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Contextualized Synonyms

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Activity Type: Introduce
Activity Form: Peer
Grade: 2, 3
Group Size: Pair, Whole Class
Length: 20 minutes
Materials: Decodable Passage: "The Angry King"
Goal: Student will identify synonyms to challenging words in the selected passage.
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What to do

  1. Welcome students!

Today, we're going to look at synonyms, words that mean the same things as other words.

The story, "The Angry King," has a few unusual words in it. I've underlined a few of them (The words "clad," "flung," "glum," and "intend" should be underlined on the students' copy of the story.)

Let's practice finding synonyms for a word that is a bit difficult.

  1. (Ask students to find synonyms for the word, "blasted" from the sentence, "The sled blasted past the tunnel.")
  2. (Ask students to work with a partner to come up with synonyms to the underlined words.)
  3. (Gather as a group to hear words the students identified.)


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Student will identify synonyms to challenging words in the selected passage.