Expanded Vocabulary Whole Lesson

This collection of resources is designed to give you at least one lesson on expanded vocabulary for children at upper primary school / lower high school level (Y4-8) (P5-7 S1-2). The bundle contains five resources; 1) a presentation which can be delivered as a lesson; 2) a collection of worksheets. 3) Three different quizzes.

Presentation

The presentation is structured as follows:

• What is expanded vocabulary?
• Worked examples
• Applying expanded vocabulary to sentences and writing
• Activities.

Throughout the presentation there are opportunities for class interaction, whiteboard work, questions, short activities to make the lesson as interactive as possible. There are regular links to real-life application and examples.

There are three activities that can be completed at the end including: Thesaurus Skills activity, true or false quiz, game of bingo.

The teaching of the lesson is broken down into teachable segments to scaffold learning.

Worksheet Pack
The worksheet pack contains 4 different worksheets each targeting a different skill set. The worksheets are as follows:

• Wordsearch (great starter activity. Answers given on a separate sheet.)
• Cut and stick
• A-Z Quiz (great plenary activity)
• Application to sentences (complete with LI. 2 activities included to allow for differentiation and scaffolding).

Quizzes
Three quizzes are included in this bundle. All 3 quizzes cover expanded vocabulary and synonyms. The difference between the 3 is in their difficulty. The quizzes are labelled “easy” “medium” “hard”. By providing you with all 3 quizzes, you can choose which quizzes are appropriate for your students. You could have the whole class working on one appropriate quiz together, or you could set students up working independently on quizzes tailored to their abilities.

All 3 quizzes include 30 questions split into numerous rounds. Each round has a different style of question type such as: multi-choice, true or false, odd one out etc. to maintain variety and enhance engagement. Each quiz has a round focused on application to sentences to ensure the quiz is relatable and applicable to learning beyond this lesson. Each quiz includes multi-choice questions to enhance accessibility. Answers are provided at the end of each round in the hard quiz so students can self/peer mark. In the medium and easy quiz, answers are provided after each question so pupils can individually select their answers. This keeps the quizzes as interactive as possible.