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- Synonym word wall. Word walls with a twist! For older students, use precious classroom wall space to boost vocabulary knowledge and support strong writing skills.
- LEGO block matching game. LEGO bricks can make anything fun! This word-building game reinforces new vocabulary and is a great way to introduce synonyms.
- Read-alouds. ADVERTISEMENT. There are many great books on synonyms for any age. Silly stories filled with wordplay and imagination will captivate your students while teaching them all sorts of new words to add to their growing vocabularies.
- Dominoes. You can find just about any reading activity for your classroom at the Florida Center for Reading Research, and we love this game for synonym practice.
- Watch YouTube Videos About Synonyms
- Explore Synonyms in Books
- Display Synonym Posters in The Classroom
- Individual Synonym Flip Books
- Incorporate Synonym Activities During Literacy Rotations
As always, there are a number of really cute YouTube videos that are great to introduce synonyms to your students. I have always found that using a YouTube video or something interactive to begin the learning journey of particular concepts, to be a great way to engage students from the get-go! This simple video uses gorgeous illustrations and inclu...
Along with YouTube videos, there are also a number of story books that explore synonyms. This is one of my favourites and kids love it because it’s all about animals’ bottoms! This book features a gazillion names for them, from ‘cheeks’ to ‘tush’ to ‘heinie’. Kids will giggle their way through the book, however, this is where you can explain that a...
It’s all well and good for your students to understand what synonyms are, however, applying this knowledge and using synonyms in their independent writing can be a challenge. It’s a great idea to encourage students to develop their own word bank of synonyms they can use for particular words in their writing? This is where our beautifully designed S...
Using our Synonym Flashcards, create a flip book by attaching them to a card ring. Having these flip books easily accessible to students during writing will encourage them to look for ‘better’ words to use during their writing. Our set of 11 Synonym Flashcardsare bright and the images are too cute! Our Feelings Synonym Flashcardsare perfect when st...
Like anything your students are learning, continual repetition and hands-on activities to help consolidate your students’ knowledge of synonyms are vital. Using different hands-on synonym activities during your literacy rotations is another fantastic way to embed this knowledge. Our Synonyms Puzzle Activityis a fantastic example of a synonym activi...
Teaching students to read and write often involves teaching them about how language works in general. This lesson focuses on strategies you can use for teaching synonyms, antonyms, and...
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Story creation. Have students collaborate to write short stories or sentences using synonyms and antonyms. Encourage them to replace words in their stories with synonyms or antonyms to see how it changes the meaning or tone. Charades or Pictionary.
Explore synonyms in your English Language Arts classroom with printable synonyms worksheets, board games, and more to help elementary students build their vocabulary.
Mar 23, 2023 · March 23, 2023. This blog post explains why explicitly teaching semantics is important, and how you can teach semantics to increase vocabulary. We also highlight some handy tools to do just that! What is semantics? Semantics is the study of meaning in language.
Oct 17, 2015 · 11 Comments. Teaching Synonyms. Teaching synonyms is such an important skill for little learners. When students learn how to use them effectively, they’ll be able to understand what they hear and read even better. They’ll also expand their vocabulary with new words so they aren’t using the same ones in their writing over and over.
