Armistice Runner - Session 5 - Word Workshop

The 'Armistice Runner - Session 5 - Word Workshop' is an educational activity designed to enhance vocabulary skills among KS2 students. In this workshop, students are encouraged to explore different aspects of selected words, such as their meanings, usage in sentences, modifications through prefixes, suffixes, and verb tenses, as well as finding synonyms and antonyms. For example, the word 'looming' might be investigated for its connotations of something appearing as a large or threatening presence. Students would then create a sentence with the word, perhaps modify it to 'loomed' for past tense, and list synonyms like 'imminent' and antonyms such as 'receding'.

Other words included in the workshop are 'shrugged', 'linger', 'competitive', 'panic', 'pounding', 'recoiling', 'jolted', 'terrain', 'collapsed', 'vast', and 'calm'. Each word is broken down to understand its class, such as verb or adjective, and how it can be altered or used in different contexts. For instance, 'competitive' is an adjective that could be modified to 'uncompetitive' by adding a prefix, with synonyms like 'ambitious' and antonyms like 'unambitious'. This interactive and comprehensive approach to vocabulary building is an effective way for students to deepen their understanding of the English language and its nuances.