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📖 6th Grade · ELAL.6.5Unit 6: Grammar & vocabulary

Figurative language and connotation

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🎯 Objective: Students interpret figures of speech and connotations.

Lesson outline

  1. Sort words by connotation.
  2. Practice.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one example.

Lesson 3 of 3 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.6.5

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use pronouns correctly
  • Use context, roots and reference materials to find meaning

✅ 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 6th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & vocabulary”

  1. Pronoun case and vague pronouns
  2. Greek and Latin roots
  3. Figurative language and connotation

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