Lesson Plan
Associating Adjectives
Can your students associate similar adjectives and nouns using the roots and suffixes? In this lesson, students will learn how to associate nouns with adjectives. Along the way, they will use the roots and affixes to determine the meaning.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to use knowledge of word roots to associate adjectives with corresponding nouns.
- Students will be able to write the noun that is associated with each adjective and use the noun to determine the meaning.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Remind students that sometimes we can look inside words to help determine the meaning, like how we can look inside compound words and find the individual parts.
- Tell the students that there are times we can look inside a word and make a new word from the existing word. Tell the students that they will be learning how to look inside certain adjectives and find the corresponding nouns. Those words can be used to help determine the meaning.