Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.1F Grade 4 CPI 3

 

Standard: 3.1 Reading

 

Strand: F - Vocabulary & Concept Development

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will identify and correctly use antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and homographs.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·    The teacher guides students in developing their vocabulary by selecting words of interest or importance from a read-aloud. Teacher and students discuss together the etymology, or origin, of the words found in a dictionary. This information may be recorded in students’ notebooks or on charts displayed in the classroom.

 

·    Students use removable notes to flag pages on which they find words they cannot pronounce or do not understand. They write one word and its line number on each note for reference in a vocabulary lesson that follows.

 

·    The teacher reads Judith Viorst’s story, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, aloud to the children. After listening to the story and enjoying the pictures, the students share “bad day” experiences they have had. Then the teacher selects some compound words from the story and asks whether any of these would be good descriptors for their personal bad days. Together, they note the compound nature of the words and offer other compound words that might also be used as their descriptors.