Lessons tagged with "shades-of-meaning"

This language lesson requires students to distinguish between words with shades of meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice using content-specific vocabulary and distinguishing between closely related words (e.g. thin, slender, skinny).

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting shades of meaning. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the definitions of closely related words, and the sentences that follow. Then, they use context clues to place the correct word in its proper sentence. Last, students explain their answers. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.