Grade 6
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Language
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Reading: Informational
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Reading: Literature
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Speaking & Listening
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Writing
CCSS ELA Standard: 6.L.5.b
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Building Creative Analogies
We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.