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📖 2nd Grade · ELAL.2.5bUnit 10: Poetry & word choice

Shades of meaning

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🎯 Objective: Students distinguish shades of meaning in related verbs and adjectives (toss, throw, hurl).

Lesson outline

  1. Word ladder: toss, throw, hurl.
  2. Act them out.
  3. Order sets of words.
  4. Exit: order three words.

Lesson 3 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.2.5b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning
  • Read and write poems

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Poetry & word choice”

  1. Rhythm and rhyme
  2. Sensory words
  3. Shades of meaning
  4. Write a poem

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