Shades of Meaning

Shades of Meaning - Synonyms

I love this work with synonyms - it is a great way to get students thinking about their word choices in both their writing and everyday conversation.

Some ideas for use:

• classifying the degrees of meaning of each synonym
• play charades or password
• allow children to choose 2 - 3 words for sentences or stories
• as a group create sentences and switch synonyms to see how each modifies the sentence

Desktop Cursive Cards

Last year I made a cursive writing desk top template for some of my students. These are a really handy reference to have for students as they develop their penmanship.

I made one side upper case letters with numerals and lower case with numerals on the reverse side. I have also included a template of upper and lower case letters together, and a set with dotted thirds also.

These are available in two different fonts, D'Nealian and Learning Curve.

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Rainbow Frog Adjective Game

One Montessori activity I love is the Detective Adjective Game. You can find an outline of this at HERE, but essentially children learn to discern the different types of triangles through a guessing game using adjectives as clues.

Last year I made a different version of this game for a tutoring student with learning difficulties. I got the idea after we had a session discussing their favourite book Rainbow Frogs.