Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- From a given list of words with similar denotations, choose an appropriate word to be used in a given context (e.g., short, stubby, petite – which word would you use to describe a friend’s mother?).
- Describe denotation (precise, literal definition).
- Use a dictionary to define words with similar denotations.
- Explain the difference between denotative meanings versus connotative meanings.
| Number: LAFS.1112.L.3.AP.5b | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 | Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use |