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Balloon Festival Word Choices

Grade 2 practice telling apart words with close meanings, like toss and hurl or thin and scrawny, at a hot air balloon festival.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.2.5.b

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1 Common Core standard
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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students tell apart closely related verbs such as toss and hurl.
Students tell apart closely related adjectives such as slender and scrawny.
Students choose the word with the right strength for a sentence.

How to use

Act out toss, hurl, stroll and stomp with the class before starting. Students then choose words by strength, and the open response can be shared aloud.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.2.5.b

Tell apart shades of meaning among closely related verbs (toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).

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Name Date

Balloon Festival Word Choices

Choose the word that fits best.

Action words

Words that mean almost the same can still show a different strength. Choose the word that fits best.

Every autumn, hot air balloons fill the sky over Maple Hill Field. Ravi and his cousin Elena go to the festival and try the games. They notice that some words are gentle and others are strong.

At the ring game, Ravi softly ___ a beanbag into a bucket right in front of him. Which word fits best?