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Four poems from www.gigglepoetry.com are used to ask students to make inferences by adding clues from the text with prior knowledge.

Two poems from www.gigglepoetry.com are used to ask questions about elements of poetry and making inferences.

Multiple meaning words are a source of confusion for many students, especially English Language Learners. This direction sheet explains how students can make a flap book focusing on polysemous words. Students can be challenged to write multiple definitions and/or draw pictures. They then can try to use two different contexts of a word in a single sentence.

There are lots of words related to music that have more than one meaning. This purchase will get you four different worksheets (with answers) that challenge students to consider words such as pitch, staff, note, and measure that have multiple meanings. Differentiation is considered with word banks provided on some versions of the worksheets.

The concept circle is a vocabulary activity from Janet Allen's book, Inside Words. This organizer asks students to think about and record the connections between four words or concepts. This particular sheet includes four tier two vocabulary words that represent a diverse or numerous group (i.e. plethora). Definitions are included for the four words for teacher reference or student self-checking.