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44R1

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Standard 4: Vocabulary Students will expand academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabularies through reading, word study, and class discussion. 
4.4.R.1 Students will identify relationships among words, including synonyms, antonyms, analogies, homophones, and homographs.  
Student Actions
Teacher Actions
  • Students identify the relationship among 

    • synonyms

    • antonyms

    • homophones

    • homographs

  • Students identify the relationship among words and meanings in analogies.

  • Teachers explain and review synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs.

  • Teachers introduce analogies and explain that they are comparisons of the similar aspects of two different things (e.g., kitten is to cat as puppy is to dog). 

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to practice identifying relationships among synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs, and analogies. 

  • Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback when identifying relationships among synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs, and analogies.

Recommendations
Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students struggle to identify synonyms and antonyms the teacher can…

  • display an anchor chart for students to reference.

  • use cards with synonyms to sort into categories. 

  • use picture cards with synonyms and antonyms to sort into categories.

  • have a people sort. Give each child a vocabulary word and have the children find their synonym and antonym match. 


When students struggle with identifying homophones the teacher can…

  • display an anchor chart for students to refer to. 

  • use picture cards to sort homophones.

  • have students draw pictures for a homophone list.

  • use/write homophone pairs in sentences. 

  • using a cloze sentence structure and word bank, have students identify the correct homophone that would fit the sentence. 


When students struggle with identifying homographs the teacher can…

  • display an anchor chart for students to refer to. 

  • use pictures to sort homographs based on their use in sentences.

  • have students draw pictures for a homograph list. 

  • have students write homograph pairs in sentences. 


When students struggle with identifying analogies the teacher can…

  • use lower-level vocabulary to make comparative analogies. 

  • use pictures to make comparative analogies.

  • use anchor charts for students to reference examples and the definition of analogies.

 

 

  • Homographs: words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (e.g., bow used with an arrow and bow of a ship).

  • Homophones: words that are pronounced the same but have different spellings and meanings (e.g., new and knew).

  • Synonyms:  words which have the same meaning. 

  • 4.4.W.1: Use vocabulary to communicate

  • 4.4.W.2: Use purposeful vocabulary in writing

  • 4.2.W.2: Revise drafts.

  •  4.2.W.3: Edit drafts.

 

   

 

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