The document discusses a thesaurus and its purpose. A thesaurus contains synonyms, or words that have the same or similar meanings. It allows users to find alternative words when writing to make their meaning or ideas come across in a more interesting way. The document also provides an example of a mad libs activity where users would find synonyms to fill in the blanks using a thesaurus.
9. I am full of synonyms . Synonyms are words with the same meanings Yep, it is large. Large!? Its huge! Its not huge, its tremendous! That wart is big.
10. Why do you need a thesaurs is you already know how to spell a word and what it means?
11. MadLibs Activity 1. Complete your MadlLibs “Dinner Out” worksheet using words from the WordBank or your own. 2. Find each of your completed words in the Thesaurus. 3. Review and find another word for the one you chose. 4. On the back side of your activity sheet, complete the MadLib using your words from the Thesaurus .
12. MadLibs WordBank Adjectives: describing words good great bad neat messy clean cute ugly blue (or any color) nice big small hard soft Nouns: things, animals, people, places dog cat duck shoe sofa Verbs: action words move run jump give throw eat scream grow