Identify and sort common words into basic categories, relating vocabulary to background knowledge.
Clarifications
Clarification 1: Instruction for this benchmark should include text read-alouds and think-alouds aimed at building and activating background knowledge. Review of words learned in this way is critical to building background knowledge and related vocabulary. Texts read aloud can be two grade levels higher than student reading level.
Clarification 2: See Context Clues and Word Relationships.
Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade: K
Date Adopted or Revised: 08/20
Status: State Board Approved
Related Courses
Related Access Points
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Access Point Title |
ELA.K.V.1.AP.3 | Identify categories of common words in grade-level text at the student’s ability level, using the student’s mode of communication. |
Related Resources
Interactive Research Pages
Lesson Plan
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Description |
Colors All Around Us: Using Colors to Describe Our World | In this lesson, students will use the beautiful text Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger to explore how an author uses color words and illustrations to describe various real-world objects. They will identify and explain how the descriptive words provide meaning and how the illustrations support the text. Students will brainstorm real-life objects that can be described and classified using color words and write an expository piece to describe those objects. |
Original Student Tutorial
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Description |
The Places You'll Go! | Sort and describe words based on categories and key attributes in this interactive tutorial. Visit a circus, zoo, and fire station as you learn to describe and group people, animals, and objects. |
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorial
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Description |
The Places You'll Go!: | Sort and describe words based on categories and key attributes in this interactive tutorial. Visit a circus, zoo, and fire station as you learn to describe and group people, animals, and objects. |
Interactive Research Pages