Students will become acquainted with 26 new words through this group of assignments. They write one letter of the alphabet on the blank side of each card. Then give each child a newspaper. It cannot be a person's name or place unless you are sure it can be found in either the dictionary or encyclopedia.
Students continue looking for new words.
Letters j,k,q,u,v,w,x,z are hard to find. They may pick a word from the dictionary to use if they cannot find one in the paper. Once they have all 26 check to make sure they didn't cut out words you know they already know. Once this is completed they are to find the definition of each word and write it on the card. It doesn't matter which definition if there are multiple definitions.