Using a thesaurus: spider crab
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Use a thesaurus to rewrite the first sentence, replacing the word “hungry” with a synonym.
Challenge 2
Use a thesaurus to rewrite the second sentence, replacing the words “astounded” and “mound” with synonyms.
Challenge 3
Write your own sentence about the spider crabs featured in the film clip. Try to include some of the words from the Word Wall and use a thesaurus at least once.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) Once its shell had hardened, the hungry spider crab scavenged for dead starfish on the ocean floor.
2) The underwater cameraman was astounded, as the mound of spider crabs reached epic proportions.
Word Wall
spider crabs
crustacean
army
seagrass
plain
congregated
materialised
marched
clambered
spiny, long-legged
vulnerable
expandable shell