Vocabulary Continuums (Literacy Builders)

Product Description The general purpose of Vocabulary Continuums is to help students and English Language Learners develop a stronger sense of vocabulary by building knowledge of shades of meaning within similar words.A student might be able to determine that hot and cold are opposites, but where would freezing or boiling fall in that scale of opposites? There are not always exact opposites, and things might fall in several categories of meanings. If you were to arrange all of these temperature words on a continuum, much like a mathematical number line, you might group frigid and freezing close together, but have chilly as a little closer to the middle of the line toward warm, although it is certainly not a word meaning hot.Vocabulary Continuums offers a variety of sorting and organizing tools and graphic organizers great for doing exactly these types of vocabulary exercises. In that way, students learn not only synonyms and antonyms, but also shades of meaning! About the Author Andrew Frinkle is an award-nominated teacher and writer with experience in America and overseas, as well as years developing educational materials for big name educational sites like Have Fun Teaching. He has taught PreK all the way up to adult classes, and has focused on ESOL/EFL techniques, as well as STEM Education. With two young children at home now, he’s been developing more and more teaching strategies and books aimed at helping young learners. Andrew Frinkle is the founder & owner of MediaStream Press LLC (www.MediaStreamPress.com), which maintains the educational websites: www.littlelearninglabs.com www.50STEMLabs.com www.common-core-assessments.com He also writes fantasy and science fiction novels under the pen name Velerion Damarke and writes/illustrates children’s fiction as Andrew Frinkle. Find out more at: www.underspace.org www.AndrewFrinkle.com