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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains common words with multiple meanings: some similar and some very different meanings and the impact of parts of speech on meaning. It discusses six common words with their multiple meanings and different parts of...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Multiple Meaning Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan helps young scholars to USE words for all they're worth! Multiple meaning words may not seem like a kindergarten skill; however, it is imperative that we teach our students about these "tricky" words! Included are...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Multiple Meaning Words Pt.2

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts, and image, and videos about multiple meaning words.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of a Multiple Meaning [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will analyze a word in several different sentences. Students will determine the meaning of the same word in several different contexts. Students will also write their own sentences with the same word in several different contexts.
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Vocabulary.com

The New Sat: Multiple Meaning Words List #1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a list of 25 multiple-meaning words that exist across all academic disciplines. Students will use the type of analysis required on the New SAT. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces common words with multiple meanings.
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University of Nottingham

Mars: Finding Factors and Multiples

For Teachers 6th Standards
This lesson is intended to help you to assess how well students are able to understand the meanings of the terms 'Greatest Common Factor' (GCF) and 'Least Common Multiple' (LCM). PowerPoint slides are provided for this lesson.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Homographs/multiple Meaning Words

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will use dictionary entries to identify the meaning used in sentences.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this practice lesson, which focuses on applying word strategies to understand the text, students will sample a classic story of transformation, a transformation from good to bad and back again. This transformation story has become a...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Mean Proportional in a Right Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Material to supplement classroom instruction on mean proportional in a right triangle: a lesson with a definition of "mean proportional" as well as theorems with examples; an online multiple-choice quiz with answers; and guidelines for...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "(Love Song, With Two Goldfish) by Grace Chua

For Students 5th - 9th
In this poem, Chua explores the love between two goldfish living in a fish bowl. As you read, take note of on the use of puns throughout the poem and their multiple meanings. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students/ Homographs F Same Spelling Different Meaning

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
This online activity gives two definitions and asks what word, that begins with "F," fits both. Clicking the box gives the answer. There are twenty-three questions.
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Quia

Quia: Homographs (Multiple Meaning Words)

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This site is an interactive game for one or two players. Gives two definitions that fit the same word. Players have to guess and spell the target word for points.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lessons on roots and affixes, denotation and connotation, context clues, origins and meanings of foreign words, cognates, and reference materials help determine word meanings. These lessons told you HOW to use these word discovery tools....
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Other

How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Contextual Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Strategies to help students recognize the meaning of words through contextual clues provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as C(2)QU (See Two Cue You), PReP (Prereading Plan),...
eBook
Quia

Quia: Subject and Verbs: Identifying Verbs 2

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is an interactive, online quiz. Choose all the correct definitions for these words. Immediate feedback and explanations are provided.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Illustrating Multiple Positions to Reach Interests

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how many positions might be expressed as a means of meeting a single interest, and that some positions may contain "hidden" interests.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Determining Denotation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to determine the denotation of words; it defines denotation and offers a plan of action: look up the word in the dictionary, read all meanings paying attention to parts of speech, and compare each of these...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Data and Statistical Methods 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this set of exercises, a set of data is provided; students answer questions about mean, median, mode, and quartiles. Questions are multiple choice with solutions provided.
Handout
Other

National Math + Science Initiative: Vocabulary Study: Julius Caesar [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson unit covers vocabulary used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Includes list of fifty SAT words with an accompanying glossary and references to the play, grouped under each act. This is followed by a fill-in-the-blank activity...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.

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