Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms

Celebrate Valentine's Day with a coloring page in which scholars decide whether a pair of words are synonyms or antonyms, and color them either red or purple depending on their decision. 

Supply your ELL classroom with this worksheet exploring synonyms and antonyms for popular adjectives. First they choose the best synonym listed for the words final, great, tired, tiny, merry, and unhappy. Then they choose the best...

We most commonly look at synonyms and antonyms in terms of adjectives. If something is the opposite of small, it's large. Shift the focus from adjectives to verbs with this practice sheet. The first exercise asks the pupil to find the...

What is a synonym? What about an antonym? Read the boxed section at the top of the page to review these terms with your scholars before they give the worksheet a shot. For the nine questions provided, they decide whether the underlined...

Match words to their synonyms and antonyms with a card flip game. Kids turn over two cards on their turn and determine if they are synonyms or antonyms; if not, they replace the cards and try again.

Now that your English language learners have mastered identifying the synonyms and antonyms of adjectives, nouns, and verbs, mix them all together and have them try again! This activity requires learners to find the antonyms and synonyms...

In this synonym/antonym worksheet using nouns, students are given one set of nouns and select the best synonym for each word. Next, students repeat the activity with a new set of words, selecting the best antonym.

Reinforce grammar instruction with a synonym worksheet equipped with 12 fill-in-the blank sentences. Scholars read each sentence focusing on the underlined word, then choose between two additional words that best make a synonym pair.

Mix up your writing lessons by having kids look at recent newspaper articles instead of their own work. They work in pairs and rewrite sports news articles using synonyms and antonyms for a set number of words. Then they share their work...

Formatted as if it were in a standardized test, this worksheet provides learners with basic practice identifying synonyms and antonyms. There are only three short sections, so this could also serve as a quick formal assessment.