F. Determine in a given context the meaning of words with multiple meanings (SAT 10)

Understanding Vocabulary In Their "Own Terms"
Students will work together in small groups to identify at least three to four unknown vocabulary words in a given passage.

Literature Based Reading Activities
A collection of phonics, reading comprehension, and vocabulary activities to be used throughout the year.

Visualizations: Black Poet, Langston Hughes
Students will have an opportunity to read and appreciate selected poetry of Langston Hughes. The students will reflect on chosen selections of poetry in order to delineate the author's use of figurative language such as simile or metaphor.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
In this lesson students will distinguish and interpret multiple meaning words, as well as, reading comprehension.
 

Multisensory Vocabulary Guidelines and Activities:  This site offers guidelines and activities for learning new vocabulary using various modalities. These are great ideas for incorporating Marzano's nonlinguistic instructional strategy.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
E/B: Using English At Your Command pp.80-81 (can check-out from ESL Dept.), read the captions in random order and have students point to the matching pictures. Give a new sentence for just for just one of the meanings. Have students identify which picture shows the same meaning; D, E: In random order, make up a new sentence for each multiple-meaning word. Have students say the word and point to the picture that shows the correct meaning of the word.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.

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