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  • Overview of Wordly Wise i3000 Practice Activities


    Introduction

    Welcome to Wordly Wise i3000! This guide provides an overview of the various practice activities your students will encounter. These activities are designed to help embed vocabulary words in long-term memory and enhance students' understanding and usage of new words.

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    Overview of Practice Activities

    In Wordly Wise i3000, students will engage in various practice activities that vary by lesson and grade level. Here’s a comprehensive list of these activities and what they entail:

    Words and Their Meanings

    • Description: Students either select the word that matches a given definition or the definition that matches a given word.

    • Objective: Helps embed words and meanings in memory.

     

    Completing Sentences

    • Description: Students choose the phrase that correctly completes each sentence using context clues.

    • Objective: Deepens word knowledge through exposure to correct word usage in different contexts.

     

    Seeing Connections

    • Description: Students identify the word that does not relate to the others in a group of four words.

    • Objective: Encourages categorization and classification of words based on meaning similarities and differences.

     

    Making Connections / Understanding Word Relationships

    • Description: Students relate new words to words they already know.

    • Objective: Helps students own and retain new words by linking them with familiar words.

     

    Applying Meanings

    • Description: Students answer questions that use vocabulary words in specific contexts.

    • Objective: Uses students’ full knowledge of each word’s meaning built in previous activities.

     

    Using Context Clues

    • Description: Students complete sentences by selecting the correct word from four choices based on context clues.

    • Objective: Teaches how to use context to determine the best-fitting word.

     

    Using Words in Context

    • Description: Students determine whether vocabulary words are used correctly in given sentences.

    • Objective: Reinforce understanding of word meanings through contextual usage.

     

    Just the Right Word

    • Description: Students fill in the blanks in sentences with vocabulary words or their forms, using context clues and hints.

    • Objective: Provides practice in relating words to their meanings.

     

    Word Study

    • Description: Activities like identifying synonyms and antonyms, exploring prefixes and suffixes, solving analogies, and learning roots.

    • Objective: Deepens word knowledge and understanding of word structures.

     

    Determining Meanings

    • Description: Students complete sentences with words from the word list, using their knowledge of roots, suffixes, and prefixes.

    • Objective: Helps determine if words correctly complete sentences based on their forms.

     

    Finding Meanings

    • Description: Students match two phrases to form a correct and complete sentence.

    • Objective: Uses contextual and syntactical information to find accurate word meanings.

     

    Understanding Meanings

    • Description: Students identify correct and incorrect definitions in sentences and rewrite incorrect sentences.

    • Objective: Enhances understanding of word meanings through correction and rewriting.

     

    Determining Precise Meaning

    • Description: Students read a sentence with a vocabulary word and then choose the paraphrase that accurately conveys the same meaning.

    • Objective: Refines understanding of precise word meanings in context.

     

    Using Words

    • Description: Students decide if a vocabulary word correctly completes each of the three sentences.

    • Objective: Tests knowledge of word meanings and proper usage in sentences.

     

    Images of Words

    • Description: Students select sentences that correctly illustrate the meaning of a given word.

    • Objective: Applies word meanings in sophisticated contexts.

     

    Understanding Contextual Meanings

    • Description: Students identify correct and incorrect uses of vocabulary words and write original sentences using the words correctly.

    • Objective: Ensures comprehension and correct usage through writing practice.


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