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Show, Don’t Tell – Feelings Synonyms Poster Activity Pack
A set of 16 posters ready for your students to add synonyms to.
This poster pack is great for class vocabulary activities. Simply print and laminate these posters and encourage students to come up with their own words to add to the posters.
This poster pack includes examples of common emotional states:
- happy
- sad
- afraid
- cold
- shy
- hot
- excited
- sick
- having fun
- nervous
- angry
- worried
- frustrated
- hungry
- tired
- surprised
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-6B
Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts with specific language features and shows an emerging awareness of some purposes for spoken language
- EN1-1A
Communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations
- EN1-2A
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
- EN1-9B
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
- EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
- EN3-6B
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA224
Understand how texts are made cohesive by the use of resources, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms
- VCELA348
Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words
- VCELA166
Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes
- VCELA236
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things
- VCELT284
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques
- VCELA201
Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions
- VCELA325
Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1444
Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with othersElaborationsrecognising the effect of words, symbols, gestures and body language on the way communic...
- ACELT1605
Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tensionElaborationsexamining the author’s description of a c...
- ACELA1429
Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikesElaborationsrecognising some of the ways we can use speech, gesture, writing and media to communicate feelings (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinki...
- ACELA1462
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and thingsElaborationsexploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happyâÂ...
- ACELA1464
Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonymsElaborationsexploring how texts develop their themes and ideas, building information through connecting similar and contrasting dissi...
- ACELA1520
Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing wordsElaborationsnoting how a general word is often used for a more specific word already mentioned, for example ‘Look at those apples. Can I have one?' (Skills: Liter...
- ACELA1787
Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressionsElaborationsextending students’ vocabularies for the expression of feelings and emotions (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinki...
- ACELA1512
Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contextsElaborationsmoving from general, ‘all-purpose’ words, for example ‘cut’, to more sp...
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This doesn’t seem to show the feelings without words when you download. It downloads the synonyms poster pack with the vocabulary surrounding the characters on the sheets.
Rhian · Feb 4th, 2015