Do you need to help your students to analyze word meanings, especially those associations between words, like analogies or connotations? This middle school resource, based on the Language Standard 5 Grades 6-8 of the Common Core State Standards does just that!Save time and help your students understand figurative language, analogies and connotations through multiple activities, some of which can be reused with different curriculum texts.Differentiated for grades levels as well as for writing sup