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📖 7th Grade · ELAL.7.4bUnit 6: Grammar & vocabulary

Roots and connotation

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🎯 Objective: Students use roots and distinguish connotations.

Lesson outline

  1. Root trees.
  2. Connotation lines.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: three words.

Lesson 4 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.7.4b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 7 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use phrases and clauses correctly
  • Use roots and context to determine 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

✏️ Crossword maker📚 All 7th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & vocabulary”

  1. Phrases and clauses
  2. Sentence variety
  3. Misplaced modifiers
  4. Roots and connotation

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