Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 9

This week's theme is: Writing

Word List 9

1. imagery: mental pictures
2. simile: two things being compared using like and as
3. metaphor: a word meaning one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them
4. hyperbole: an exaggeration for effect and not meant to be taken literally
5. theme: a topic or the central idea
6. genre: a specific type of story or music, grouped according to the subject
7. onomatopoeia: to use of words to imitate sounds

Friday Activities

1. Make your vocabulary words stand out! Create creative images of your words to print out and keep in a Ziploc bag for study practice. Click on this link for your creations.
2. Select a text effect and click on it. Type your vocabulary word in the white box that says "type here." To create your image, click on the button that says, "fancify your text" Save the images in a word document and print them out. Cut them into individual cards for study practice.
3. Click on the Read the Words website. Type in sentences or a story using your vocabulary words, and then listen to the avatar read it back to you. We suggest that you create a free user account and save these files to playback at a later time.

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:

A good writer uses imagery to keep up interest in his character.
Some authors use repeated imagery to set the mood.

It is hard to find the right simile sometimes.
Poetry uses vivid similes to tell its story

A curtain of night is a metaphor.
He used the metaphor, a house of cards, to suggest what he thought of his brother's idea.

Bill used this as an example of a hyperbole; "This book weighs a ton!"
The little boy did not know any better and took the hyperbole to be a true statement.

The theme of the story I read was respect others who are not like you.
The question on the test asked to identify the theme of the poem.

Fairy tales and non-fiction are different types of genre.
The library shelves books according to their genre.

Baa Baa Black Sheep is an example of onomatopoeia.
Alka Seltzer had a commercial using onomatopoeia; "Plop, plop, Fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is!"

 
 

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