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Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
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| Grades | 6 – 8 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Three 50-minute sessions |
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Portland, Oregon |
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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Butcher paper
- Construction paper (for bookmarks)
- Access to computers with Internet and printing capability for every student
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 10 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
This interactive invites students to create original multigenre, multimodal works--one drawing and three written texts--making the tool flexible for multiple writing activities.
PRINTOUTS
- Vocabulary List Guidelines overhead transparency
- Multigenre Glossary Guide
- Sample Multigenre Glossary Entry
- Multigenre Mapper Planning Sheet
WEBSITES
PREPARATION
- Place a long piece of butcher paper on the wall in your classroom to record words on.
- Cut long strips of construction paper for students to use as bookmarks and to list their vocabulary words.
- Make a transparency of the Vocabulary List Guidelines.
- Make copies of the Multigenre Glossary Guide and Sample Multigenre Glossary Entry for every student.
- Arrange for every student to have computer/Internet/printer access for this session and as often as they will need to use the interactive tools.
- Test the Multigenre Mapper Planning Sheet and the Multigenre Mapper tool so you are familiar with them and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.