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This is a fun, vocabulary expanding worksheet that is based on a play on words.

To introduce the concept of synonyms to KS3 pupils I state to the students how “synonym” sounds like another funny word - “cinnamon”! In then asking who likes/ knows what a cinnamon roll is it allows the pupils to remember what a synonym is by association once I show them the task.

Pupils must fill in the dry and boring synonym roll with a delicious drizzle of ambitious vocabulary. This is a great introduction to pupils on how to use a thesaurus as well as a way for teachers to note at the start of the year which pupils already have an ambitious vocabulary or gaps in their vocabulary.

There is an additional challenge at the end of each worksheet for pupils to write either a sentence or paragraph which includes some of their collected synonyms.

I always print out the four different challenges of worksheet and allow the pupils to choose whether they would like the sheet with 4, 6 or 9 synonym rolls.

Keep these in their workbooks and encourage pupils to return to them in any creative writing tasks.