Synonym Poster

English Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

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Description

This poster provides a clear and concise guide to synonyms, helping students understand how words that means precisely or nearly the same as another word function in language. It is an excellent reference for vocabulary building, comprehension, and improving sentence variety in writing.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9E1LA08 9

Compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning

AC9E2LA07 9

Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

AC9E3LA07 9

Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating

AC9E4LA07 9

Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech are used

AC9E5LA07 9

Explain how the sequence of images in print, digital and film texts has an effect on meaning

AC9E6LA07 9

Identify and explain how images, figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to meaning

ACELA1453 8.4

Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning

ACELA1524 8.4

Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts

ACELA1468 8.4

Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

ACELA1482 8.4

Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example: doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense

ACELA1511 8.4

Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations

ACELA1494 8.4

Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text

ACELA1492 8.4

Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech

EN1-7B old

Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN2-9B old

Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

EN3-3A old

Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies

EN1-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions

EN1-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning

EN1-UARL-01 new

Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN1-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure

EN3-RECOM-01 new

Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

EN3-OLC-01 new

Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding

EN2-RECOM-01 new

Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension

VCELA281

Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text

VCELY258

Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating)

VCELA311

Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations

VCELA262

Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense

VCELA216

Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

VCELA180

Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning

VCELA340

Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts

Differentiation

Modifications

•    Display as a classroom resource for daily use.
•    Provide a black-and-white version for students to complete.
•    Integrate into online learning tools for vocabulary practice.

EXTENSIONS

•    Create a synonym-matching game.
•    Encourage students to write sentences using pairs of synonyms.
•    Use in creative writing to teach contrast and description.

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