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Unit III: Lesson I Slow Way Home
Vocabulary Assessment
Part I
Milinda Jay, Ph. D
Read aloud
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Slow Way Home, chapter 9
Create your own vocabulary list
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As you listen to the read aloud, jot down
any unfamiliar words
Teamwork
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Students number off 1-8
Now, you have 8 teams.
Sit with your team.
Your team number is your
Chapter
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Each team will take a chapter of the book,
1-8, corresponding with your team number
Make a list
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Go through each chapter and make a list of
any words that are unfamiliar to your
group, or that may be unfamiliar or
difficult for other members of your class
Write the sentence
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Have one member of the group write out
the sentence from the book in which the
word is found
Define the word
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Have another member of your group write
the dictionary definition as your group
finds the word in a dictionary and reads
aloud the definition.
Create a Master List on your
Teacher’s Computer
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Each group take turns going to the
teacher’s computer and typing in your
vocabulary words, with definitions and
sentences.
Think of a way to teach
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While one group member is typing, the
rest of the group plans a strategy for
teaching the words and definitions to the
rest of class so that they can remember
them.
Beginning with Group 1, Chapter
I
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Each group takes turns teaching their
definitions to the class.
Game time!
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Have students sit with their group members.
Judge’s Table: Choose one judge from each group to take their group’s list
of words and definitions to the judge’s table. When one of their words is
used in a round of play, that judge will determine if the definition is
correct, and the sentence appropriate. The judges as a group will decide
which group banged first. The judges will also keep up with the scoring as a
group.
Teacher will flash one of the vocabulary words up on a screen, or show a
card up with the word on it and say the word
The first group ready to define the word and use it in a sentence will bang
a book on their desk. The group of judges will determine who banged first.
One member of the group who banged first will then define their word and
use it in a sentence.
After the judges have determined if the definition and sentence is
accurate the teacher will move on to the next word. Teacher moves on even
if the definition was wrong, but she keeps that word in the pile to be used
in another round.
When all the words have been defined correctly, judges tally the scores
and name the team winner.
Teacher
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Your students have provided you with a
test bank of vocabulary words, definitions
and sentences. Use this test bank to make
a multiple choice, matching or fill in the
blank test to be given to students
tomorrow.
Homework
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Study for tomorrow’s test!