Union+Terrace

=Lesson Plans Shared by= =Donna Forsythe=



This is a thesaurus lesson I do with third grade in October. I write the words on the attachment on bat shaped papers and read them to students before the story. I reflect that these are all words that they know the meaning of. When writing, there are times when you will want to think of another word to use instead. Discuss the purpose of a thesaurus. Model using it briefly. Read //Zoom Broom// by Margie Palatini. We discuss how a thesaurus can make them sound smarter than they are. I tell them that's why I use it. On the hand out, have them look up the words in the thesaurus and write at least 2 synonyms for each word. Review that if the word has a suffix, they only look up the root word.