No Glamour Vocabulary Cards

Ages: 5-11   Grades: K-6

The cards are organized into ten major vocabulary skills and sequenced in order of complexity.  You get twenty cards for each skill area.  Each card has six questions.  Present a picture and talk about it with the student.  Relate the picture to the student's personal experience and information.  Then read a question on the card and let the student answer it.  The ten vocabulary skill areas are:

Functions
What do you do with a garden?

Categories
What group do these things belong to?

Attributes
What shape is a caterpillar?

Associations
Which of these don't go with an elevator?

Comparisons
How is tape like plastic?

Compound Words
What is a motorcycle?

Synonyms
What is another word that means the same as scared?

Antonyms
What means the opposite of a piece of something?

Multiple-Meaning Words
What does each picture show?

Absurdities
Does this make sense? Park the car in the chimney.

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