Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 8

This week's theme is: Stories

Word List 8

1. fable: a story that teaches a lesson
2. fiction: a story that is made up, not true
3. nonfiction: a category of writing that is about real people and real events
4. fantasy: a creation of the imagination

Thursday Activities

1. Literacy Dominoes - Create a game using your vocabulary words. Click on this link to begin.
2. Type your words in the box entering each word on a new line.
3. When you have finished, click on "print sheet" at the lower right side. Cut out your dominoes and play with a friend. When you place the words, tell the other player a sentence using that word.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

I like the fable about the grapes and the fox.
My teacher told us to make up our own fable.

This book is fiction.
Our assignment was to write a fictional story.

I read a nonfiction book about Abraham Lincoln.
The nonfiction book on President Carter was very good.

Some fantasy stories are hard to understand.
The science fiction book was a fantasy.

 
 

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