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Reading: Literature Standard 4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
  • Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
    The Flip-a-Chip activity turns ordinary poker chips into a teaching tool, showing students how different affixes and roots can be joined to make words and then placed into a context-rich paragraph.
  • Grade 7 Performance Assessment Sample
    This sample performance assessment for Grade 7 English Language Arts incorporates four passages: 1) Pablo Neruda. EXCERPT FROM The Book of Questions 2) Louisa May Alcott. EXCERPT FROM Little Women 3) Walt Whitman. O Captain! My Captain! and 4) Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. EXCERPT FROM The Diary of Anne Frank.
  • Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
    Many middle school students love friendly competition, and word games can be an ideal context to help them study the meaning, structure, and spelling of words.
  • Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
    This lesson provides a concrete way for students to learn vocabulary.
  • Literature Circles: Getting Started
    This lesson from ReadWriteThink explores Literature Circles, a great way to supplement a reading program in a literature-based classroom. Students create and answer comprehension questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine elements of literature.
  • Poems that Tell a Story
    In this lesson, students read, discuss, and analyze selected poems by Robert Frost. The activities that make up this lesson encourage students to draw inferences about a poem's speaker based on evidence contained within the poem and to gather evidence supporting those inferences. From this page, teachers can access all materials needed to complete the lesson.
  • Reading Comprehension Connection
    Students: Interactive text comprehension includes sentences, reading for understanding and reading strategy. NOTE: This website is specifically focused on ESL students.
  • The Reading Performance
    This lesson from ReadWritethink presents an adaptation of the oral recitation lesson: students talk in explicit terms about prosody and gain a new appreciation for written literature intended for oral performance. Technology activities are integrated to instill the value of technology in shaping students' life-long appreciation of literature.
  • You Can't Spell the Word Prefix Without a Prefix
    Students learn in a cooperative setting to identify, define, and construct words with prefixes.


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