Subject: Vocabulary Acquisition

(Grade level/Content) 6th Grade Reading

Georgia Performance Standards

SS6RC1 Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by: a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas
Read a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books per year from a variety of subject disciplines and participate in discussions
related to curricular learning in all areas.
Read both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse.
Read technical texts related to various subject areas. b. Discussing books Discuss messages and themes from books in all subject
areas.
Respond to a variety of texts in multiple modes of discourse.
Relate messages and themes from one subject area to messages and themes in another area.
Evaluate the merit of texts in every subject discipline. Examine authors purpose in writing.
Recognize the features of disciplinary texts. c. Building vocabulary knowledge
Demonstrate an understanding of contextual vocabulary in various subjects.
Use content vocabulary in writing and speaking.
Explore understanding of new words found in subject area texts. d. Establishing context Explore life experiences related to subject
area content.
Discuss in both writing and speaking how certain words are subject area related.
Determine strategies for finding content and contextual meaning for unknown words.

Common Core Standards

21st Century Learner
Learning Goal(s): Vocabulary Acquisition
(What do you want them to know and/or do?)

Identify and use context clues

Extend the meaning of new vocabulary
Use inference to develop comprehension

Essential Question:

How do readers prior knowledge assist them with comprehension?

How do context clues affect ones reading comprehension?
What is the difference between context clues and inference?

Activate Learning:

Wordle
Graphic Organizer
Teaching Strategies and Procedure:

Day 1: Create Wordlist

Opening: Using the graphic organizer provided, students will explain what they already know about inference and context clues. The
teacher will introduce the novel, Hoops by Walter Dean Myers. The teacher will do a read aloud for ten minutes. The teacher will
identify and explain inference and context clues during the read aloud.
Work Session: Students will use the vocabulary acquisition handout to record and words from the story that they do not know or
understand. Students will go to yourdictionary.com to define the unknown words and to create a wordlist.
Closing: Think Pair Share- share one new vocabulary word from wordlist.

Day 2: Create Wordle

Opening: Teacher will facilitate book chapter review. Students will continue to add to their new word vocabulary list. The teacher
will facilitate a round robin read aloud among 3-5 students and discuss the reading. The teacher will demonstrate how to create a
cloud wordle.
Work Session: Students will access their wordlist from yourdictionary.com and select one word to use for this activity. From the
word they selected, click on the thesaurus tab and find 5-8 words that mean the same as the word the selected from their word list.
Using the index card provided, write the original word and its synonyms on the index card. Go to wordle.com and create a cloud
Wordle using one vocabulary word from new word list on yourdictionary.com
Closing: Summarize chapter 1 of Hoops on KidBlog
Day 3: Post to Padlet

Opening: The teacher will demonstrate how to use Padlet.com

Work Session: Student will locate the Padlet, Hoops Vocabulary Builder. Using their vocabulary acquisition sheet or their wordlist
from yourdictionary.com, select, highlight, underline or circle three new words to use for this activity. Post the word, its definition
and page number (where the word can be found in the book) to the padlet.
Closing: Vote on next novel to read: ActivVotes

Differentiation
Remember to include a differentiation component: Use iReady test data to determine:

Lexile Levels above grade level stretchband: create a word list of new terms
Lexile Levels within grade level stretchband: create and define new terms
Lexile Levels below grade level stretchband: create a wordlist, cloud wordle of one new term and post to padlet

Technology use by Students:

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD/T)

HP Mobile Laptop Cart
Resources

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

Big6 Skills
yourdictionary.com
Wordle
Padlet
KidBlog
Galileo
MLA Writing

New Learning/Acquisition Lesson Plan