Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Start with familiar pairs (home/house, chuckle/cackle) and physically place cards on a spectrum.

Use a frame: "The word ___ connotes ___, which creates a ___ tone."

Denotation = ___ meaning.
Answer: Literal.
Connotation = ___.
Answer: Feeling.
Tone = author's ___.
Answer: Attitude.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Find two news headlines about the same event and compare their connotations.
Answer: Any.
Describe a family member with positive connotations; then neutrally.
Answer: Any.