Shades of Meaning Activity
Using the Shades of Meaning Activity, your kids can read the task cards and choose the best word to fill in the blank. This is a fun synonyms activity!
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How to teach Shades of Meaning
Using the Shades of Meaning Activity, read the task cards and choose the best word to fill in the blank. Use the number on each umbrella to complete the Shades of Meaning – Fill in the Blank worksheet to show your answers.
Sometimes, words have different shades of meaning to help tell how we are feeling or what we are thinking.
Extension Activity – Look at the Shades of Meaning raindrops. Put the raindrops into piles based on the matching numbers. Then, sort the raindrops by shades of meaning from weakest to strongest. Complete the Shades of Meaning – Sorting Raindrops worksheet.
Other resources to use with this Shades of Meaning Activity
If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about shades of meaning or synonyms.
Use these Shades of Meaning Flash Cards or Shades of Meaning Worksheet as additional resources for your students.
Introduce this activity by asking students to share words that mean “big”, such as big, large, and huge. Next, ask students to help you answer the questions and sort the words in order. Finally, students can try to think of more examples of words.
Be sure to check out more Figurative Language resources and Synonym Worksheets.
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