Understanding and using new vocabulary (L.1.4)

What This Section Is About:
In this section, you will learn how to understand and use new vocabulary in reading and writing. Learning new words helps us express our thoughts better and understand stories and nonfiction texts more easily.

What Is Vocabulary?
Vocabulary is the words we know and use when we speak, read, and write. The more words we learn, the better we can understand what we read and say what we mean.

Ways to Learn New Words
• Context Clues – Use the words around a new word to figure out what it means.
• Pictures – Look at pictures to help understand new words in a book.
• Synonyms & Antonyms – Learn words that mean the same or the opposite.
• Using New Words in Sentences – The more we use new words, the better we remember them!

Example:
• New Word: Gigantic
• Context Clue Sentence: The gigantic elephant was much bigger than the other animals.
• Meaning: Gigantic means very big.

Review of the Section: When you complete this section, you should be able to:
✅ Use context clues and pictures to understand new words.
✅ Learn and use new words in speaking and writing.
✅ Find words with similar or opposite meanings.

Practice Activities

1. Video Activity
• Watch a short animated story with new vocabulary words.
• Discuss what the words mean using pictures and context clues.

2. Worksheet/Graphic Organizer Activity
• Match new words to their meanings or pictures.
• Find synonyms (words that mean the same) and antonyms (opposite words).
• Write a sentence using a new word.

3. Interactive Practice Quiz
• Drag and drop words to match them with their meanings.
• Choose the best word to complete a sentence.
• Click on pictures that match new vocabulary words.

4. Homework Offline Activity
• Find three new words from a book or story.
• Write each word in a sentence.
• Draw a picture to show what one of the words means.

This section will help students grow their vocabulary and become better readers and writers!