We are reading The Outsiders in my 7th grade reading class. I wrote the 10 words for chapters 9 and 10 on the board and told them to put them in their notebooks with space for definitions.
I then told the kids to skim the chapters until they found one of the words and let me know. When someone found a word they had to read the sentence where it was and tell what was going on at that point.
I then asked the class what they thought the word meant in the context of the story. With very little help from me they were able to get pretty good definitions/descriptions of the words.
And they were proud of themselves.
Great activity! How can you share this with other faculty?
ReplyDeleteGrade level meetings would be one way. Marsha and I have been asked to redeliver information from the CALC packet at next week's grade levels.
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