The Tempest. 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: baseness, brine, certes, deboshed, desolate, diligent, drollery, incense, invulnerable, jocund, murrain, mutineer, paunch, perdition, prattle, quarrel, reign, sot, totter, valiant, viands, vigilance, wearily, and withal. 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 Tempest Act 1 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Tempest Act 1 Vocabulary Games

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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 The Tempest. 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: abysm, alack, allay, auspicious, barren, besiege, cur, direful, extirpate, fain, furlong, hearken, hither, impertinent, insolent, pox, prescience, rapt, sans, thence, treacherous, vain, verdure, and yarely. 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 Tempest Act 5 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Tempest Act 5 Vocabulary Games

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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 The Tempest. 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, bestow, chastise, coragio, discase, dismay, ebb, entreat, expeditious, gale, knave, liege, mutinous, penitent, pickle, promontory, requite, sirrah, thrice, trice, and tricksy. 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 Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Othello 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 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
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Othello 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 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
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's Othello 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 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
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Othello 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 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
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's Othello 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 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
Shakespeare's As You Like It Act 1 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's As You Like It Act 1 Vocabulary Games

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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 As You Like It. 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: acquit, allottery, bequeath, countenance, descend, dissuade, entreat, fain, gallant, heartily, knavery, lament, malice, penury, prithee, purgation, reign, resolute, servitude, smirch, sunder, treacherous, umber, unkept, and whither. 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 As You Like It Act 4 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's As You Like It Act 4 Vocabulary Games

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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 As You Like It. 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: abominable, boisterous, clamorous, commend, contrive, effect, gilded, hornmaker, jointure, leer, lief, lo, murmur, nimble, osier, prate, purlieus, rascally, rumination, slander, stern, and waspish. 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 As You Like It Act 2 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's As You Like It Act 2 Vocabulary Games

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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 As You Like It. 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: abruptly, anon, base, boast, bough, chanticleer, chide, churlish, comely, discord, erewhile, feign, forbear, husbandry, irk, languish, lusty, melancholy, pains, pard, sans, sinewy, sullen, uncouth, valiant, venerable, wherefore, 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 As You Like It Act 3 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's As You Like It 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 comedy As You Like It. 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: amble, caparison, capricious, carlot, chaste, cicatrice, counsel, desolation, dowry, elegy, exult, mar, moonish, mutton, odious, parlous, peevish, perpend, pilgrimage, relish, sirrah, swoon, synod, tedious, thrice, and vehemence. 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 As You Like It Act 5 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's As You Like It Act 5 Vocabulary Games

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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 As You Like It. 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: array, bastinado, bestow, boorish, compact, conjure, ditty, dulcet, flout, hoarse, idle, mirth, miser, nuptial, obscure, politic, pompous, quarrel, rudiments, salutation, sententious, shrewd, simper, swift, 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 Merchant of Venice Act 5 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Act 5 Vocabulary Games

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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 Merchant of Venice. 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: abate, beset, besmear, bestow, cackle, cherubin, cuckold, feign, hark, hymn, immortal, infinitely, paltry, perchance, posy, prate, quarrel, quire, unthrift, vehement, vesture, whom, and zeal. 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 Merchant of Venice Act 2 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Act 2 Vocabulary Games

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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 Merchant of Venice. 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, allay, amorous, barbarous, base, beshrew, clamber, cozen, cudgel, foppery, gormandise, haste, immure, misconstrue, ostent, prey, proverb, renowned, reproach, sirrah, stern, tedious, valiant, 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 Merchant of Venice Act 4 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Act 4 Vocabulary Games

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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 Merchant of Venice. 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: alter, beseech, commend, confiscate, contrive, deed, entreat, heartily, infidel, jot, keen, malice, mitigate, penance, perjury, precedent, predicament, principal, recant, salvation, tarry, temporal, tender, and thine. 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 Merchant of Venice Act 3 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice 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 The Merchant of Venice. 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: accoutred, aloof, amity, bleared, carrion, counsel, cunning, cur, forbear, fourscore, fray, gaoler, gaudy, gratis, mar, peize, presage, prolixity, repent, shudder, summon, sunder, and wont. 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 Julius Caesar Act 5 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act 5 Vocabulary Games

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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 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: apace, apt, bondman, consort, demeanor, ere, exigent, melancholy, parley, peevish, presage, prey, prithee, proclaim, smatch, and tarry. 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 Julius Caesar Act 4 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act 4 Vocabulary Games

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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 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: barren, chastisement, choler, drachmas, earnest, hark, hasty, hollow, jade, leaden, mart, mettle, mirth, nimbleness, provender, rash, repose, rive, salutation, selfsame, sirrah, undeserver, and waspish. 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 Julius Caesar Act 2 Vocabulary Games
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Act 2 Vocabulary Games

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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 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. 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, and discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: adder ascend augurer contrive council counsel emulation entreat errand fray hither immortal insurrection lament lowliness phantasma quarrel redress spurn throng valiant wary whelp