Tenth Grade Mini Literacy Pack: From Academic Language to Precise Meaning (Connotation, Denotation, and the Root not)

Your scholar learns the root not (mark or know) and two big ideas built from it: denotation, a word's dictionary meaning, and connotation, the feeling a word gives. Cheap and thrifty mean the same thing, but thrifty feels better. Then they read a story called The Thrift Shop.

What's inside:

13 pages, instant PDF download

Grown-Up Guide, Toolkit, and Answer Key

Hear It, Map It, and Break It

Read It: a decodable story, The Thrift Shop

Understand It: Pick It, Order It, and Draw It

Write It: Sort It, Spell It, Count It, and Say It, Write It

New heart words: suede, khaki

Vocabulary word: nuance

How it works: five short sessions, about 15 to 20 minutes a day. No prep. Just print and begin.

A great fit if your scholar uses argument words and is ready to think about how word choice shapes meaning.

This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.