1. Shades Of Meaning

2. Ask the students to give some examples of synonyms they can think of.

3. We call words that have similar meanings
SYNONYMS
These are words that have similar meanings.
hurl >>>>>>>>> toss
terrify >>>>>> frighten
destroy >>>>>> harm
hard >>>>>> difficult
sleepy >>>>>>> drowsy
rich >>>>>>>> wealthy
Review quickly. Talk about that we have learned about using the stronger word to show more emotion/action. You can also talk about how using the stronger words improves our writing.

4. Shades of Meaning
Words can mean many things. Even words that are alike can mean something a little different. It is important to know the difference between words.

5. You can complete this as a whole group or let students complete on their own. Have them think of another word to go in the place of the underlined word in the sentence.

9. Breakout Room Activity
Choose the strongest word from each group of words below. Create your own sentence using the strongest word.
Write your sentences on the next slide. 
Eat
Gobble
Nibble
Scorching
Hot
Toasty
Happy
Thrilled
Delighted
Slammed
Banged
Closed

10. Name _______________________________1. 2. 3. 4.

11. Let’s Play BINGO!
There are 8 different BINGO cards. You may want to go through before class and put everyone’s name on one. Then they can go and find their card and stay there and you call out the words. 

25. GAME TIME http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/squanky2/squanky2.html

26. Find the synonyms with this game.
After the game discuss some of the pairs and which word would be a stronger word to use.

27. OLS and Study Island Connection
OLS- Vocabulary Unit 14
Study Island
ELA Common Core- Shades of Meaning