What Vocabulary Program would be complete without teaching students how to use context clues to find a words meaning?  I've created a cute poster that you can use to help your students remember to use context clues. 

The poster encourages students to look for words that have the same or opposite meaning of the unfamiliar word and things or ideas related to the word.   They can also ask themselves "Is the word a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb?"  Then after they have thought of all of the clues surrounding the word they then need to prediction the meaning of the word and ask themselves does the sentence now make sense. 

I've got a new page on my website called Dictionary Games and Activities and to celebrate this new page I'm giving a brand new game away free until Monday. 

Dictionary Detective
To play this game you give students a series of clues and have them search the dictionary to find words that that match all of those clues.  They will enjoy trying to find more than one word that matches all of the clues. The file below has 64 different game cards.   

You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop. 

Differentiation Station has a great center activity to let students practice their affixes.  Students just need to match words with their affix.  Check out this blog for this cute free printable. 

This is a great idea that I found on the Dandelions and Dragonflies blog.  She has a template for the trunk that you can download and use.  The idea is pretty simple,  each trunk has either a root, suffix, or prefix on it and the leaves are all the words that you can make with those roots/affixes. 

Brown, J. E., Phillips, L., & Stephens, L. (1993).  Toward Literacy; Theory and applications for teaching writing in the content areas.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishers, ITP.