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Grade 4

TEKS ELA Standard: 4.3.B

use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words

Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
Antonym Paths
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Ambiguous Sentences
Ambiguous Sentences
Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!
Sets of Idioms
Sets of Idioms
An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.
Synonym Graphs
Synonym Graphs
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
Jabberwocky and Context Clues
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction
Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.