Shades of Meaning Sort

1st Grade ELAVocabulary3 pages

About this worksheet

The Word Wizard has dropped 15 word cards, and 1st grade students sort them into three jars: Ways to Move, Ways to Look and Words about Size. The bank includes march, tiptoe and stomp, peek, glance and glare, and tiny, huge and enormous. Two questions follow on the hardest word and three new words of their own. A final sentence asks whether the sneaky mouse stomped or tiptoed past the cat. It matches Common Core L.1.5d and L.1.4a, and the answer key gives the sort and the reason for tiptoed.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.1.5d

โ€œDistinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.โ€

The sort groups verbs of manner (stroll, stomp, peek, glare) and size adjectives from tiny to gigantic.

L.1.4a

โ€œUse sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.โ€

Question 3 uses sneaky and sleeping cat as clues to choose tiptoed.

What's inside this worksheet

The Wizard's Words

A 15-word bank and a three-column table for the sort.

Think About It

Students name the hardest word, add a new word to each jar, and choose stomped or tiptoed for the mouse sentence.

Answer key

Five words per jar, sample new words like squint and teeny, and why tiptoed fits a sneaky mouse.

How teachers use it

Act it out

Call out march, stroll and stomp and let students move each way before anyone sorts. The difference sticks once they feel it.

Line up the sizes

After the sort, have students line up tiny, small, huge and enormous from smallest to biggest, then place gigantic. The sort alone skips that intensity step.

Talk about watch

Watch often lands in the wrong jar. Ask whether watching is a quick look or a long one, and let students decide.

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