LinguiSystems, 2005. – 40 p.
ISBN 0-7606-0600-5
ISBN 978-0-7606-0600-1
The main goal of Spotlight on Vocabulary books is to help students recognize and use specific strategies to enrich their skills for understanding and using an increasingly rich vocabulary. Multiple-Meaning Words teaches students that many words have more than one meaning that is not always the same part of speech.
Outcomes:
Increase flexibility in vocabulary and thinking
Understand and use multiple meanings for words
Understand puns and their use in humor
The book has:
age-appropriate, curricular vocabulary
gradual progression in difficulty to build student success
light demands for spelling and writing
a pretest/posttest
One-page lessons in a variety of interesting formats teach students:
multiple-meaning words can be the same or different parts of speech
to match different meanings with the same word
to identify and use multiple-meaning words
to identify possible meanings of a message
An answer key is included.
