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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 or when learning about synonyms.
Print out the posters and hang them up around the room. Pair students up and give each partner group a set of post-it notes. Have students participate in a gallery walk where they write synonyms on post-it notes and add them to each poster.
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.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.C
Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.C
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

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