1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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)

7. 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)