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Paraphrase with Synonyms WorksheetParaphrase with Synonyms Worksheet
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Paraphrase with Synonyms

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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.

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Concepts

synonyms, paraphrasing, Vocabulary, word choice, sentence variety

Additional Tags

english language arts

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

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