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Procedure Guide: IDENTIFYING DENOTATIVE MEANING
Purpose:
To guide students to recognize relationships among words and categorize them
by meaning.
Preparation
- Select several target words from the text that
is to be read.
- Determine the meaning for each word and decide
upon two additional words that share that meaning.
- For each set of words, list its meaning plus
three additional possible meanings on a transparency, chalkboard, or
chart paper.
Examples:
ingest, consume, shovel in are all
ways of talking
ways of walking
animal names
ways
of eating
Before
- Tell the students the purpose for this
activity.
- Model the strategy for the students, making
sure they understand procedure and expectations.
- Have students complete the activity
independently.
- In pairs, have students discuss their choices.
- With the entire class, discuss students'
choices, allowing them to clarify and revise their thinking; the teacher
should clarify only if and when the students cannot.
During
- Have students evaluate their understanding of
the target terms as they read.
After
- Discuss students' during-reading evaluations
of each word.
- Have students create sentences that make use
of the terms given in the list.
Assessment
Choices of appropriate meaning categories
During-reading self-evaluations
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