Turn the words around a bit, and you will transform each into a goal for a child to work toward. Sam cooperates consistently with others becomes Sam needs to cooperate more consistently with others, and Sally uses vivid language in writing may instead read With practice, Sally will learn to use vivid language in her writing.
Make Jan seeks new challenges into a request for parental support by changing it to read Please encourage Jan to seek new challenges. Whether you are tweaking statements from this page or creating original ones, check out our Report Card Thesaurus [see bottom of the page] that contains a list of appropriate adjectives and adverbs.
There you will find the right words to keep your comments fresh and accurate. We have organized our report card comments by category. Read the entire list or click one of the category links below to jump to that list. Behavior The student: cooperates consistently with the teacher and other students. Character The student: shows respect for teachers and peers.
Group Work The student: offers constructive suggestions to peers to enhance their work. Interests and Talents The student: has a well-developed sense of humor. Participation The student: listens attentively to the responses of others. Social Skills The student: makes friends quickly in the classroom. Time Management The student: tackles classroom assignments, tasks, and group work in an organized manner.
Work Habits The student: is a conscientious, hard-working student. Student Certificates! Recognize positive attitudes and achievements with personalized student award certificates! Report Card Thesaurus Looking for some great adverbs and adjectives to bring to life the comments that you put on report cards?
Go beyond the stale and repetitive With this list, your notes will always be creative and unique. Adjectives attentive, capable, careful, cheerful, confident, cooperative, courteous, creative, dynamic, eager, energetic, generous, hard-working, helpful, honest, imaginative, independent, industrious, motivated, organized, outgoing, pleasant, polite, resourceful, sincere, unique Adverbs always, commonly, consistently, daily, frequently, monthly, never, occasionally, often, rarely, regularly, typically, usually, weekly.
Objectives Students will learn about changes that occurred in the New World and Old World as a result of early exploration. Older students only. Besides strange people and animals, they were exposed to many foods that were unknown in the Old World. In this lesson, you might post an outline map of the continents on a bulletin board.
An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it. Metaphors are a form of figurative language, which refers to words or expressions that mean something different from their literal definition.
In the case of metaphors , the literal interpretation would often be pretty silly. Metaphors show up in literature, poetry, music, and writing, but also in speech. This bundle contains 15 ready-to-use figurative language worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about and identify the seven common types of figurative language : simile , metaphor , idioms, personification , onomatopoeia, alliteration and hyperbole.
Literal meanings tend to be associated with events or objects in the physical world, while metaphors are more often abstract exploitations of a physical image. Thus, the literal meaning of path is a physical route along the ground, typically made for walking along. With literal imagery , a writer is literally describing things to the reader. Writers often use literal imagery to describe the setting, characters, and situation for a reader.
Literal imagery helps the reader picture where characters are, understand what characters are doing, and even foreshadow what might happen next. Connotation refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings , in addition to their literal meanings or denotations.
Figurative languages are words and expressions used in poems and texts to convey various meanings and interpretations from the literal meaning. Figurative devices play major while writing poems , sonnets, or ballads.
They are the best tool for a writer to appeal to the senses of the reader. A Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. Verbal irony is often a product of words being used literally and figuratively at the same time.
Click to see full answer. Moreover, what is a non literal sentence? This means that you use different words to say what you mean. Literal language means exactly what it says, while figurative language uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different. See the examples below. Sand feels rough. The definition of literal is a translation that strictly follows the exact words.
An example of literal is the belief that the world was created in exactly six days with the seventh day devoted to rest, as per Genesis in the Bible. YourDictionary definition and usage example. Literal meaning refers to the normal, everyday, most basic meaning of the word. Non - literal meaning is when a word means something other than its normal, everyday meaning. Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal, everyday, literal meaning.
What is the literal meaning of something? To describe something as literal is to say that it is exactly what it seems to be. You can choose to hand out sheets of paper to students to draw the following non-literal images and do a picture walk in the classroom, or you can ask a student to come to the front to draw on the interactive whiteboard.
Have students then determine if a given sentence is literal or non-literal and explain their thinking. Students are given a sentence and must decide if the underlined phrase is literal or non-literal.
They must then select the correct definition for a selection of non-literal phrases. Remind students that they have now learned how to distinguish between literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context.
They are able to determine what literal or non-literal language is, and know some examples. Close by having students work in pairs to choose a non-literal phrase and to come up with a sentence to use the phrase in context. Share with the class.
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