SMARTcookie Activity Jar™ – Word Games and Connotations

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K-5 SMARTcookie Jar Activity of the Week

Word Games

Write as many words as you can that begin with the letter “s”.

Use the words you collected that began with the letter “s” to write sentences. Try to make all the words in each sentence begin with “s”.

Activity from – “Writing Warm-Ups, Gr. K-6” product number ECS9072

Middle-School & High-School SMARTcookie Jar Activity of the Week

Connotations

A word’s connotation is all the associations we have with it. For example: “snake in the grass,” the biblical serpent, the danger of poisonous snakes, our own fear of snakes or a malevolent person who might be called “a real snake”.

Ask students to free-associate the connotations these words have for them. You might put each word on the board and then have students take turns writing words and phrases around them. (Some sample responses are given.)

1.    apple (apple of my eye; candy-apple red)
2.    brass
3.    bread (money; “our daily bread”)
4.    card
5.    dark
6.    kick (shoes; “kick in the rear”)
7.    dog

Activity from – “Novel Units – Tackling Literary Terms” product number NU5958RH

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