Word choice

Resource Description This Writing Anchor Chart Set includes 2 colorful posters specifically designed to get students to think about and alter their word choice by presenting higher level alternatives. Blow these up using the instructions I included and print on multiple sheets, then laminate. I also printed 8x11 copies to include in my students' Writing Tools Folder. This resource includes 2 Anchor Charts: Said is Dead! which features other words for said, which is terribly overused in my…

Students will add ZING to their writing when they use this resource! This Word Choice Reference Guide will help them find and use vivid words and bury dead, dull words. Included in this resource are: Synonyms for commonly used words Words to substitute for “said” Descriptive words for every color of the rainbow Transition words Words to describe emotions Sensory words to describe setting, objects, people, animals and food. Two different cover designs Just print, laminate the cover, and put…

Retired Word List Anchor Chart

Using Fireflies to teach the importance of word choice in writing: A mentor text activity that focuses on revising sentences! Multiple FREE printables included! - Crafting…

'Sophisticated Vocabulary'

English Ways to Say BECAUSE, Synonym Words Because as as a result of as long as as things go being by cause of by reason of by virtue of considering due to for for the reason that for the sake of in as much as in behalf of in that in the interest of in view of now that on the grounds that over owing to seeing since thanks to through whereas

Try these books to your 6- to 7-year-old to strengthen her understanding of idioms and build basic vocabulary.

Teaching students the importance of good word choice can improve their writing skills and their oral language vocabulary.

I'm going to share something else that I use with my students. I got the original idea from my amazing cooperating teacher during my Student Teaching, Lorissa! I learned so much during those few months and am so grateful that she opened her classroom to me! Hopefully, one day I will have my own "Intern" as they call Student Teachers in Florida. This is a retelling bookmark that you can make with your students. It can help them out in Reading, obviously, but can also reinforce what they do in…