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Bookmark text: Vocabulary Strategies 1. Reread the sentence or read ahead and use context clues. 2. Use clues from a picture or another text feature. 3. Look for parts you know- root, prefix, suffix. Ex: Celebratory has the root celebrate 4. Make a connection to another word you know. Ex: jest and jester 5. Substitute a synonym. 6. Look the word up in the glossary or a dictionary.

Vocabulary for each grade level. Words are sorted by units. Definitions not provided.

Links to vocab resources from a 5th grade teacher.

Students will learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and be able to distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, and biomorphic and geometric. Then they will build a Calder-style mobile online and/or offline with art supplies. Lastly, they will complete a worksheet to connect the Fibonacci sequence to a mobile by Alexander Calder.

"All the World's a Stage"-use for helping students determine the meaning of unknown words

very detailed word map

FCRR; antonyms/synonyms

List of words that Shakespeare invented. Includes links to the plays in which they first appeared. Idea: Connect to writing instruction about RIP words. Emphasize Shakespeare's inventiveness with language

List of words that Shakespeare invented. Includes links to the plays in which they first appeared. Idea: Connect to writing instruction about RIP words. Emphasize Shakespeare's inventiveness with language