Synonyms power point

A 3rd - 4th grade lesson on synonyms using the dictionary and thesaurus.

1. Finding Synonyms
By Ms. Jacobsen

2. First, we begin with a word.
Let’s try the word “evening”.

3. What do I do if I don’t
know what that word
means?
Look up the
word “evening”
in the
dictionary.
For example,
the word
“evening”
means late
afternoon or
early night.

4. Now that we know what
the word “evening”
means, let’s find a
synonym for it.

5. But first we need to know what a
synonym is, so take out your trusted
dictionaries again ...
A synonym is a
word whose
meaning is the
same or almost
the same to that
of another word
in the same
language.

6. Can you think
of a word that
means the
same thing or
almost the
same thing as
evening?

7. If you chose the word “night”, you are
very close, but that’s not quite it.

8. The word “evening” can be a little
tricky so let’s use another
resource to help us...
The Thesaurus!

9. A thesaurus is
a simply a
book of
synonyms,
which makes
it a perfect
resource for
finding
synonyms!

10. Look up the word “evening”
in your thesaurus and what
do you find?

11. How many people found the word...
Dusk?
Nightfall?
Close of day?
Sundown?
Sunset?
Eve?
Twilight?

12. No, not this Twilight...

13. This twilight.

14. After looking at our list of synonyms
we discover that “evening” is the
time of day that happens right
around sunset, before it gets
completely dark outside. We
sometimes refer to this time as
“dusk”.

15. Let’s practice finding
synonyms!
Please take
out your
language arts
journals. You
are about to
find some
synonyms!

16. Please find synonyms for the
following words:
Start
Rock
Pretty
Road
City
Finish
Small
Lead
You have 8
minutes.
Go!

17. Tomorrow we will go to the computer
lab and play a fun computer game that
will help us learn more about finding
synonyms for words.
Here is the website:
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders
.com/games/frog/frog.html

18. Anotonyms
On Wednesday, we will be learning
about antonyms. If a synonym is a
word that is the same or almost the
same as another word, what do you
think an antonym is? What do you
think an antonym for “evening”
might be ? Write your answers in
your language arts journal.

19. Content Standards:
2
nd
grade Language Arts/Vocabulary and Concept
Development: 1.7 Understand and explain
Antonyms and Synonyms
3
rd
grade Language Arts/Vocabulary and Concept
Development: 1.4 Use knowledge of antonyms,
synonyms, homophones, and homographs to
determine the meanings of words.
3
rd
grade Language Arts/Vocabulary and Concept
Development: 1.7 Use Dictionary to learn the
meaning of words
4
th
grade Language Arts/Vocabulary and Concept
Development: 1.5 Use a Thesaurus to determine
related words and concepts