As the Saying Goes ...

We are discussing paraphrasing in 6th grade, and I gave Room 14 a challenge: the team that could translate the most reworded idiomatic expressions from an 8-sentence list would win STICKERS.

For example, can you figure out what proverb can be paraphrased as "Exercise your visual facilities prior to executing a jump."?

Answer: "Look before you leap."

See the full list here.

This assignment made it clear that we need some more advanced dictionaries in the library to look up words like hemoglobin and viscous (as in "Blood is thicker than water.").

Here the kids are at work:

Tied for first place.

Tied for first place.

Common Core standards addressed: L.6.4 - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies; L.6.4a - Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase; L.6.4c - Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech; L.6.5 - Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.