This graphic organizer can be used to help students add to their vocabulary! Put a word like "happy" or "fun" in the center of the continuum and add synonyms on either side of the continuum that decrease/increase in emphasis (e.g., from left to right: "glad, gleeful, happy, overjoyed, thrilled, ecstatic"). Information adapted from the book, "From Talking to Writing: Strategies for Supporting Narrative and Expository Writing" by Terrill M. Jennings and Charles W. Haynes.