For Dickens' opening to his Tale of Two Cities, he uses one of the longest series of comma splices in the history of literature. Dickens seemingly did this for stylistic effect. In this lesson plan, learners create their own Dickens-like...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify pairs of antonyms, synonyms and homonyms in a fun to use review game for 2nd graders.

To use the thesaurus at Thesaurus.com, simply type a word in the gold search box at the top of the page and click the 'Search' button. A list of synonyms and antonyms will be returned.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on using a combination of reference materials and analyzing context clues and analogies to improve your knowledge of new words.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches about antonyms, synonyms, and homophones and follows up with several pages of opportunities to use Activotes to check for understanding.

Use this worksheet activity to develop your thesaurus research skills.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will review how to use a thesaurus. Uses links to an online web thesaurus to look up various words. Great starting point.

Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will recognize the functions of dictionaries and the types of information available in dictionaries used in schools. They will learn the differences between dictionaries and thesauruses....

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will use antonyms and synonyms as clues to guide a fellow student to guess the secret word in this Password-style vocabulary game. It is excellent for stretching the mind and...

Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.4.A. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...