Standard 6: Objective 2

Use multiple resources to learn new words by relating them to known words and/or concepts.

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Student Dictionary

Each student will acquire many words throughout the year they are unfamiliar with. As teachers’, it is our job to help them to understand various words so they might increase their vocabulary and knowledge. Making a student dictionary will help them to increase this knowledge.

As the year goes on, each student will be required to keep his or her own dictionary. In the student dictionary the student may write and describe words he or she does not understand. They may retrieve definitions from other dictionaries, parents, siblings, and teachers. The teacher should encourage that each definition has an example and picture as well. This will help the students to understand the concepts. The teacher will periodically check the student dictionary to see if words are spelled correctly and if definitions are correct. When the year is coming to an end, the teacher can then collect all students’ dictionaries and combine them to make one big dictionary for the students to keep with them.

Students with Disabilities

These students might cooperate with the other students in making illustrations of the words. This will enable the students with disabilities to have a complete dictionary with all of the new words as pictures.