Imagery is the creation of a representation of an idea or concept in the mind. These instructional strategies include ways to improve reading comprehension by using vocabulary knowledge and learning
...to create mental images.
These activities and worksheets discuss the simple and complex attribute of color. Students will develop awareness of the concept, match colored items, develop receptive language before expressive -
..."Show me the red one." and associate color word with objects. Also included is a template for a Five Senses Poem.
Describes how adjectives help us more clearly visualize the action in a sentence. Includes adverb book lists, activities, adverb word bank, Tom Swifty jokes with adverb punchlines, and 8 worksheets to
... develop use of adverbs in speech and writing. Gives an adverb rubric and sample IEP goals.
Pretty good, good, and really good are common ways to describe the intensity of appreciation for something. We use these words to quantify and qualify things in our environment. Use this page as a vo
...cabulary or language reinforcement.
Definition of pronouns for parents and teachers; worksheets include: Pronouns reference charts for classroom; common pronouns, categories and sample sentences chart for classroom; practice with perso
...nal pronouns used as subjects, objects, possessive adjectives; possessives practice with indefinite pronouns; finding pronouns in a reading passage; practice with demonstrative pronouns; practice with common pronoun errors (e.g. their, there); and practice matching pronouns to their antecedents.
Awareness of how a speaker or author uses weather and temperature to express and symbolize emotion and mood supports comprehension and visualization. It helps connect the listener/reader to the conten
...t. Use these activities to help students understand how to use temperature words to convey mood and meaning. Activities include recognizing symbolism, temperature similes, expressing feelings using temperature words, matching, creating similes, text evidence, and critical thinking.
Measuring the passage of time is a subjective perception. Although the length of a day is measured at 24 hours, sometimes it seems to fly by while at other times it creeps. Use these activities to he
...lp students understand time. Activities include estimating how much time to do a specific task, measuring having enough time to do a task, finding words that indicate time in reading passages, and word scramble using time associated words.
Definition of prepositions and prepositional phrases for parents and teachers; worksheets include: Locating objects (in. on, under, besides, etc.) on a playground scene; practice finding prepositions
... and object of prepositional phrases in sentences; comprehensive list of prepositions and prepositional phrases; prepositional phrases task cards; practice using prepositional phrases as adverb and adjective phrases in a sentence.
These activities and worksheets discuss the simple and complex attribute of composition and classification. Students will develop awareness of the concept, classify objects based on group, function,
...parts, shape, size, association, and location. Includes cut and paste classifying activity, learning parts of a car, choosing the best words to describe, and fill in the blank.
These activities and worksheets reinforce using adjectives in descriptive writing to convey meaning, mood, and helping the reader create a mental image. Instructional activities includes templates f
...or describing words, building descriptive language through writing, and revising a simple sentence to include descriptive words.
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