Kristen Sadaly The Book Thief March 31, 2011 Robust Vocabulary Instruction Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Day 2 activities Day 3 image are considered activities are an receptive opportunity for because students to students have relate the had little vocabulary word exposure to or to a concrete practice with the image words, and therefore, need to receive more teacher led instruction. Students complete vocabulary preassessment in advance of the teacher introducing the words. Introduce the words using student friendly explanations; each word is written on a notecard or sentence strip and is placed in the pocket chart. These words are displayed all week. Day 4 activities are generative because students have had more exposure to and practice with the words, and can therefore work more independently to generate examples and definitions more readily. Day 4 also includes a review. Students complete an assessment each Friday.
Name: Vocabulary Pre assessment Sentence completion: Complete the sentences using the words from the word bank. Word Bank decrepit admonish stupendous bewildered evade immaculate inevitable innocuously ludicrous trepidation 1. She bit her tongue, not wanting to the children in public for their bad behavior. 2. She cleaned for hours so her home would be by the time her guests arrived. 3. I looked down at the swimming pool with as I stood quivered on the high dive. 4. The idea that we could water ski by standing on the lids of trashcans was totally! 5. I was by the complicated nature of encrypted secret code. 6. It is that Tuesday will always come after Monday. 7. The building was falling down and covered with cobwebs. 8. To stay in the game of dodge ball, players must being hit by the ball. 9. The architect designed a hotel with twenty different floors, fifteen restaurants, and seven swimming pools! 10. A gentle bunny hopped through the meadow.
Day 1: Introduce Words (with the following student friendly definitions + the sentence where the word occurs in the book) 1. decrepit: When something is decrepit it is old and in bad condition; falling apart. page 104: In the opinion of Hans Junior, his father was a part of an old, decrepit Germany one that allowed everyone else to take a proverbial ride while its own people suffered. 2. admonish: When you admonish someone you scold them or tell them meanly that they have done something wrong. page 106: She didn t admonish him at all, which, as you know, was highly unusual. Perhaps she decided he was injured enough, having been labeled a coward by his only son. 3. stupendous: If something is stupendous it is surprisingly large or enormous. page 122: In the previous moments of stupendous danger, Papa had said goodbye to Wolfgang Edel and was ready to accompany Liesel home. 4. bewildered: If you are bewildered you are very confused or unsure of what to do. page 126: Papa was bewildered. Why would I? 5. evade: If you evade something you avoid or escape it. page 131: Was there any way, any way at all, for her to evade this? 6. immaculate: If something is immaculate it is perfectly clean. page 134: Each wall was armed with overwhelmed, yet immaculate shelving. 7. inevitable: If something is inevitable it is definitely going to happen, you cannot avoid it. page 150: It was inevitable. 8. innocuously: If something is done innocuously it is done harmlessly, it does not put anyone in danger. page 182: Innocuously, a man walked past. 9. ludicrous: If something is ludicrous it is unreasonable, even foolish. page 185: The very idea of it was ludicrous, but he accepted it nonetheless. 10.trepidation: If something is done with trepidation, it is done with fear or nervousness. page 214: With trepidation, the sheets and cans moved and the light was passed out, exchanging hands.
Days 2: Receptive activity Activity Day 2 Example/Non Example Ask students the following questions. For each response ask the student to explain their thinking. *Which could be described as decrepit: an old abandoned ship or a newly renovated school? *Which student would a teacher admonish: a student who always completes assignments on time or a student who refuses to complete assignments? *Which sight would be described as stupendous: the Grand Canyon or a small pebble? *Which would cause someone to become bewildered: a complex algebraic equation or counting to ten? *Which would you try to evade: an adorable puppy or an angry wasp? *Which would you describe as immaculate: a locker containing gym socks and old milk or a well organized locker? *Which event is inevitable: seeing a shooting star every night or the sun setting each night? *Which animal is behaving innocuously: a hissing rattlesnake or a purring kitten? *Which activity could be described as ludicrous: golfing in a lightening storm or swimming on a sunny day? *Which would cause you to have trepidation: a haunted house or a garden tea party?
Days 3: Image activity *All images were found using Safe Search on Google Images 1. Word: decrepit 2. Word: admonish
3. Word: stupendous 4. Word: bewildered 5. Word: evade
6. Word: immaculate 7. Word: inevitable 8. Word: innocuously
9. Word: ludicrous 10. Word: trepidation
Day 4: Review and generative activity Review Day True or False 4 Ten students will have index cards taped to the bottom of their chairs. On each index card will be a statement. Students will work with a partner (a student without an index card) to determine if the statement on their card is true or false. Students will then pose their statement to the rest of the class, asking their classmates to use the thumbs up signal for true and the thumbs down signal for false. The pair of students presenting the statement must explain why the statement is either true or false. 1. A well kept home is decrepit. (F) 2. A parent would admonish a child for stealing. (T) 3. People ignore a stupendous sight. (F) 4. People who are bewildered know exactly what to do. (F) 5. A student might try to evade a school bully. (T) 6. A kitchen with dirty dishes and spilled spaghetti sauce is immaculate. (F) 7. It is inevitable that our football team will be undefeated. (F) 8. A sweet puppy wags his tail innocuously. (T) 9. It is ludicrous to wrestle with an alligator! (T) 10. Someone with lots of trepidation would be smiling with excitement! (F) Activity Three Things That Are Divide the class into five small groups. Each group will be given two task cards. Each task card will have one vocabulary word written on one side. On the other side, students will be responsible for generating three examples of things that are associated with the term. At the conclusion of the activity students will share and discuss their things that are with their classmates. three things that are decrepit three things to admonish three things that are stupendous three things that would make us bewildered three things to evade three things that are immaculate three things that are inevitable three things that behave innocuously three things that are ludicrous three things that would cause us to have trepidation
Name: Vocabulary Post Assessment Sentence completion: Complete the sentences using the words from the word bank. You will not use all of the words in the word bank. Word Bank decrepit admonish stupendous bewildered evade immaculate inevitable innocuously ludicrous trepidation 1. The police officer had to the young man who stole from the grocery store. 2. I was by the complicated map. I thought I would never find my way! 3. My mom told me I could play outside once my room was. 4. The idea of swimming with a school of jellyfish is simply! 5. I was filled with as I approached the podium to give my speech in front of the entire school. True or False? Write true or false for each statement below. 6. Something stupendous is small and unimpressive. 7. A fire would cause a house to become decrepit. 8. It would be wise to evade a poisonous snake. 9. It is inevitable that you will win the lottery one day. 10. A man walking innocuously is posing a large threat.
Complete the following sentences to show that you understand each underlined word. 11. As I stood at the front door of the decrepit house. 12. My teacher would admonish me if. 13. Something stupendous I have seen is. 14. An immaculate kitchen is. 15. I walked innocuously because.. Word associations 16. What is something you want to evade? 17. What is something you think is ludicrous? 18. What is something that is inevitable? 19. What is something that causes you to be bewildered? 20. What is something that would cause you to have trepidation?