Share with us everything you know about Synonyms....
This week we focused on looking at "describing" words in text and seeing if we can make the text more exciting by using synonyms!
During this Guided Reading Group, the students chose the word BAD to find antonyms and synonyms for. The above picture shows all of the words that they came up with! I loved the "grounded" synonym and "behaving" antonym. Fabulous!
During the above guided reading group, students listened to a short story and heard 4 students try to make a connection with the story. The students then had to choose what kind of connection each of the 4 students were making to the short story. The options were "Text-to Text", "Text-to-World", "Text-to-Self", and "No Connection". They were doing a great job, I love over-hearing them discuss why they were choosing the connection they thought. I heard one student defending their choice by saying. "It's a text-to-text connection because she said I READ..." GREAT!!! (This center is a completely independent center on the SMART board. The students know how to navigate, discuss their answer and how to move from story to story!)
Guided Reading Group analyzing BARE, OLD, and DOWN from the story, "The Enormous Watermelon."
Friday, our reading buddies helped reinforce what we learned all week by assisting us in a reading and creating our own poster displaying a describing word and antonyms and synonyms for it. Each student presented their poster to the class.
