Vocabulary Task Card Bundle – Semantics Task Cards
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Description
Support vocabulary development and extend students’ reading comprehension and writing skills by explicitly teaching semantics: synonyms, antonyms, context clues, shades of meaning, homophones, homographs and homonyms.
This Semantics Vocabulary Task Card Bundle is a practical addition to your structured literacy programme.
This Semantics Vocabulary Task Card Bundle includes the following six resources:
Why Teach Semantics?
The meanings of words and the relationships of words are referred to as semantics. A reader’s breadth and depth of vocabulary contribute to reading achievement.
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As the primary goals of reading and writing are determining and communicating meaning, it is important for students to understand the meanings of words and how words function in sentences.
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As the majority of words in English have multiple meanings or shades of meaning, it is necessary for the reader to be flexible in determining the author’s intended meaning of a word within a sentence.
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Semantics is one of the six evidence-based components of structured literacy.
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Semantics (language structures) is one of the strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope, which looks at the elements that make a skilled reader.