Antonyms are words or phrases with the opposite meanings. This activity will practice identifying and locating antonyms for vocabulary words used in Charlotte’s Web. Antonyms are a vocabulary skill that is important due to changing sentence meaning.
This activity will allow students to develop an understanding of characters in a more comprehensive manner. When students know which characters are important to the plot and climax in a story it helps to build the readers understanding of the text. This also allows students to make real world connections and relate to the characters in a book much like they would in a movie. Mental images can be used by the reader to comprehend character(S) thoughts, moods, intentions, and feelings.
Acrostic Poems are typically easy to write and can be used in any subject with any topics. Acrostic Poems allow creativity and spell out messages for readers to visually and mentally understand. This activity will promote student creative writing as well as character descriptions from the classic children’s novel Charlotte's Web.
This activity will allow students to explore vocabulary from Charlotte’s Web and practice using a dictionary to gain better understanding of words. Once students comprehend vocabulary they are better able to make connections in text and in conclusion better understand the story.
In a follow up to our last lesson about summarizing key elements form Charlotte's web today we will be focussing on Character traits from Charlotte's Web.
This activity will allow students to develop an understanding of character traits that include personality traits as well as physical traits. Students will use characters’ actions and/or dialogue from the text to determine character traits.
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This month Edgalaxy is focussing on the Children's best selling novel Charlotte's Web.
This activity will allow students to develop a better understanding of summarizing using key details. A summary is a brief description of the events in a text or chapter. Key details pertain to the information that is most important in understanding a text. These two skills combined help students in gaining insight about a story or informational piece.
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Decades ago, people were always sending letter to express their appreciations, affections, and concerns. Today, that art has been reduced a bit, but students should still be aware of the difference between friendly letters and business letters. These communication forms have different purposes and intended audiences. Clearly, today’s writers might choose to send these communication types via email, but they should still reflect communication that matches the desired recipient and purpose. This on-demand practice prompts allow students to reflect on the varying parts of a friendly letter, while practicing effective writing skills.
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Effective written communication requires sentence diversity. If you read a paragraph that contains thorough idea development, precise word choice, and conventional correctness, but starts nearly every sentence in the same way, what’s the result? Clearly, the author’s message and authority is reduced by their redundancy.
Even the most distinguished writers are reduced in quality when they opt to take the easy way out in beginning their sentences in the same way. This mini lesson provides a fun way for students to practice varying the beginning words in sentences. Varying these opening words has the potential to change the dynamics of written compositions.
This lesson is targeted at students aged 9 - 18 and will take around 60 minutes to complete.
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