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Degrees Of Meaning

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Introduce the idea of a word and its synonyms having different degrees of meaning. Each individual chooses a word that he or she wants to work with and fills out the included worksheet using a thesaurus. Consider having a word bank of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

1st Grade Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st
In this vocabulary words activity, 1st graders answer multiple choice questions about opposites of words, root words, meaning of words, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Curated OER

Speak Write! Understanding the Hidden Meaning of Words

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate connotation and denotation as a basis for greater examining of language. They identify the literal meaning of words and explore the greater implications and impact of word usage.
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Tennessee State Museum

Deciphering the Document: Unlocking the Meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Help your learners truly understand the Emancipation Proclamation by asking them the put it into their own words. After reading the document out loud to the class, and briefly discussing the legal language, split your class into small...
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Curated OER

A Picture's Worth 1000 Words: Decoding Intercultural Symbols

For Teachers K - 8th
Students interpret a set of pictographs, defining what each image means and create their own set of symbols as an alphabet. They then write using their own symbolic alphabet using pictures.
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Curated OER

"Desk Top Teaching" - Word Interrogation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Don't let your class get tripped up on the tricky words in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood! Instead, assign each member of the class one or two words and each can be an expert. Explicit directions are included, as well as a list of...
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Curated OER

What Does Success Mean to Me?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
One can't set goals until he knows what he needs to feel successful. Learners discuss what they believe it means to be successful. They then fill out a graphic organizer showing four different paths to a successful adult life. 
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Origins: A Simple Word Game For Use In Human Relations Trainings

For Teachers 10th
Words can hurt. Words may not break bones but they can break a heart. An activity focused on the meaning of and the history of some often heard words and phrases is designed to raise awareness of the importance of choosing words...
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Vocabulary Development - Word Tiers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This lesson focusing on classifying vocabulary words as concrete, abstract, or content specific could best be used with older high schoolers and adults. A list of words and the classification chart is provided.
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Curated OER

Comprehension: Vocabulary - Wonderful Words

For Teachers 5th - 8th
While reading Chapter 8 of Number the Stars, learners write down any words they encounter in their reading that they find interesting, strange, or confusing. They record why they chose each word, and after completing the reading...
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Queensland Government

Means, Modes And Medians

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Middle schoolers identify the mean, mode, and median of the heights for males and females who are age 13. They describe the difference between the three words and what each signifies. Finally, pupils fill in a table and calculate the...
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Teach-nology

Means the Same

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Reinforce grammar instruction with an 11-question synonym activity. Scholars read a set of four words and circle the two that best make a synonym pair. 
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Illustrative Mathematics

Words to Expressions 1

For Teachers 5th Standards
Designed as a follow-up to the lesson plan titled Watch Out for Parenthesis 1, this activity asks young learners to write an equation for the calculation described with words rather than numbers and symbols. The treasure that 5th graders...
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PPT
East Stroudsburg University

In Your Own Words... Paraphrasing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can you put a passage in your own words without changing the meaning of the original text? That is the question facing many young researchers. The advice modeled in this presentation is that writers read the passage carefully,...
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Kitchen Vocabulary Words

For Teachers 7th
Working in groups of four, class members sort cards, labeled with kitchen equipment vocabulary words, into groups based on function, i.e., mixing tools, measurement tools, serving tools, baking pans, stove top pans, or preparation tools....
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Dictionary

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Discovering different ways to use a dictionary to find the meaning of unknown words is the focus of this language arts lesson plan. Everyone reads a story and practices finding unknown words in the dictionary.
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PPT
Curated OER

Homophones

For Teachers 2nd
Use this presentation to practice homophones in your classroom. Learners identify and discuss the meanings of words such as pair and pear, weak and week, cell and sell. This is a quick and easy way to review this concept.
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Write the Word

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
What a great cross-curricular instructional activity to give to your kindergartners! They get printing practice by tracing the word blue, connecting its meaning by coloring bubbles blue. Finally, they connect the shape of the bubbles by...
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Increasing Vocabulary Skills

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore new words through the reading of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. In this literature lesson, students write down the words that they do not know as they read the book. Students look up the words in the dictionary and write...
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Curated OER

Verbs Vocabulary Exercise

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word meanings instructional activity, students how to use verbs in sentences. Students choose the correct word for each of the ten sentences and conjugate eight verbs.
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Curated OER

Antonyms 2

For Students 11th - 12th
Delve deeper into word meaning by exploring a word's antonyms. For each of the 10 words listed, high schoolers must identify the correct antonym from a list of five options. Example words include boon, rapt, laggard, and imperceptible....
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K12 Reader

Proverbs and Adages: What Do They Mean?

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but feel free to find the silver lining in a worksheet about common proverbs and adages. Learners read six popular adages and write their literal definitions on the lines provided.
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity...
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
The four worksheets here are provided to introduce your learners to new vocabulary on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each list contains seven vocabulary words focused on a specfic vowel pair. First the learner hears the word,...

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