Synonym Memory

One of our recent reading skills was synonyms. In the past, your child has studied fairly simple synonyms. Each year synonyms/vocabulary should get increasingly more difficult. This year one of the main synonym skills they will work on is using context clues in reading to determine a synonym for a given term.

Ex:  The driver if the car was in despair following the wreck. 

Which word means the SAME as despair?

a.). trouble

b.). shock

c.). hopelessness

To practice this skill, each student made a stack of synonym cards. The students numbered off 1 & 2 and the ones made one stack and the twos made a different stack. I gave them 8 words for their list and they had to use their brain, or a thesaurus, to find a synonym for each word I gave them. Following this they had a set of cards they could use to play a matching game or go fish. 

For our first round of play the 1s paired up with the 2s and played synonym memory.