Young poets get inspiration and guidance for making word association poems with the Visual Thesaurus. Your class could complete this project with nothing more than a pencil and paper as well. A nice one-off for a substitute during your...

Students define simple words using Visual Thesaurus. In this thesaurus usage lesson, students work with simple words to practice using Visual Thesaurus and see how the tool can help them find new words to include in their writing.

Give your class the advantage of Thesaurus Power! They will use a thesaurus to understand word meanings and relationships. They focus on how a thesaurus functions and how it gives the entry word, definition, synonyms, antonyms, and part...

Help your young writers stay engaged with their writing through the practical use of a thesaurus. They work to reinforce the use of synonyms as a way of making writing more interesting and to determine word meaning by finding synonyms....

In this language arts activity, students learn to use a thesaurus to replace words they already know. Students read 20 sentences and replace the underlined word with a new word found in the thesaurus.

Incorporate this instructional activity on analogies into your day in the computer lab. Using the online Visual Thesaurus, middle and high schoolers work on understanding the relationships between each word pair. The Visual Thesaurus...

Smart, intelligent, perceptive. Here's a worksheet that asks kids to use a thesaurus (an online one, perhaps?) to find a series of synonyms for the six words listed.

Help your learners discover a variety of adjectives. After reading a passage as a class, small groups find every adjective and adverb in that passage. Once that task is complete, each group uses a thesaurus to find a synonym for every...

Use a thesaurus to define and learn synonyms for words and improve a piece of their writing. Students highlight weak words, use the thesaurus to find stronger synonyms, and edit their stories. This lesson allows learners to understand...

For this using a thesaurus worksheet, learners review how to use the writing tool and then use a thesaurus to replace the repeated or inexact words in 9 sentences.

In this writing worksheet, students read about how to use a thesaurus. Students also replace a word, using a thesaurus, in each of five sentences.

In this using a thesaurus worksheet, students read a description of how to use a thesaurus as a tool. Students then rewrite 10 sentences using a thesaurus to replace the underlined words.

In this thesaurus usage instructional activity, students use the thesaurus page to answer the 10 questions. Students improve their reading skills.

Word choice is the focus of a lesson designed to boost scholars' writing skills. Participants take a close look at their original work and enhance its readability with the help of a thesaurus.  Practice leads the way for the revision of...

Using Visual Thesaurus software, class members participate in a computer-based spelling bee. Then they work in groups to analyze the words and use deductive reasoning to infer spelling patterns. They then present one of their "rules" to...

In this using a thesaurus learning exercise, students read a sentence with a word underlined. Students use a thesaurus to change the underlined word to a stronger or more interesting synonym. There are 5 sentences.

Looking for a game that teaches students about how to use a thesaurus, and reinforces the concept of synonyms? Each player will have the opportunity to use their "tools" in this engaging lesson. They will use their thesauruses in order...

Celebrate Opposite Day by using a Visual Thesaurus to match words to their antonyms. They match a list of vocabulary words to their antonym counterparts using the Visual Thesaurus, and then they play Antonym Bingo with the words from...

Demonstrate strategies for tackling unfamiliar vocabulary words in preparation for the SAT. Using Visual Thesaurus computer software, middle and high schoolers interpret contextual clues, solve sample sentence completion questions, and...

With a provided synonyms doc. students replace overused words in a series of sentences using synonyms they find in the computer's thesaurus. When they are done early finishers are sent to a website containing synonym games. While this...

Students explore language arts by utilizing a thesaurus. For this synonyms lesson, students read a fishing story and identify the interesting and boring elements. Students discuss the boring words in the writing and utilize a thesaurus...

Pupils create trading cards for elements in the Periodic Table. Initially, they are introduced to the Periodic Table of Elements and the concept of elements in the world around us. After dividing into groups, learners use the Visual...

in this synonyms worksheet, students use a thesaurus to look up 12 words. Students then read four possible choices and circle the word that is not a synonym for the given word.

Identify the unique personal attributes of your class members. Begin by viewing the Visual Thesaurus and discussing displayed attributes associated with famous American leaders. Using these identity maps as models, pupils generate nouns...