The students will learn at least one new vocabulary word each time this lesson is used.

Activity Overview: I use the newspaper in my classroom frequently. Since the newspaper has many large, unfamiliar words to the students I would use this technique to teach vocabulary occasionally. I require that they read at least three articles when we use the newspaper; therefore, they would use this technique on each article. They would be required to pick one word out of each article they are unfamiliar with and apply the strategy to the word.

Steps I would use:

1. Student reads three articles of choice.
2. From each article write at least one word that is unfamiliar
3. Write the actual sentence in which the word appears.
4. Write the word and predicted definition
5. Check the word's meaning in a dictionary or thesaurus and write its definition.
6. Write a sentence that demonstrates the definition of the word.
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7. Draw an image that associates the word with the definition.
8. Each person shares one of his or her words with the class.