What's another word for paraphrasing? Ask your pupils to put their minds to work in order to replace underlined words in a series of sentences with appropriate synonyms.

Concepts

synonyms, paraphrasing, Vocabulary, word choice, sentence variety

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Support beginning ELLs further by providing a list of synonyms that they could use in each situation
• Extend the activity by choosing lines from a text you are currently reading and asking learners to underline a few words and come up with synonyms for those words

Classroom Considerations

• The sentences provided in this ESL worksheet are a bit out of context and are not all related to one another

Pros

• Includes suggested answers
• Requires learners to tap into their own vocabulary and really think about what words sound right in the context provided
• The exercise begins with an example that shows learners how they might tackle this interesting synonym replacement task

Cons

• None