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Photocopy word list onto sets of coloured paper.
Laminate each set and cut
up.
Put students into groups of three or four. Give each group a set of words.
Have the students read the words and then put the words into groups or
categories. You may need to give the students two of three categories to get
them started.
They can use words provided as headings for each category or they may wish
to come up with their own headings. Try to avoid telling the students the
meanings for words, they can put the words they don't know into an 'unknown'
category.
Once they have categorised the words give them poster paper and markers and
have the students arrange the words on paper. Alternatively, they could mind
map the word categories.
From their word lists students can
- Write a story using all the words.
- Write paragraphs describing and/or explaining.
- Write questions (Whitehead, 1992, 19-21).
- Complete a KTD - what we know, what we think we know, what
we don't know. (Cubitt et al, 1999, 12).
Alternative: Vocabulary Deductions Strategy - in Carryer (1991, p17)
The Challenge Strategy - in Whitehead (1992,p 36)
Student Exemplar
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under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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