Transcript Vocabulary Strategies - Victor Elementary School District

Vocabulary Strategies
Grades 3-6
Figurative Language
Similes are like…
A simile will contain the words “as” or “like” and
point out some quality or characteristic (color,
shape, movement, texture, smell, action, emotion,
taste, etc.) that the two different things have in
common.
My room was as cold as ice.
It is a comparison between the coldness of your
room and the coldness of ice.
Metaphors are…
• A metaphor describes a person, place,
thing, feeling, idea, or action by comparing
it to something else. A metaphor says
that one thing is another thing.
My dog’s fur is a shag rug.
His stomach is a bottomless pit.
More Metaphor
You don’t even need to use “is” or “was” to make a
metaphor. The event or description alone should paint
a picture in the reader’s mind. All of these are
metaphors too!
My sister sleeps in a toaster oven and I sleep in an
icebox.
We all have to cross dark mountains.
Your readers will use their mental picture to get the
picture!
Amazingly Awesome
Alliteration
• Putting together 2 or more words that
begin with the same sound is alliteration.
“Help!” hollered Harry as he hung helplessly
from the helicopter in the hurricane.
Now kneel, noble night on your knobby knees!
Hyperbole is the BEST thing
EVER invented in the ENTIRE world!
• “Hyperbole” comes from the Greek and means
“excess” or anything that goes beyond normal,
believable limits. When you use a very big,
extravagant, unbelievable exaggeration to express
yourself, you’re using hyperbole.
I am so tired, I could sleep forever.
I opened the window and ten billion mosquitoes flew
in!
Onomatopoeia
BZZZZZ
• These are the
words that capture
the sound of the
sounds.
SPLOSH
BAM
SNIFF..
PANT PANT
Personification is your friend
• When a writer
gives a thing the
qualities of a
person, that is
personification.
I am the desert. I am free.
Come walk the sweeping face of me.
Through canyon eyes of sandstone red, I see the hawk,
his wings outspread.
It Figures! Fun Figures
Of Speech
By
Marvin Terban
Literary Terms
Scavenger Hunt
• Record the book title and author.
• Identify the literary device or
literary devices used in the selection.
• Record the “evidence” from the story
to demonstrate the literary device or
devices you have identified.
Using Picture
Storybooks to Teach
cavorite-lis
n
-fGET
tg/stores/d
communit
rate-item
cust-rec
just-say-no
m/justsay
Literary Devices: true
Recommended Books
for Children and
Young Adults
Volume Two (Using
Picture Books to
Teach)
by Susan Hall
Today’s Book List
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Pssst! It’s Me the Bogeyman- Barbara
Park
Once There Was a Bull…(Frog)- Rick
Walton
Double Trouble in Walla WallaAndrew Clements
The Giving Tree- Shel Silverstein
Heartland, Sierra, and Mojave- Diane
Siebert
Yo! Yes?- Chris Raschka
Bad Dog- Nina Laden
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,
No Good, Very Bad Day- Judith Viorst
What Charlie Heard- Mordicai
Gerstein
Miss Penny and Mr. Grubbs- Lisa
Campbell Ernst
Animalia- Graeme Base
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Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad
in the Sky- Faith Ringgold
Old Black Fly- Jim Aylesworth
Knots on a Counting Rope- Bill Martin
Jr. and John Archambault
Each Peach Pear Plum- Janet and Allan
Ahlberg
In the Small, Small Pond- Denise
Fleming
White Snow Bright Snow- Alvin
Tresselt
Swimmy- Leo Lionni
The BFG- Roald Dahl
Balloon Farm- Jerdine Nolen and Mark
Buehner
Saving Sweetness & Raising Sweetness
Diane Stanley and G. Brian Karas
Henny Penny- Jane Wattenberg
Multi-Meaning Words
cavorite-lis
n
-fGET
tg/stores/d
communit
rate-item
cust-rec
just-say-no
true
m/justsay
Write a complete sentence
that uses the word as it is
shown.
• You may not change the form of the
word.
• You must write a complete sentence.
• Follow correct conventions.
Draw
Draw
Draw
Dress
Dress
Dress
Extensions
• Identify and define parts of speech.
• Challenge students to use the word
as noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and
preposition.
• Integrate multiple meanings into
daily shared reading selections.
How many ways can you
use down?
• Noun: The goose has down.
The thing in the sentence.
• Verb: The lumber jack will down the
tree.
The action in the sentence.
• Adjective: The down comforter was
warm.
Adjective describing the noun.
• Adverb: He fell down.
An adverb
modifies
the verb.
• Preposition: The man went down the
steps.
Prepositions are
words that we
use to indicate
location, usually
in the physical
world.
Homophone Riddles
Eight Ate
A Feast of Homophone Riddles
By Marvin Terban
What did the fancy flying machine call
the undecorated one?
A plain
plane.
What is an animal with a rough-sounding
voice that cowboys ride?
A hoarse
horse.
What do you say in the evening to a soldier
in shining armor?
Night-night
knight!
How does Moose begin a letter to his
cousin?
Dear Deer…
What is a smelly chicken?
A foul
fowl.
A Daily Dose of
Homophones
• Record homophone pairs on index cards and put
them on a ring.
• Write the homophone, a sentence correctly
capturing the meaning, and an illustration if
needed on each side of the card.
• Prepare overhead riddles as they apply or have
students illustrate their own.
• Prepare weekly or bimonthly quizzes or have
students use the homophones in various projects.
Idioms
Scholastic Dictionary of
Idioms
By
Marvin Terban
In a Pickle or
Mad as a Wet Hen
By
Marvin Terban
Idioms
Idioms are words that really don’t mean what they
say. What they actually say can seem silly, and if
you drew a picture of the actual meaning, it would
be pretty ridiculous.
Idioms are confusing because each one has a special
meaning. If you don’t know the special meaning,
you won’t understand what someone is saying.
The King Who Rained
• Written by Fred
Gwynne
Putting the cart before the horse.
She was really putting on the dog.
He was sitting on top of the world.
Idiom Cards- Front Side
Write the idiom and illustrate the literal meaning.
He put his foot in his mouth.
Back
Origin:
Meaning:
Sightings:
Classroom Application
• Provide direct instruction on idioms.
• Introduce new idioms as they appear
in stories.
• Use the cards and rings to “collect
and record idioms.”
Word Play
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GREEN- Homophone
BLUE- Multi-Meaning
YELLOW- Both
RED- Neither