Grandfather Tang's Story

I gathered student written inventories and held personal interviews and conversations with students and their families in order to help my students grow and mature in their vocabulary usage. This information told me they value who they are and what motivates them so I could design innovative practices and utilize proven methods of vocabulary instruction that promote learning for all my students.

For this activity you will read a special kind of story. Some of the words in the story have been replaced with a group of three words. You are to decide, which word in each group

To ensure that the students clearly grasp the theme of the previous day’s story, the students and the teacher went over this. Once the teacher had a clear understanding that the students can use character development to identify the theme of a story, she placed the students into three different groups and gave them

The teacher shows an Aboriginal painting and questions students to describe it mathematically and teaches about symmetry, shapes, angles, patterns, numbers, addition, subtraction and division found from the painting.

After learning about Frank Lloyd Wright we will then discuss the artwork as a class and talk about the shapes that we can identify in the artwork. We will

If time, ask students to come up with their own sentences using some of these vocabulary words.

While reading all these stories that we either liked or disliked, we also had to list and define words we were not familiar with. I felt it was beneficial for us to define unfamiliar words because in the past I didn’t always take the time to look up the meaning of words I wasn’t familiar with. This was beneficial to me because it helped to broaden my

-The main idea of this story should follow them after this lesson is over. Believe in yourself, no matter what challenges you face. The learners will want to access their prior knowledge whenever an issue arises similar to the one in the story.

Students will illustrate a picture to match their stories. Illustrations will incorporate accurate geometry shapes and meet the “good,” criteria on the assessment rubric.

Language Arts: Use the vocabulary workbook (Advanced Vocabulary) to go over and define this week’s words with the whole class. Have students complete Exercises: 1, 3, and 4 independently. When students finish they can work on reading their Accelerated Reading (AR) book. They should all have brought it to class. If they didn’t pleas make a note of their name and have them pick a book off of the bookshelf at the back of the room to read for the class period.

B1a. While in small groups the students will identify quadrilaterals in the painting. They will then create their own work of art to display their knowledge of the characteristics of a quadrilateral. This activity will fulfill both the math standard and art standard and using

This video is discussing a technique you can use when teaching the vocabulary pillar of reading. The teacher is having her three students’ create a Word Snapshot. The Word Snapshot is a graphic organizer that requires the students to choose a new vocabulary word and create a picture and sentence using the word. The Word Snapshot also has the students identify synonym and antonym for the vocabulary word as well as connections. For these particular students they were only required to create a sentence and picture, but if they wanted to push themselves a little bit further they could find a synonym and antonym for the word. It was also great that the teacher had an example of a Word Snapshot she created since it allowed for the students to see

The expectations of the lessons was to let children identify what the story is mainly about it and the main idea. The teacher play a game focusing in super powers to identify tricky words. The students will write or draw the main idea.

Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons gives students in introduction about the basic geometric shapes and topics. The book explains triangles, angles, and polygons using food, which everyone will love. The book gives students fun ways to remember the differences between scalene and equilateral triangles. The different number of sides a polygon can have are also explained.

Tomiak, Julia. "What The Kite Runner Can Teach." Diary of a Word Nerd. Julia Tomiak, 05 Oct. 2012. Web. 24 May