This is activity is based on a vocabulary strategy developed by Magaret Richek. In it a teacher picks vocabulary words from a story that is going to be read. Then before the story is read students will compose their own writings either together as a class or individually. When writing the stories students must:
Margaret Ann Richek. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher, 58(5), 414-423.
- Introduce words in order, they cannot use a word in the list until the previous one has been used.
- Once a word has been introduced it can be used again.
- Various forms of the word can be used, for example (frightened, frightening, frightful)
- The story needs to make sense with a beginning, middle, and end.
Margaret Ann Richek. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher, 58(5), 414-423.
The word bank in this pdf is editable so you can insert the vocabulary words that you are currently working on. You can't however save the edited version you will have to print it out.
You can also find many more ideas for teaching vocabulary on my Vocabulary Activities page and my Vocabulary Games page.
You can also find many more ideas for teaching vocabulary on my Vocabulary Activities page and my Vocabulary Games page.
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