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Vocabulary Activity

Activity: This activity is designed for K-2 readers. The teacher will read aloud a book called, “Very Busy Spider” by, Eric Carle. The teacher will use a prepared oat tag paper that has a drawing of a spider web. While reading the story the teacher will put the vocabulary words from the story on the “word web”.

Learner Outcome: The student will learn new vocabulary words from the reading and decode their meaning from within the text.

Explicit Instruction: The teacher will read aloud the story while the students follow along with their own copy of the text. The teacher will stop at chosen vocabulary words to talk about. When coming to an unknown word the teacher will stop and ask the students questions about the word such as; “What is its meaning”. If no one knows the meanings re-read the sentence to the students and ask them; “What in the sentence tells you what the word means?” The teacher keeps re- reading the text stressing on surrounding words to help the students try and figure out the meaning. Afterwards put the new words on the “word web” and display it in the classroom.