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Step 1: Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term.

 

Step 2: Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words.

  • Ask students to record their explanations and descriptions using a recorder or Flip Camera.
  • Use a class blog to post a term and have students comment telling their explanation of the term.
  • Word Map (document) or SMART Notebook
  • Frayer Model SMART Board template

 

Step 3: Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representing the term or phrase.

  • Wordle
  • Play Pictionary on the SMART Board
  • Use SMART Notebook to create graphic representations (ex. Addition)
  • Find a picture on the Internet
  • Vocabulary Log (Word doc) or SMART Notebook file

 

Step 4: Engage students periodically in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms in their notebooks.

 

Step 5: Periodically ask the students to discuss terms with one another.

 

 

 

Step 6: Involve students periodically in games that allow them to play with the terms.

 

 

Other Activities:

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