Language Arts Summarize My Teacher’s Description My Description In your own words, briefly describe the most important details in the content or text. When I say or write the important stuff in my own words. How I’ll Remember This Word Additional Experiences/Connections What connection can I make with the word or what mnemonic device can I create for it? Do I have any experience with this word? Have I used it before in another class? Language Arts

Using Questions to Describe a Word Person Place What does he/she look like? Where did he/she come from? Why is he/she important? What does this place look like? Who went there or came from there? What happened there? Why was this important? Thing Event What does it look like? What does it do? How big is it? Where would I find it? When/where did it happen? Why did it happen? Who was there? What happened after that? Why was this event important? VOCABULARY

Using Sentence Stems to Describe a Word It is kind of like _________________________. It is similar to ___________________________. It looks like_____________________________. It is when you __________________________. It’s where you go to _____________________. It feels like_____________________________. It smells like____________________________. You use it when you_____________________. The word __________ is related to __________ by/when____. VOCABULARY

Instructions/Procedures Fiction Nonfiction Fables Fairy Tales Short Stories Novels Biographies Letter/Articles Instructions/Procedures Charts Retells Genre Poetry Drama Simple Poems Proverbs Riddles Limericks Plays Skits

Definition (in own words) Frayer Model Definition (in own words) Characteristics Word Examples Nonexamples (Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2nd Edition, p. 69)

A simple, closed plane figure made up of three or more line segments. Frayer Model Closed Simple (curve does not intersect itself) Plane figure (2 dimensional) Made up of three or more line segments No dangling parts A simple, closed plane figure made up of three or more line segments. Polygon Examples Rectangle Triangle Pentagon Hexagon Trapezoid Nonexamples Circle Cone Arrow (Ray) Cube Letter A (Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2nd Edition, p. 69)

Verbal-Visual Word Association Definition (from dictionary and in the student’s own words) Personal Association (they must connect the word to themselves or something they already know in order to learn it) Word Examples (students write the definition in their own words) Non-example (must be relevant, I tell the students to think about the thing that is opposite of the vocabulary term) (Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2nd Edition, p. 69)