Lessons tagged with "phrases"
Use Idioms to Determine the Meaning of Phrases
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on applying knowledge of idioms to determine the meaning of phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Descriptive Phrases
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to use descriptive phrases, such as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases to be more precise. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are given a basic sentence along with instructions for adding a type of feeling, color, motion, shape, etc. Students select the most precise descriptive phrase and rewrite the sentence with the new phrase.
Determine the Figurative Meaning of Words and Phrases
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading literature lesson covers how to determine the figurative meaning of words and phrases (not types of figurative language). The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to use context clues from literary passages to help explain the figurative meaning of specific words and phrases.
Determine the Meaning of Words Using Roots & Affixes
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This language/vocabulary lesson covers how to determine the meaning of words using roots and affixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze words in a sentence based on given root definitions.
Recognize Descriptive Phrases
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to recognize descriptive details, such as adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the descriptive phrase, then identify which word the phrase describes. Finally, they will determine what the descriptive phrase gives more details about. Also, passages of descriptive text are provided with questions about the descriptive phrases.
Identify Idioms
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying idioms. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the sentence and underline the idiom. Then, they determine the meaning of the idiom using context clues and select the correct answer. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Figurative Meaning of Words and Phrases
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Figurative Meaning in Speeches
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Figurative Meaning of Words and Phrases
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Figurative Meaning in Speeches
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts