Introduction
The rationale for this lesson is to help students understand comparison and contrast by encouraging them to read stories that have characters with similar and different adventures and experiences. During this lesson, students are asked to point out the similarities and differences of the characters. I will engage students with fun activities, games and graphic organizers. Aftercompleting the Web Quest, my students will understand that they use synonyms and antonyms every day in conversations and writing and do not realizeit. Students will learn new words, be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text, retell stories, describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, identify similarities and differences in a text, and use relationships between words such as synonyms and antonyms to better understand each of the words. The use of technology will enhance their application skills of these commonly used words and help them get excited in learning this concept by playing fun games throughout the lesson.
Process
8. Synonym Sam's Lab Interactive Game
- Assist Sam and her dog, Rufus, find synonyms. Look at Rufus as he does something cool. Afterwards, three, green boxes will slide down for you to view. The first one will have word written in green, then the last two boxes have a question mark on them with two, red arrows beside them.
- Click on the red arrow until you find the correct synonym, then click on the orange circle with the check mark to see if you chose the correct word. Enjoy playing with Sam and Rufus!
- To begin playing, click on the Control button, then place your mouse over the link at the same time. When the hand appears, click on the link.
- http://pbskids.org/lions/games/synsam.html