Authentic+Instruction

Authentic Instruction


 * Licensure Area**- Elementary Education


 * Title and Audience –** Learning Synonyms and Antonyms 4th grade Reading


 * Objectives-** 4.1.spi.27. Choose a logical word to complete an analogy using synonyms and antonyms.

ü chalkboard/dry erase board/smart board ü writing utensil for the board ü list of basic commonly used words
 * Materials-**


 * Description-** On the top of the board above where students can reach, the teacher has written the definition of synonym and antonym and gives two examples. The teacher uploads a video from the internet the students will watch that demonstrates how synonyms and antonyms are used. After, a worksheet is handed out with a list of common words like good, bad, etc and synonyms and antonyms for each so they can see the difference between a synonym and antonym. The students then are broken up into two even teams and asked about their favorite colors, sports, tv shows and two analogies using the information from the students are written on the board, one for each team. One word is left out of each sentence, and the students one by one write a word on the board that is a synonym to "like". Once everyone on the team has had a turn, the words are reviewed by the teacher and the words are erased. Then the teacher asks the students what they dislike, and write two new analogies on the board, one for each team (the sentences should be silly so that when the students write antonyms for the word "bad", it will make the students laugh). The students then are asked to find an antonym for the word "bad". This will continue until each student feels confident in completing analogies using synonyms and antonyms.


 * Scaffold-**
 * For visual learners, the words are put into lists on the board to see what words are similar to each other, or are synonyms and with ones are not alike or opposite, or are antonyms.
 * For auditory learners, the students can hear the list being said back to them so when they hear the word “good” they know “great” is a synonym and “worse” is an antonym.
 * For kinesthetic or experimental learners, the act of putting the words into the different lists allows the students to physically put the words that match up together, and learning why the words that do not match up do not belong in the list.
 * Technology to support Authentic Instruction-**
 * Internet
 * [|www.synonym.com] for a list of common synonyms if the students need more besides the list given to them in class.
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