<p> Vocabulary Strategies</p><p>Use a story to teach the word and have students create word stories: Henrietta Hippo Story Example</p><p>Word Wizards (found on www.readwritethink.org)and Shape Poems</p><p>You Try It! (Isabel Beck) Use check marks to indicate knowledge:</p><p>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</p><p>Purport</p><p>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:</p><p>Which word goes with crook?</p><p>Which word goes with “gift to build a new hospital?”</p><p>Which word goes with piano?</p><p>Which word goes with kindergartner?</p><p>Have you ever?</p><p>Describe a time when… (you might urge someone, etc.)</p><p>Applause! Applause!</p><p>Clap how much they would like to be described by the target word: Ex. Frank, vain, wise, funny, etc.</p><p>Idea Completions</p><p>Students indicate word meanings into a context in order to explain a situation.</p><p>Ex. The audience asked the virtuoso to play another piece of music because…</p><p>The skiing teacher said Maria was a novice on the ski slopes because…</p>