Week 10

Antonyms: Grammar

2nd Grade English

Facilitating Positive Transfer in the student's learning of Antonyms would occur by starting the lesson plan with synonyms. It has been shown that students learn antonyms successfully by connecting the similarities and differences between synonyms and antonyms. Worksheets and group activities are tools that can be used. This way of learning by connecting the student's previous knowledge of synonyms also facilitates near transfer of learning. With this particular lesson, facilitating learning using far transfer would be difficult but could be facilitated through connecting and focusing on the structural differences between antonyms and synonyms. Negative transfer of learning antonyms would be prevented by making sure that the students learned synonyms correctly with no misconceptions to eliminate any ineffective learning structures. The early this can be identified, through student presentations, projects or testing, the easier it is to prevent it.