Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this miniinstructional activity, middle schoolers explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."

This interactive series of questions assesses students' understanding of the impact of word choice on the tone of a passage. Students will identify the correct tone used in sentences, paragraphs, and poems.

In this lesson, small groups of students will compete in a "shades of meaning" contest to see which group can use the Visual Thesaurus to help them match words with similar definitions but different connotations in the shortest amount of...