New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
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...
Other
How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning
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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National Math + Science Initiative: Vocabulary Study: Julius Caesar [Pdf]
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Denotation
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...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1
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....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Multiple Meaning Words
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...
TES Global
Blendspace: Multiple Meaning Words Pt.2
A six-part learning module with links to texts, and image, and videos about multiple meaning words.
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]
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.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students/ Homographs F Same Spelling Different Meaning
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learn a Word: Science Vocabulary Acquisition
In this activity, young scholars use multiple sources to learn the meanings of science words, collaborating to create useful resources for learning and retaining science vocabulary.
University of Victoria (Canada)
School and Office Vocabulary
Nice vocabulary development tool for students. Matching exercise shows pictures of common items from school or office. Student tries to match correct word with picture from drop down menu. After 10 questions a score based on correct...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Kitchen Utensils Vocabulary
This vocabulary development tool for students features a matching exercise that shows pictures of common items of common kitchen utensils. Students match correct word with picture from a drop-down menu. After 10 questions a score can be...
Vocabulary.com
The New Sat: Multiple Meaning Words List #1
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...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings
This lesson introduces common words with multiple meanings.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Putting Two Words Together [Pdf]
This FYI (Volume 3, Issue 2) article discusses multiple meanings for the word ball including sports (baseball), round (eyeball), and no connection to either of the others (ballroom).
Quia
Quia: Homographs (Multiple Meaning Words)
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Homographs/multiple Meaning Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will use dictionary entries to identify the meaning used in sentences.
Quia
Quia: Subject and Verbs: Identifying Verbs 2
This is an interactive, online quiz. Choose all the correct definitions for these words. Immediate feedback and explanations are provided.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Homograph Hitch
A lesson plan in which learners match two definitions to each homograph. Materials are included.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Contextual Clues
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),...