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Help students understand sentence structure by using sentence scrambles. Have them rearrange words to create meaningful sentences. For example: 'cat the mat on sat' → 'the cat sat on the mat'. This hands-on activity helps visualize how word order affects meaning.

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Introduce sentence diagramming to break down complex sentences into their components. This visual tool helps students see how different parts of speech relate to each other. Start with simple sentences and gradually move to more complex ones.

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Make syntax practice fun with interactive games! Use online tools like Kahoot or Quizlet to create engaging activities focusing on sentence structure. Students can compete while learning about proper sentence formation.

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Play this kahoot titled English grammar test

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Develop vocabulary and meaning through context clues exercises. Present unfamiliar words in rich contexts and guide students to deduce meanings. This strengthens both reading comprehension and semantic understanding.

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Create engaging lessons about words with multiple meanings. Use pictures and sentences to show how words like 'bank,' 'run,' or 'light' can have different meanings in different contexts. This helps students understand semantic flexibility.

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Use semantic mapping or word webs to help students visualize relationships between words and concepts. This strategy helps build vocabulary while showing how meanings are connected.

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#1 Activity/Resource/Strategy

Flocabulary is a video-based resource that creates music videos with unique and original lyrics based on a theme.

-Flocabulary has music videos that aim to explain the devices of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification.

-The videos are catching and engaging to students where they get to hear and see examples of figurative language devices in action.

#2 Activity/Resource/Strategy

Favorite Song Figurative Language Activity

This activity is both fun, engaging, and purposeful!

For this activity, students would create a slideshow presentation. Below I will list the requirements.

1) Create a title slide with your name and song title

2) Next slide will be in reference to the song and where they have located figurative language in the lyrics.

-They must explain the device used and why they think it is used.

-Then give the literal meaning of the lyric(s)

3) They will use this to try to identify each type of figurative language device in the song.

-Metaphor, simile, personification, etc.

4) At the end they will share their quick presentation to create meaning of the music to their peers.

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Sentence Anagrams is a form of wordplay in which letters of a word or phrase are rearranged to create a new word or phrase. A sentence word scramble is a great example of a useful tool to strengthen a learner's understanding of syntax. Example: Primarily in fought WWI Europe was... WWI was primarily fought in Europe.

When using sentence scrambles it is a good idea to use text from relevant and current reading. You would also want to use new vocabulary and recently encountered words in phonics and spelling lessons.

Sedita, J. (2019). Syntactic Awareness: Teaching Sentence Structure . Keys to Beginning Reading. https://www.education.ne.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/syntactic-awareness.pdf

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Text Analysis Activity:

The first activity is to help students distinguish between literary text and expository text is the text analysis activity.

Students will be given 2 different texts to read and distinguish or identify the author's purpose of writing.

-One text will be entertaining and the other will be factual and informative.

When doing their analysis they will side-note the readings to help produce evidence before they draw their conclusions.

-This will be done by annotating the text.

-This activity will be done individually, and then as a class, we will debate their findings.

When all students are done reading and picking which reading is which we will openly discuss/debate the style or type of each reading.

Scaffolding and Graphic Organizers:

The next major strategy to be used would be producing graphic organizers that yield giveaway identifiers to the type of text they are addressing.

-We would create organizers that identify words and phrases that can be sufficient for understanding the style of writing that we are reading.

Example: Expository Text would use language that identify cause and effect, comparison and contrasts, and definitions.

Sejnost, R. L., & Thiese, S. M. (2023). Reading (and Scaffolding) Expository Texts . Reading Rockets . https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/comprehension/articles/reading-and-scaffolding-expository-texts