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This week, we are again looking at synonyms and antonyms. Can you remember what synonyms and antonyms are? A synonym is a An antonym is a word that has the word that has the synonym antonym same (or nearly opposite meaning the same)

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A synonym is a word that has the same (or nearly the same) meaning as another word. An antonym is a word that has the

pposite meaning

to another word.

This week, we are again looking at synonyms and antonyms.

Can you remember what synonyms and antonyms are?

synonym antonym

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How many ‘small’ and ‘large’ synonyms can you think of?

This week, we are again looking at synonyms and antonyms relating to size.

Work with a partner to list as many as you can before the timer ends (you have five minutes).

Start

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Here are your spelling words for this week.

immense vast gigantic gargantuan mammoth miniature miniscule insignificant microscopic petite

How many of these did you

write on your list?

Could you order these size

words on your whiteboards from smallest to largest? Is there a right or wrong answer?

How are the words related

as synonyms and antonyms?

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Let’s spin the spinner!

Work with your partner to write a sentence that contains a size synonym/antonym on your whiteboards. Could your sentence also contain a modal verb or adverb of possibility?

Spin Reveal Challenge

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Let’s spin the spinner!

Work with your partner to write a sentence that contains a size synonym/antonym on your whiteboards. Could your sentence begin with a fronted adverbial?

Spin Reveal Challenge

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Let’s spin the spinner!

Work with your partner to write a sentence that contains a size synonym/antonym on your whiteboards. Could your sentence be written in the passive voice?

Spin Reveal Challenge

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Let’s spin the spinner!

Work with your partner to write a sentence that contains a size synonym/antonym on your whiteboards. Could your sentence include a word with a possessive apostrophe?

Spin Reveal Challenge

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Let’s spin the spinner!

Work with your partner to write a sentence that contains a size synonym/antonym on your whiteboards. Could your sentence use ‘before’ as a subordinating conjunction?

Spin Reveal Challenge

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Here are your spelling words for this week.

Work hard to practise these size synonyms and antonyms. immense vast gigantic gargantuan mammoth miniature miniscule insignificant microscopic petite

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