Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, 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

Thursday Activities

1. Flashcardstash- Flashcard Stash allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can create flashcards with anything. Such as dates for History class, vocabulary for French class, or words for the SAT.
2. Use this site, Bubbl.us,to create mind maps online. The directions for using this tool are on the right side of the page. Print out your creation and insert it in your vocabulary notebook.
3. Connectives - Click on the link and type in your vocabulary words and their definitions in the three columns. Your definitions will be typed in column 2 and continue in column 3. Print out the sheet and cut it into the individual blocks. Keep the pieces in a Ziploc bag and try to put the connectors together during your travel time or free time at home.

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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