In this reading lab, we will focus on building a stronger vocabulary, which will ultimately help your student to read more complex and difficult text with ease.
Reading Lab #5: Vocabulary Knowledge
Class Syllabus – Grades 6-8
1/24/23
Objective: Students will be able to unpack the meaning of words by identifying antonyms, synonyms, categories, characteristics, and an example.
Essential Questions:
- What are synonyms and antonyms and why are they important to word meanings?
- How can categories or characteristics allow us to unpack the word meanings?
- Why do examples help us understand new words?
- Why is it important to develop our vocabulary?
Enduring Understandings:
- Synonyms are words that have similar meanings to the target word while antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.
- Categories like parts of speech allow us to figure out the functioning of words.
- Characteristics and examples allow us to use context clues to help us understand challenging words.
- It is important to develop our vocabulary in order to read more complex texts.
Standards:
Grade 6: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 6 topic or subject area.
Grade 7: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 7 topic or subject area.
Grade 8: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 8 topic or subject area.
Materials:
- Please download the article below called “Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells” on your computer. No need to print it though.
