Contributor
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Strategy
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Ms Shelow
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- Begin teaching word choice with a concentration on poetry. Have students notice the words that were chosen and discuss what words might have been used but weren't, and why not.
- Develop a beginner's thesaurus with the class to show how different words can mean the same thing,
but some choices may create clearer pictures in your mind. The easiest example to begin with would be "big" - huge, large, gigantic, humongous, colossal, etc. then expand to other word choices.
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Molly Godley
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- Mini lesson:
- Teacher says sentence, ie, The boy ran.
- Teacher shows how to make sentence more meaningful by choosing and/or adding additional words.
- The class embellishes sentence with more descriptive words.
- Share in class orally or on transparencies.
- Working in pairs, one student writes a sentence and then gives to partner to embellish. {Cooperative Learning Strategy: Think-Pair-Share}
- Do several times and then share favorites with class.
- Have each student find a passage in one of their favorite author's books that exemplifies meaningful word choice and share with class by copying on a transparency or on to computer in Power Point. Use the word choice rubric to evaluate.
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Deb Weissman
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Using a thesaurus::
- Look up the word blue in a thesaurus and find synonyms. Students create a "Blue Color Chart." They copy the synonym, color a sample, and then find an item that is that particular color. {One child brought in a bunch of paint sample strips from her father's paint store with about 30 different blues on it! }
- Make a list of synonyms for movement and then have students physically act out the movements: waddled, swaggered, inched, lumbered, etc.
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