Instructional Terms
Helping Students Expand Vocabulary (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
6-12
Grade Range:
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary:
Vocabulary
Transcript
The various district assessments that a teacher has to administer over the course of a year can contain some language that students are not necessarily familiar with, and you need to be careful not to assume that they know what the language means because it can change the outcome of the assessment. So throughout the year, we take some of those specific words and define them together, and then throughout the year I use them in my own assessments so that students are consistently familiar with them and they understand what the words mean. For example, if you're asking the students to draw a picture of something you might want to use the word diagram, a word that you've defined with the students, so that they know when they see that word diagram in their district assessment they will know what it's asking them to actually do.
Activity Objective
The goal of Instructional Terms: Helping Students Expand Vocabulary (Virtual Tour) is to explicitly teach the word meaning of instructional terms that appear most often in district assessments.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
-Display instructional terms that are most often found in the assessments that are used in your school district. -Create a list of instructional terms with your students. This will help them take ownership of their learning. -Revisit the definitions regularly. As students become more familiar with these terms, they are more likely to automatically identify and define them independently.
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