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Discovering Meaning
• To increase vocabulary• To understand word meaning prior
to reading
Prefix Review: Draw a Line
multi
pre
de
un
re
remove from/reverse of
opposite of
many
again
before
Vocabulary Baseball for “Casey at the Bat”
Each group A-E will receive a word list.1. Define the words on your list.2. Practice pronouncing the words on your list.
Jigsaw a New Group
In your groups, teach one another the pronunciations and definitions of your words.
How to Play
Divide into 2 teams.Set up bases.Place all words on slips into 2 different containers.All students receive a list of the words. Checkmark the words you miss or don’t know as the game proceeds.
Rules of the Game
• Choose a captain, a pitcher, and a scorekeeper for you team. The teacher is the umpire.
• Name your team.• Team members must define words as they are
“pitched” or called out by the pitcher. Each correct answer will move a player forward one base. Words defined incorrectly are “outs.”
Rules continued
• If bases are loaded, the next player may try for a home run. The player must announce that he or she is trying for a home run before the word is pitched.
• The game is over when all the words have been “pitched.”
Words for Baseball Gamebrilliant despised sphere awed multitudepatrons occurred haughty clenched melancholyStraggling lusty grandeur shattered writhingclung recoiled unheeded favored defiancepreceded bearing muffled wonderment visagelatter doffed stern sneer tumultstricken applauded charity spheroid defiance
Group Words A-EA B Cbrilliant (1) writhing (writhe) (27) multitude (11)bearing (22) preceded (precede) (9) haughty (30)patron (4) defiance (28) melancholy (11)doffed (doff) (23) latter (10) grandeur (3)straggling (straggle) (5) sneer (28, 45) wonderment (13)applauded (26) stricken (11) unheeded (heed) (31)clung (cling) (6) sphere (29) despised (despise) (14)
D Emuffled (muffle) (33) tumult (38)occurred (occur) (15) scornful (42)stern (34, 43) spheroid (39)lusty (17) awed (awe v.) (42)charity (37) clenched (clench) (45)recoiled (recoil) (19) shattered (shatter) (48)visage (37) favored (favor v.) (49)