Summarize My Description In your own words briefly

Summarize My Description In your own words, briefly describe the most important details in the content or text. When I say or write the important stuff in my own words. How I’ll Remember This Word Additional Experiences/Connections What connection can I make with the word or what mnemonic device can I create for it? Do I have any experience with this word? Have I used it before in another class? cutting-edge research concrete strategies Language Arts My Teacher’s Description sustainable success

Using Questions to Describe a Word VOCABULARY Person What does he/she look like? Where did he/she come from? Why is he/she important? Place What does this place look like? Who went there or came from there? What happened there? Why was this important? Thing What does it look like? What does it do? How big is it? Where would I find it? cutting-edge research Event When/where did it happen? Why did it happen? Who was there? What happened after that? Why was this event important? concrete strategies sustainable success

VOCABULARY Using Sentence Stems to Describe a Word It is kind of like _____________. It is similar to ______________. It looks like_______________. It is when you _____________. It’s where you go to ___________. It feels like_______________. It smells like______________. You use it when you___________. The word _____ is related to _____ by/when____. cutting-edge research concrete strategies sustainable success

Nonfiction Fables Biographies Fairy Tales Letter/Articles Short Stories Instructions/Procedures Novels Charts Retells Genre Poetry Drama Simple Poems Plays Proverbs Skits Riddles Limericks cutting-edge research concrete strategies sustainable success

Frayer Model Definition (in own words) Examples Characteristics Word Nonexamples (Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2 nd Edition, p. 69) cutting-edge research concrete strategies sustainable success

Frayer Model • Closed • Simple (curve does not intersect itself) A simple, closed plane figure made up of three or more line segments. • Plane figure (2 dimensional) • Made up of three or more line segments • No dangling parts Examples Polygon Nonexamples • Rectangle • Circle • Triangle • Cone • Pentagon • Arrow (Ray) • Hexagon • Cube • Trapezoid • Letter A (Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2 nd Edition, p. 69) cutting-edge research concrete strategies sustainable success

Verbal-Visual Word Association Definition Personal Association (from dictionary and in the student’s own words) (they must connect the word to themselves or something they already know in order to learn it) Word Examples (students write the definition in their own words) Non-example (must be relevant, I tell the students to think about the thing that is opposite of the vocabulary term) (Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2 nd Edition, p. 69) cutting-edge research concrete strategies sustainable success