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1. Thinking Thesaurus
Thinking Thesaurus Home Thinking Thesaurus Up Technology Scholarly Papers Author(s) Lesson Plans Photographs Grade Level: Integrated disciplines: NE Standards: 4.1.2 By the end of the fourth grade, students will demonstrate the use of multiple strategies to increase their vocabulary. 4.2.1 By the end of the fourth gra...

2. Rewriting Tall Tales
...l identify and apply knowledge of the structure, elements, and literary techniques to analyze fiction. Objectives: Students will be able to: -Replace dull text with creative, new vocabulary. -Revise the teacher 's tall tale. -Choose words that create a flow to the story. -Use resources, such as the thesaurus, to find new words. Assessment: The students will rewrite the tall tale written by the teacher with new, stronger vocabulary they find in the thesaurus. They will choose words that create a flow and stronger meaning to the story. Materials: -Thesaurus -Teacher 's Tall Tale Procedures Anticipatory Se...

3. Build Skills - Thesaurus
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Return to Unit List Grade 3 3 Unit 6: Making Decisions Teacher's Edition p. 433 Build Skills Build Skills Thesaurus From the Student Web Page BBC: Wonderwords Meet The Saurus and learn about wonderwords. Then write a poem! Click What is a Wonderword? Read and take the quiz. Click Submit to check your answers. Click the Back arrow twice. Scroll down and click Help Me Write a Poem Full of Wonderwords. Follow the in...

4. Vocabulary Development
...l demonstrate the use of multiple strategies to increase their vocabulary. 8.1.1 By the end of the eighth grade, students will identify the main idea and supporting details in what they have read. Objectives: Students will be able to: -Identify and define new vocabulary words. -Use a dictionary and thesaurus. Assessment: The students will be assessed on their ability to use a dictionary and thesaurus. They will also be assessed through an activity at the end of the lesson; either Vocab. Bingo or Vocab. Sponge Ball. Materials: -Book A Ride on the Red Mare's Back by Ursula K. Le Guin -Dictionaries -Thesau...

5. Teachers Network: Adaptor Grants: Help Save Wilbur
...in Just Three Days lesson plan, I decided to modify his vocabulary lesson ( 5). In Manes? Modifications lesson, he asks students to look up synonyms and antonyms to assigned words about a character on dictionary.com. I modified this lesson by having my students find a new word to describe Wilbur on thesaurus.com (part of dictionary.com) based on a word that they created first. This new word would be on Charlotte?s web that she would weave into her web to help save Wilbur. _ Students will: _ identify traits of a character in literature Instructional Objectives identify and use the thesaurus as a writing...

6. Vivid Verbs
...e! Vivid Verbs Click Here! Grade Level(s): 3-5 By: Dorie Thurston + + Grade Levels This lesson will encourage students to use more vivid verbs, verbs that give a very clear picture of the action Preschool taken place, and discourage the usage of is and was. Grades K-2 They will be making a personal thesaurus to use in creative Grades 3-5 writing. Middle School High School Objectives: The student will: + + --know the definition of a vivid verb. + + --be able to find vivid verbs in literature. Subject Areas use vivid verbs in their creative writing assignments. --use the thesaurus that they have created a...

7. Adjective Doll
Lesson Plan Teacher: Mentor: Courtney Jessica Bodine Kaylor Subject: 8th grade writing Lesson Title: Adjective Doll Objectives: Journal Adjective Doll TEKS 9C, 15A, C, F, 16E, 17A, D No standards added. Motivation: Students Materials: will journal, understand pen or the purpose pencil, of thesaurus, adjectives construction through a paper, fun, scissors, hands-on glue stick, activity. markers or The map pencils adjective dolls will also be taken for a grade. Teaching Procedure Bellwork: Journal: "Love is blind." -Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340-1400 How does love make a person blind? Is this a good or...

8. Using a Thesaurus
...ines Join Newsletter Lesson Planning Resources Featured Programs E-Learning Home > Teacher Lesson Plans > Archives > Lesson Plan L E S S O N P L A N As our highlighted lesson, the submitter was awarded a $50 honorarium. See our guidelines to submit yours! Winning Lesson Plan In Other Words: Using a Thesaurus Subject: Language Arts Grade: 3-5, 6-8 (adaptable for all grade levels) Cynthia H. Lynch, who teaches at C. E. Hanna Elementary School, in Hobson City, Alabama, submitted this week's lesson finding synonyms in a thesaurus Brief Description This lesson is a learning center activity to reinforce lesso...

9. Workshops
.... Computer program - word munchers (10) 7. Take scolastic and underline all common nouns, circle all proper nouns in an article. (10) 8. Noun dittos 9. Make a noun Mobile 10. Identify all the diffferent nouns in a picture 5 pts 11. Play noun bingo 5 pts B level 1. Write a noun poem 15pts 2. Using a thesaurus look up 3 words for 10 nouns (15) 3. Diagram simple and compound noun sentences A level 1. Using the power point computer system, you teach a lesson to class on nouns. 2. Write and illustrate a book to teach nouns 3. Using a thesaurus, student will use common and proper nouns in paragraph form using...

10. The Poetry of Power The Poetry of Power
The Poetry of Power Language Arts/Social Studies Students will use a thesaurus to develop a vocabulary that they can use in poems describing developments in their state. What You Need reference materials on the development of your state thesaurus poetry collections and anthologies butcher paper felt-tip pens What to Do 1. Find, or have students find, examples of poems that use...