Learning Activity 5-B-1
Words to Teach
Assignment Objectives
- Recognize the connection that vocabulary has to reading comprehension
- Identify pre-reading strategies to teach students vocabulary words found in the various texts they will read
Assignments
Total 20 points Rubric
Read Evidence-based Reading Instruction
- Vocabulary Development, pp. 112-113
- Vocabulary Instruction in a Balanced Reading Program, pp. 114-124
- Teaching Ideas, pp. 130 - 133
Select a grade appropriate text that contains unique words that you will teach to your students.
- List at least five words that are used repeatedly throughout the text that students must be able to define.
- Describe at least three pre-reading activities that you could use to teach these vocabulary words.
- Identify one figurative phrase and three heteronyms that we have not used in this course. Describe pre-reading activities to teach students to recognize the abstract meaning of these phrases.