Name: NO PRINT Fall Synonyms Antonyms & Word Associations
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

This NO PRINT, interactive, iPad-friendly activity pack brings fun fall-themed relational vocabulary in your virtual or face-to-face classroom. Your students will love “raking” up synonyms, “brewing” up antonyms, and “harvesting” word associations. For a BONUS reinforcer, students can make a pie with an interactive game.

What's included

A menu page linking the four sections: Synonyms, Antonyms, Word Associations and Make a Pie
Twenty synonym items under the heading "Raking up Synonyms", each pairing a word with three choices — chilly against hot, breezy and cool; travel against journey, car and home
Twenty antonym items under "Brewing UP Antonyms" — empty against full, spill and none; harvest against plant, seed and fruit; scatter against gather, leaves and barrel
Twenty word-association items under "Harvesting Word Associations" — pumpkin with patch, corn with maze, thanksgiving with november, scarecrow with hay
A fourteen-screen "Make a Pie" reinforcer that asks the student to "Choose cherry, pumpkin, or apple for the filling", then "Choose a crust for your pie", and ends "This pie looks delicious! Touch the pie to start over."
A HOME button on all seventy-eight content screens for returning to the menu
A terms-of-use page and a credits page naming the font source

Resource types: Activities

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Pick the synonym of a target word from three competing options, choosing crunchy for crispy and chuckle for laugh
Pick the antonym of a target word from three options, choosing full for empty and gather for scatter
Link a word to the one it pairs with in everyday use — pumpkin with patch, corn with maze, hay with ride, thanksgiving with november
Reject a decoy that sounds like the target rather than relating to it, passing over horn for corn and care for scare
Reject a decoy that is merely associated with the target when a synonym or antonym is what is wanted, passing over bread when the word is toasty

Teaching tips

Each screen carries a HOME button back to the menu, so a session can move between the synonym, antonym and association sets without paging through them in order
The wrong choices are not random: the synonym items often offer an antonym as a decoy, and the association items often offer a rhyme, which makes each miss diagnostic rather than careless
The three sets can be run as separate sessions of twenty items each, since every set has its own title screen and its own menu link
The fall vocabulary — harvest, orchard, scarecrow, cider, hay ride, thanksgiving — is worth pre-teaching for students who have not met it, since several association items depend on knowing the pairing already
The "Make a Pie" sequence has no vocabulary in it, so it works as a short reward at the end of a session rather than as a fourth exercise

Skills covered

Synonym selection — students choose the word closest in meaning from three options, taking crunchy over smooth and hard when the word is crispy.
Antonym selection — students choose the opposite from three options, taking biggest over huge and smallest when the word is little.
Word association — students match a word to the one it habitually pairs with, joining pumpkin to patch, corn to maze and full to moon.
Resisting phonological decoys — the association items repeatedly offer a near-rhyme instead of a relation, such as horn beside corn and care beside scare.
Seasonal vocabulary — the sixty items draw on harvest, orchard, scarecrow, cider, hay ride, festival and thanksgiving, so the relational work carries fall content with it.
Touch-screen navigation — every screen carries a HOME button and the pie sequence advances on a touch, so students move through the pack themselves.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How are the wrong choices on each item put together?

Deliberately, so that a miss shows something. In the synonym set the decoys are often the opposite or a loose association: toasty is offered warm, cool and bread. In the antonym set they are near-relations: empty is offered full, spill and none. In the association set they are frequently near-rhymes: corn is offered maze, horn and smell, and scare is offered fright, care and ghost.

What kind of pairings does the word-association set use?

Everyday two-word combinations, most of them seasonal: pumpkin patch, corn maze, hay ride, apple cider, full moon, football field, scarecrow and hay, thanksgiving and november, acorn and nut. The relation is a phrase students will have heard rather than a category or a definition.

What happens in the Make a Pie section?

A short build-your-own sequence with no vocabulary in it. The student is told "We've got the crust! Touch the crust to continue", then "Choose cherry, pumpkin, or apple for the filling", then "Choose a crust for your pie", and finishes on "This pie looks delicious! Touch the pie to start over." It runs over fourteen screens because each filling leads to its own finished pie.