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Writing Skills: Linguistic Flexibility
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Writing Skills: Linguistic Flexibility
This straightforward worksheet focuses on using synonyms to express the same idea in different ways. While expanding your students' vocabulary, it also increases the linguistic flexibility of their writing.
Writing Skills: Linguistic Flexibility
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Welcome to my Linguistic Flexibility worksheet. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. The next activity is called Linguistic Flexibility: a similar activity where students are tasked with giving synonyms to different words and sentences. So that they get used to using a wider variety of words. Thanks for reviewing my worksheet. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!
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Writing Skills - Linguistic Flexibility - Using Synonyms
This worksheet offers a selection of sentences containing adjectives and verbs that are underlined; students must identify and list three synonyms for each underlined word.
Linguistic flexibility is a vital skill for strong, effective writing. This vocabulary activity (complete with a sample answer key) broadens students' lexicons while motivating them to improve the precision of their expression. This is a fairly simple, straightforward worksheet tasking students with identifying and listing multiple synonyms of specific words within sentences. It gives teachers and therapists alike the opportunity to discuss variations of meanings across synonyms, while encouraging students to use a thesaurus while they are writing.
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