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Synonym Poster
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Synonym Poster

This poster provides a clear and concise guide to synonyms, helping students understand how words that means precisely or nearly the same as another word function in language. It is an excellent reference for vocabulary building, comprehension, and improving sentence variety in writing.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to understand the different purposes of images in various text types and how they contribute to meaning.
  • We are learning to use nouns to represent people, places, objects and ideas and to identify the articles and adjectives to build noun groups or to express verbs as verb groups.
  • We are learning that verbs are doing, thinking, saying and relating words.
  • We are learning to compare the similarities and differences in quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech in different types of texts.
  • We are learning to identify and compare sequences of images in print, digital and film texts and explain their effect on the viewer.
  • We are learning to identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts.
  • We are learning to understand the different purposes of images in different text types and how they contribute to meaning.
  • We are learning to use common nouns, proper nouns and pronouns to represent people, places, objects and ideas, e.g. love, time, and beauty, and to use this knowledge of nouns and adjectives to build noun groups.
  • We are learning that verbs are doing, thinking, saying and relating words and that time is represented through verb tense, e.g. she arrived, she is arriving.
  • We are learning to compare the similarities and differences in quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech in different types of texts.
  • We are learning to recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech.
  • We are learning to identify and compare sequences of images in print and digital texts and explain their effect on the viewer.
  • We are learning to identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts.

Curriculum alignment

AC9E2LA07 9 Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups AC9E1LA08 9 Compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning AC9E6LA07 9 Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning AC9E5LA07 9 Explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning AC9E4LA07 9 Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used AC9E3LA07 9 Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating ACELA1453 8.4 Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning ACELA1468 8.4 Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives ACELA1524 8.4 Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts ACELA1482 8.4 Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example: doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense ACELA1494 8.4 Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text ACELA1492 8.4 Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech ACELA1511 8.4 Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations
EN3-3A old Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies EN2-9B old Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts EN1-7B old Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter EN1-4A old Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies EN2-RECOM-01 new Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN3-OLC-01 new Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding EN3-RECOM-01 new Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN1-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions EN1-RECOM-01 new Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning EN1-UARL-01 new Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose EN1-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
VCELA311 Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations VCELA340 Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts VCELA281 Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text VCELY258 Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating) VCELA262 Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense VCELA216 Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives VCELA180 Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Display as a classroom resource for daily use.
•    Provide a black-and-white version for students to complete.
•    Integrate into online learning tools for vocabulary practice.
 

Extensions

•    Create a synonym-matching game.
•    Encourage students to write sentences using pairs of synonyms.
•    Use in creative writing to teach contrast and description.

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