Word Relationships and Nuances - Part 2

To review word relationships and nuances in LEAP today, we created Word Relationship Word Clouds.  In doing so, students had to choose which category of word relationship was most interesting to them, or one they wanted to explore; like synonyms, antonyms, homophones, multiple meaning words, "stronger" words, etc.  Students explored thesaurus.com and to find word relationships for a ONE starting word if doing synonym, antonym, or "stronger" word.  If looking for homophone pairs or multiple meaning words students explored Google Images for words that appeared on classroom posters.  

As students explored, they added their words to ABCYa!'s word cloud generator.  They had to include Word Relationships five times (so it would be the biggest word on the cloud), their category three times (the next biggest), followed by as many words as they could find once.  It was a fun way to conclude our second week of word relationships and nuances.  Here are some of the results: