H. Use vocabulary knowledge in the content areas (AL COS)

Einstein Club
Help motivate students to learn vocabulary words in the various content areas.

Exploring Geometric Shapes
Students will identify geometric shapes using appropriate vocabulary during class discussion.
 

The Ten Best Vocabulary Learning Tips:  Ten tips for teaching vocabulary that you can adapt for use in your classroom .

Quiz Hub:  This interactive quiz asks students to match A-B vocabulary words to their correct definitions.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.
 

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