Sample Vocabulary Lesson

Essential
Question:

What strategies and resources

do I use to figure out unknown

vocabulary?

?

Student

Essential Question:

What can I use to look up

definitions of words?

?

Class Rules

Our Lesson Schedule

01
Mini Lesson

03
Sharing our group work

02
Group work

04

Final question and next

steps

What words do you

remember from our last

unit ?

Prairie

What words do you

remember from our last

unit ?

Flat

Directions

What would

happen if I did

not know

key vocabulary?

What would happen

if I did not know
key vocabulary?

have to look up the

meaning of the words.

not understand

the story.

I would

TIME FOR OUR
MINI-LESSON

Mini-Lesson

What is a

DEFINITION?

Mini-Lesson

What is a

DEFINITION?

A definition is the meaning

of a word

Mini lesson

What can help

us to better

understand key

vocabulary?

Mini-Lesson

What can help us to
better understand key

vocabulary?

Mini-Lesson

Looking up the

meaning of the words.

defining the words.

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- Protect

- Law

- Fair

Key Vocabulary

Words

Mini-Lesson

Time for Group

Work

Group work

Who is in your group?

Group 1
Group 2

Group 3

Group Work

Group work

What should we do next?

1.

Break into groups

2.

Follow your step by step directions.

3.

Raise your hand when you are done.

4.

Remember to follow our class rules.

Group Work

T

Think-Pair-Share

Time to share our work

Law

Take

Rules that govern a

society.

To get something

through force.

Word
Picture
Definition

Sell

To exchange something
with another for money.

Word
Picture
Definition

Final Check for Understanding

What is the definition
of law?

?

Rules that govern
a society.

an area of land
surrounded by

water on all sides.

Final Questions and last steps

Circle the picture
of Island.

?

Final Questions and last steps

What is the definition
of take?

To take something

by force

Without bias or

without allowing a
greater advantage

for one side over the

other.

Final Questions and last steps

Circle the picture
of Take

?

Final Questions and last steps

What is the definition
of sell?

a large number of
people gathered

together.

To exchange
something for

money.

Final Questions and last steps

Circle the picture
of Sell.

?

Final Questions and last steps

What is a

DEFINITION?

Final Questions and last steps

Next Steps

Next Steps

Starting the first

chapter of out new

book.

Final Questions and last steps

Glow and Grow

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