Vocabulary Strategies

Use a story to teach the word and have students create word stories: Henrietta Hippo Story Example

Word Wizards (found on www.readwritethink.org)and Shape Poems

You Try It! (Isabel Beck) Use check marks to indicate knowledge:

Word Know it well, can explain Know something Have seen or Do not know the it, use it in a sentence about it, can relate heard the word word (include sentence) it to a situation tyranny grapnel

Purport

Word Associations: After discussing explanations for the words accomplice, virtuoso, philanthropist, and novice, ask students to associate one of their new words with a presented word or phrase:

Which word goes with crook?

Which word goes with “gift to build a new hospital?”

Which word goes with piano?

Which word goes with kindergartner?

Have you ever?

Describe a time when… (you might urge someone, etc.)

Applause! Applause!

Clap how much they would like to be described by the target word: Ex. Frank, vain, wise, funny, etc.

Idea Completions

Students indicate word meanings into a context in order to explain a situation.

Ex. The audience asked the virtuoso to play another piece of music because…

The skiing teacher said Maria was a novice on the ski slopes because…