Vocabulary Instruction

Teach-Teach- Trade Strategy Tier 3 Vocabulary- Religious Studies

For: READ 6602Americka Missick

Jesus’ Life Before his Ministry

Grade: 7Subject: Religious Studies

Circumcision Tempt Baptism Conscience

Words

Circumcision- The removal of the foreskin of

the penis. Tempt- To entice or to persuade someone to

do evil. Baptism- An outward expression of an inward

conversion (change). Conscience- a persons moral sense of right

and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour.

Words with Definitions

Teach-Teach-Trade

A modified version of the teach-teach-trade

strategy that is presented by Hinchman and Sheridan-Thomas (2014) is used for this lesson. The part where the students would draw a picture about the word was omitted.

That part of the strategy would be difficult because the students may have a difficulty drawing an image for circumcision.

I would try allowing the students to draw a picture with one of my smaller classes to see what they would come up with.

The four words will be written on the dry erase

board and the teacher would pronounce each word.

The students would then be placed in groups and be asked to choose a word card with one of the words written on it.

Each group would have to define the word and write a topic studied in which the word was used.

Teach-Teach-Trade

I would check the students work and check for

inaccuracies before they engage in the teach-teach and sharing of the words and definitions.

They would be allowed to use their dictionaries or context clues (which will be reviewed) to help them find the definitions of the words.

After their definitions are checked and found

to be correct, the students would collaborate to write two sentences using the word on their card.

The teacher would walk around the room and check the questions to ensure that they are written properly.

One person in each group would read the word,

its meaning, and the sentences to the group. Group members would also be given the opportunity to create additional sentences on another sheet of paper. (Time given for this section five minutes.)

The students would trade their cards with the other groups, choose a different group member to read the word, its meaning, and the sentences.

The students would continue the teach, teach, trade until each word is presented to each group.

Strategies for Vocabulary Development By Dr. Kate Kinsella, Dr. Colleen Shea-Stump, and Dr.

Kevin Feldman http://

www.phschool.com/eteach/language_arts/2002_03/essay.html

The strategies presented on this site can help me with the following: 1. Allow the students to analyse and think critically

about concepts. 2. Gear vocabulary instruction toward collaborative work. 3. Give me assessment ideas for vocabulary words.

Helpful Websites

http://

www.phschool.com/eteach/language_arts/2002_03/essay.html

Essential Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary is the name of the above PDF site.

In this document you would find a variety of differentiated instructional strategies to teach tier three vocabulary.

There is even an explanation of differentiated instruction to teach vocabulary strategies to ELLs.

When to use each strategy, strategy modifications, and an example of how to use the strategies with step by step instructions is presented in the document as well.

Helpful Websites

Hinchman, K. A., & Sheridan-Thomas, H. K. (Eds.).

(2014). Best practices in adolescent literacy

instruction (2nd ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

All images taken from Google Images.

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