Week 24

A full week is looming ahead of us as we approach state reading testing next week. We are touching base with some material that seems a little foreign and vaguely familiar. We'll also finish up with our Greek and Latin Roots...

Monday
new roots
Super-:above or beyond
-ant/-ent: doing or being
-ess: Female
-ism: characteristic or quality of
-ist: one who does

Reference Materials

Tuesday
Reference Review
Reading Technical Text

Wednesday
Roots Review
Connotation vs Denotation

Thursday
Figurative Language

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COPY AND PASTE THE WORDS BELOW INTO THE GAME ABOVE AND THEN CLICK PLAY!!!
The feeling of a word*connotation
The dictionary meaning of a word*denotation
A good term substituted for a bad one*euphemism
Something that is true and can be proven*fact
Someone’s feeling or preference*opinion
Extreme exaggeration*hyperbole
Comparison using like or as*simile
an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its words, such as kick the bucket*idiom
slanted words used for headings, subheadings, and character thoughts*italics
darker words used for headings, subheadings, and vocab words*bold
above or beyond*super
doing or being*-ant/-ent
female*-ess
characteristic or quality of*-ism
one who does*-ist
a picture that explains how something works*diagram
a picture used for geography*map
a picture used to organize data and information*graph or chart
section in the back of a book that tells what page information can be found*index
a section in the back of a book that gives definition of vocabulary words*glossary
a section in the front of a book that tells the order of chapters*table of contents





Friday
Roots Quiz
Weekly Quiz