Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Words with opposite meanings are antonyms, and words with similar meanings are synonyms.
- A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
- A verb expresses an action or state of being.
- An adjective describes a noun or pronoun.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Describe the relationships between words and nuances in word meanings.
- Describe how the meaning of words are alike or different.
- Describe the nuances of words that have different shades of meaning.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Writers and speakers should carefully select words to convey specific meanings, ideas, and relationships.
- Words have relationships with other words and words have subtle differences that can be distinguished within text.
Vocabulary
- Describe
- Word relationships
- Nuances
- Opposites
- Distinguishing
- Shades of meaning
- Similar words
- Related words
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
