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Knowledge
- Writers and speakers use a variety of words to distinguish between specific intended meanings.
- Real life means situations that they have experienced or will experience, and they can make real-life connections about how vocabulary words can be used.
Skills
- Discuss relationships of words and give reasons for choosing to use a particular word in writing or speaking; for example, words related to home include house, residence, and habitat.
- Distinguish shades of meaning in related words, and give reasons for choosing to use a particular word in writing or speaking; for example, words related to bad with different nuances include terrible, awful, horrible.
Understanding
- Writers and speakers carefully select words to convey specific meanings, ideas, and relationships.
- Making real-life connections to new vocabulary words helps them move the new words to their long-term memory, becoming part of their "ready to use" vocabulary.
Vocabulary
- Word relationships
- Nuances in word meanings
- Identify
- Real-life connections
