NY Next Generation ELA 2R4
The Standard
Explain how words and phrases in a text suggest feelings and appeal to the senses.
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how particular words and phrases create feelings or sensory images. They connect word choice to the mood or experience suggested by the text.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student identifies a phrase such as warm golden light and explains the feeling or image it creates. The response refers to the words rather than only the illustration.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a feeling without pointing to language that creates it. They may confuse what happens in the text with how the words make it feel.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph with two vivid phrases. Ask them to underline each phrase and explain the feeling or sense it suggests.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Match vivid phrase cards with pictures showing the feelings or sensory images they create.
Ask students how replacing tiptoed with walked changes the feeling of a sentence.
Play Mood Word Hunt in a short poem or story page.
Revise a plain playground description with words that appeal to sound, sight, and touch.
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Related Standards
- 7W3.d
Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
- KR4
Identify specific words that express feelings and senses.
- 1R4
Identify specific words that express feelings and senses.
- 6W3.d
Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
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