Vocabulary

Homophones

Verbal irony and puns in context

Introduction to connotations and denotations

Shades of meaning: Closely related verbs and adjectives

Sort common objects into categories

Shades of meaning: States of mind & degrees of certainty

Practice with more Greek and Latin affixes and roots

Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues

Greek & Latin affixes/ roots as clues to the meaning of words

Real-life connections between words and their use

Define words by category and key attributes

Multiple meaning words: bark, bat, play, sink

Determining meaning through context

Vocabulary in context

Act out verbs with shades of meaning

Literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context

Add affixes to known words

Using root words as clues to the meaning of unknown words

Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs

Distinguish shades of meaning among adjectives

Real-life connections between words and their use

Using known root words as clues to the meaning of unknown words with the same root

Sentence-level context clues

Suffixes: -ly, -ing, -ful, -ness

Using affixes to determine the meaning of an unknown word

Using context clues

Sorting into categories

Synonyms & antonyms

Shades of meaning among verbs and adjectives

Context clues

Multiple meaning words (orange, fly, duck, park)

Determine the meaning when a prefix is added to a word

Synonyms and antonyms

Use glossaries/dictionaries to check definitions

Frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms

Homographs

Opposites

Opposites of verbs and adjectives

Determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases

Sort words into categories

Interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in context

Idioms, adages, and proverbs

Shades of meaning among related words

Explain the meaning of similes and metaphors in context

Common Greek and Latin affixes and roots

Compound words

Different types of context clues