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Bloom
Words
Designed
by:
Betty Melvin, Denny Terrace Elementary
1)
Core
Curriculum: Identify, generate, and use a synonym and
antonym for a given word in or out of context. (3-VW14)
Grade Level: Three
Subject: Language Arts
2) Overview:
The students will identify synonyms in a story. They
will make synonym flowers using a thesaurus. The students
will find synonyms for vocabulary words from the story, The
Great Kapok Tree, using the website http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus/.
The teacher will evaluate using a rubric.
Focus
Question:
What are synonyms? How can we use synonyms?
3)
Time Frame:
Three 1-hour class periods
4)
Resources/ Materials
Thesaurus
Circles
made from construction paper
Petal
made from construction paper
Alexander,
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
By
Judith Viorst
More
Synonyms by Joan Hanson
Chart
Paper
Marker
Tag
Board
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
5)
Culminating
Assessment: The students will use the website http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus/
to find synonyms from the story, The Great Kapok Tree
by Lynne Cherry. They will use this activity to create a
personal thesaurus. The teacher will use the following
rubric to evaluate the activity sheet.
Thesaurus
Activity Rubric
0
No Activity Sheet Completed
1
Activity Sheet partially completed, synonyms listed
correctly for only two vocabulary words
2
Activity Sheet partially completed, synonyms listed
correctly for three vocabulary words
3
Activity Sheet partially completed, synonyms listed
correctly for four vocabulary words
4
Activity Sheet completed, synonyms listed correctly
for five vocabulary words
Activity
One: The teacher will introduce synonyms to the
students. The teacher will use the suggested literature Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by
Judith Viorst, More Synonyms by Joan Hanson and Teeny
Tiny by Jill Bennett to introduce the skill. The
teacher will read the book. Next, she will explain that
synonyms are words that mean the same or almost the same.
The teacher will read the book again with the students,
listing synonyms on chart paper (e.g. Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,
“terrible, horrible, no good, very bad,” are
synonyms used in the book. The teacher will discuss how
the words mean the same or almost the same.
Activity
Two: The
students will create synonyms “flowers”. The teacher
will give each student a circle with enough petals to go
around the circle.
The
teacher will model making a flower using a thesaurus. She
will discuss how you find synonyms in a thesaurus. The
teacher will give each student a thesaurus. The teacher
will write the word small on a circle. She
will model finding the synonym of the word small in the
thesaurus. The teacher will ask the students what other
word can they find in the thesaurus
for small. The teacher will use one of the “petals” to
write the synonym the students give (e.g. tiny). The
teacher will ask the students to give other synonyms
listed in the thesaurus (e.g. little, petite) She will
write these on the petals. The teacher will display the
synonym “flower” for small on the board. The students
will be divided into groups of fours. The teacher will
give each group a word to find in the thesaurus. The group
will have to find synonyms for the word to make a synonym
“flower”. The groups will share their “flowers”
with the class. The class will evaluate each group’s
“flowers” to make sure they are correct.
The flowers will be displayed on a bulletin word
titled “Synonym Garden”.
Activity
Three: The teacher will review synonyms and the use of
the thesaurus with students. The teacher will use the
AverKeys to model using the website http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm.
The teacher will model finding synonyms of words from the
story The Great Kapok tree (e.g. dwell-reside,
terrible-ghastly). The students will be given the
following activity sheet to complete using the above
website. The
activity sheet will be the first page of a personal
thesaurus for each student. The students will make a
personal thesaurus using tag board for the front and back
cover. The teacher will use a rubric to evaluate the
activity sheet.
Name_______________
Date____________________
Find
Synonyms for the following Vocabulary Words from The
Great Kapok Tree. Use the website
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
List
three synonyms for each vocabulary word below.
1.
worry
2.
fury
3.preserve
4.message
5.strange
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