Armistice Runner - Session 4 - Word Workshop

The "Armistice Runner - Session 4 - Word Workshop" is an educational tool aimed at enhancing vocabulary skills among KS2 students. Each worksheet prompts students to explore a specific word in detail, including its meaning, usage in a sentence, and word class. Students are encouraged to modify the word by adding prefixes or suffixes, changing its form to plural or singular, or altering the verb tense. To deepen their understanding, they must identify synonyms—words with similar meanings—and antonyms—words with opposite meanings. This comprehensive approach to word study helps to enrich students' language and comprehension skills.

For example, with the word 'sheer', students would explore its meaning, use it in a sentence like "The sheer cliff was daunting to climbers," and modify it by adding a suffix to get 'sheerly'. They would then list synonyms such as 'absolute' and antonyms such as 'opaque'. This process is repeated for a variety of words, including 'filthy', 'vanished', 'comfort', 'deserted', 'glimpse', 'imagine', 'hostile', 'affection', 'delicate', 'transparent', 'inform', 'sympathy', 'purpose', 'haunt', 'condition', 'grief', 'desperate', 'gratitude', 'relief', 'rigid', and 'briskness'. Each word is dissected to give students a robust understanding of its applications and nuances, fostering a richer vocabulary and better language skills.