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Dictionary.com
Look up any word by typing the entry at the top. Includes word of the day, links to foreign language dictionaries, and link to a thesaurus. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d Verify meaning, L.11-12.4c References, L.9-10.4d Verify meaning,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Enriching Writing With Adjectives and Synonyms
Contains plans for six lessons that teach third- and fourth-grade students about adjectives and uses webbing to come up with synonyms for a list of them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
Quia
Quia: Super Synonyms Match Up
This game asks students to match pairs synonyms by clicking on the pairs in the grid provided. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Synonyms
In this game, students draw a line between synonyms in each column. Java is required.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Contextual Redefinition [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about contextual redefinitions, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, understand how to measure progress with contextual redefinitions, find research that...
Other
Visual Thesaurus: Shades of Meaning
In this lesson, small groups of students will compete in a "shades of meaning" contest to see which group can use the Visual Thesaurus to help them match words with similar definitions but different connotations in the shortest amount of...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Finding New Ways to Say Something
Use the activities on this site to review an understanding of synonyms and practice alphabetizing.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Word Frog (Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms)
Practice matching antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms, with Word Frog, an animated self-scoring activity, with three different levels of difficulty.
Other
Thesaurus.com: Homepage
To use the thesaurus at Thesaurus.com, simply type a word in the gold search box at the top of the page and click the 'Search' button. A list of synonyms and antonyms will be returned.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on using a combination of reference materials and analyzing context clues and analogies to improve your knowledge of new words.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Synonyms and Antonyms: Word Girl
This WordGirl lesson focuses on the collection of synonyms and antonyms for a richer, stronger vocabulary.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Punctuation Context Clues
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to use punctuation context clues to assist with reading comprehension. The following types of punctuation context clues are included in the lesson: definitions, synonyms, comparisons,...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Opposites Attract
A lesson plan in which students play a card game by matching synonym and antonym cards. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Knowledge: Synonym Dominoes
A lesson plan in which students play a game of dominoes by matching synonyms. Materials are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vocabulary Magic
Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building Word Castles
For this lesson, students will explore unfamiliar words found in various picture books by Patricia Polacco. Students will discover the meanings of unfamiliar words by using a dictionary and find synonyms and antonyms with a thesaurus....
Arcademics
Arcademics: Furious Frogs, Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms
Pick the game to play: antonyms, synonyms, homonyms and then quickly click the correct word that is the same or opposite.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: To Order Words According to Shades of Meaning [Pdf]
This PDF activity has students order lists of words with similar meanings from the weakest to the strongest in meaning, select words with strongest meaning to fill in the blanks, make a list of words that mean happy, and then use them to...
Other
Pb Works: Great Source: Word Choice: The Right Shade of Meaning [Pdf]
This PDF unit is complete with a variety of worksheets providing students practive with choosing the right shade of meaning of synonyms.
Quia
Quia: Synonym Hangman
This hangman game provides synonyms for the hidden word and the correct number of letters in the word. Students guess letters and until they think they know the answer, and then they type in the answer. If you don't guess it before your...
Quia
Quia: Synonym Match Up
This is a matching and memory game in which students match synonyms while remembering their location. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Synonyms
This site offers a matching squares activity in which students match pairs of synonyms. Java is required.
English Club
English Club: Synonym Adverbs Game 1
In this six-question synonym/adverb game, students click and drag the correct synonym into the box beside the appropriate adverb. Click "Check" for the score.
English Club
English Club: Synonym Adverbs Game 2
In this six-question synonym/adverb game, students click and drag the correct synonym into the box beside the appropriate adverb. Click "Check" for the score.