Standard 4: Vocabulary
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Students will expand their working vocabularies to effectively communicate and understand texts.
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WRITING: Students will apply knowledge of vocabularies to communicate by using descriptive, academic, and domain-appropriate abstract and concrete words in their writing.
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11.4.W.2 Students will select appropriate language to create a specific effect according to purpose in writing.
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Student Actions
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Teacher Actions
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- Students will continue to intentionally choose words to create a specific effect in writing.
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- Teachers explain that word choice is used to create specific effects for a variety of purposes.
- Teachers model how to select vocabulary that will create the desired effect.
- Teachers provide writing tasks that challenge students to create a variety of effects on the readers.
- Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback regarding how their word choice affects the reader.
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Supporting Resources
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Teacher Insights
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ELA OAS Glossary pg 8/14
Word Choice and Purpose (website)
Six+1 Trait Model (website) |
- The intent of this standard is that students make intentional word choices.
- Writers need to be aware of their task, purpose, and audience to communicate effectively.
- Word choice can affect mood and tone.
- Mood is the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work. In choosing appropriate vocabulary, students should consider what mood they, the writers, want to evoke.
- Tone is the writer or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character or audience conveyed through the author’s choice of words and detail.
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Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.
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