BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Academic Language tone, mood, figurative language, figures of speech, connotative, denotative, genre, domain-specific vocabulary, language variation, dialect Strategies to Support Teaching the Standard ●​ Semantic gradients - organizing words on a thermometer or paint chips to highlight the changes in the shades of meaning for related words ●​ Choose a short passage from the text you are currently reading that is a good example of tone or mood. Assign groups different tones or moods and ask them to revise the text in order to convey the tone or mood they are assigned. ●​ 8 Ways to Grow Students’ Vocabulary by Cult of Pedagogy Question Stems and Prompts for Assessment ●​ What does the word/phrase ____ mean in this selection? ●​ This word/phrase is an example of ____. ●​ How does the author’s use of ____ (figurative language) impact the tone of the text? ●​ Identify and analyze which words or phrases specifically impact the meaning or tone? ●​ How does the author’s use of formal or informal diction affect the tone of the text? ●​ How does this word choice impact the meaning of the passage? ●​ How does the author’s word choice aid in character development? How does this affect the meaning and tone of the text? ●​ What impact does figure of speech have on the reader?

●​ How would this text be different if it were written 300 years earlier? ●​ How would this text be different if it were written in ___ culture? Additional Supports / Professional Resources

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