Y6 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This antonyms lesson covers the prior learning of synonyms before moving onto the main skill of antonyms.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objective
English Year 6: (6G6.1) How words are related by meaning as synonyms and antonyms [for example, big, large, little]
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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of synonyms before moving onto the main skill of antonyms. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Autumn Block 2 Guidance with Notes for Year 6 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 6 National Curriculum.
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These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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This Antonyms Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of synonyms before moving onto the main skill of antonyms.
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The aim of this Year 6 Synonym Matching Activity 1 is to build upon known vocabulary by introducing new and varied synonyms.
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Use this Year 6 Synonym Matching Activity 2 which gives children a selection of cards that when clicked, reveal vocabulary underneath to expand their vocabulary.
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This Year 6 Synonym Matching Activity 3 presents pupils with a selection of vocabulary cards that need to be paired as synonyms.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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The purpose of this Year 6 Antonym Matching Activity 3 is to build upon known vocabulary by introducing new and varied antonyms.
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This Year 6 Anotonym Matching Activity 2 aims to expand pupils' vocabulary through matching pairs of antonyms.
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Use this Year 6 Anotonym Matching Activity 1 to expand pupils' vocabulary. Children are presented with a selection of cards, and the positioning of each needs to be memorised and the matching pairs selected in order to complete the game.
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This Year 6 Antonyms Flash Cards Game is designed to check pupils' ability to identify antonyms of different words.
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This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the antonyms lesson.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising and using antonyms.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.