Shades of Meaning Activities for 2nd Grade

Teaching vocabulary is more fun with these shades of meaning activities! Get a full week of engaging, no-prep shades of meaning activities, practice worksheets, PowerPoint minilessons, task cards, reading passage, and an assessment all in one resource! Students learn to distinguish intensity of meaning among closely related verbs and adjectives. Students discuss the small but important differences between the strength of a word’s meaning and then apply the skill in their writing. This unit includes short, daily practice to teach shades of meaning in a variety of formats.

Short on time to teach grammar? This simple 5-day routine allows you to teach, practice or assess your students in 15 minutes or less each day. The daily routine includes whole group practice as well as fun partner activities.

The easy to grade worksheet is ideal for additional practice, morning work, or homework. An engaging reading passage in the form of a newspaper story written by kid reporters, gives students the opportunity to replace and order vocabulary words by the strength of their meanings. Students apply their learning in a writing activity with three different formats for easy differentiation. On Friday students are assessed with a short, easy to grade assessment.

Daily grammar practice routine

• Monday: A mini lesson on PowerPoint with interactive practice slides
• Tuesday: Practice worksheet
• Wednesday: Task cards center activity
• Thursday: Reading passage and writing activity
• Friday: Assessment

Included in the download

• A teaching PowerPoint with daily slides for the mini-lesson and moveable practice activities
• Detailed instructions, teacher’s notes, lesson plan & answer keys
• Shades of meaning practice worksheet
• Reading passage
• Writing activity
• Task cards and recording sheet
• Shades of meaning assessment
• Shades of meaning poster

All the activities in this unit are intentionally designed to be very simple, with easy to understand activities for students, and easy to grade papers for the teacher. All the materials require very little prep or no prep at all. In fact, the only thing you’ll need to do is make copies and cut out a few straight lines on the task cards. Teaching grammar has never been easier!

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