Everyday Words make more sense....
Have you ever noticed that it's the big words that stump your kids on their tests? Of course you have....This is a strategy that I have used in science for years that I got from an excellent resource found from Seeds of Science - http://www.scienceandliteracy.org/.
In fact, if you go on this website to the Teacher Resources section, you can find
over 40 strategies for teaching reading in the content area.
http://www.scienceandliteracy.org/teachersupport/strategyguides
This just happens to be my favorite strategy and it works for all content areas...
Today we reviewed for our social studies test and as we did I noticed a couple of times the students were still asking what certain words meant. So I quickly created a T chart on the board.... I wrote down the word agriculture and said....agriculture is the social studies word but it really just means farming. I was pleasantly surprised when my students said "what about architecture? exchange?" We worked together to come up with a list similar to the one below - with some pictures of course. My good friend Sherrie wears "fancy glasses" to introduce her "fancy words." Kinda fun...but not necessary!
Have you ever noticed that it's the big words that stump your kids on their tests? Of course you have....This is a strategy that I have used in science for years that I got from an excellent resource found from Seeds of Science - http://www.scienceandliteracy.org/.
In fact, if you go on this website to the Teacher Resources section, you can find
over 40 strategies for teaching reading in the content area.
http://www.scienceandliteracy.org/teachersupport/strategyguides
This just happens to be my favorite strategy and it works for all content areas...
Today we reviewed for our social studies test and as we did I noticed a couple of times the students were still asking what certain words meant. So I quickly created a T chart on the board.... I wrote down the word agriculture and said....agriculture is the social studies word but it really just means farming. I was pleasantly surprised when my students said "what about architecture? exchange?" We worked together to come up with a list similar to the one below - with some pictures of course. My good friend Sherrie wears "fancy glasses" to introduce her "fancy words." Kinda fun...but not necessary!
Social
Studies Words
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Everyday
words
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Agriculture
Architecture
Exchange
Origins
Migration
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Farming
Buildings
Trade or to barter
Beginnings
To move to a new place
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