![]() ![]() If you're having students make these, have them cut off the bottom strip. There is one flap for each word and another flap next to it for the definition. Four little lines are snipped on each fold, which is why my students refer to these as “ Vocabulary Flaps”. The paper is folded vertically into a gatefold and a bottom strip is cut off (so the page will fit in the notebook). They're versatile forms to have on hand.Īnother component of our weekly Jargon Journal routine is completing our Vocabulary Flap. These may be useful in place of the Fist-to-Five activity or you may use them as a vocabulary pretest before starting a science unit or to see which Jargon Journal words are remembered from November. ![]() Using these forms not only preserves privacy, but gives you a written record of student thinking. In our Tools for Vocabulary Instruction pack we also provide some paper self-assessments. Because some kids may not be comfortable publishing their lack of knowledge to their peers, I encourage everyone to keep their Fist-to-Five rating right in front of their chests as opposed to waved in the air. I'm also fueling a curiosity to learn more. Even if the word is entirely new to them, they're getting the validation of seeing that other kids may not know the word either. Self-assessment is an important piece in our vocabulary work, not just because I'm curious about my students' word knowledge, but because it gets the kids thinking about their connection to each word. ![]() ![]() These steps are repeated for the remaining 3 words. Then I show the book and we predict how that word will be used in the story. After the kids rate the word, I share a kid friendly definition (or have one of the kids who showed 5 fingers share what they think). I hang the posters on the board and display one of our vocab words. I use these posters each week with our Jargon Journals. If you see mostly 4 and 5 fingers, this is one most students know. If you see a bunch of 1,2,3 fingers, you know this is a word unfamiliar to your students. If a child is unfamiliar with the vocabulary word, he would display a fist (0 fingers) to match “I've never heard the word before.” If a child is very comfortable with this word and used it in a story last week, she would show all 5 fingers. Students rate their knowledge of words on a scale from “I've never heard this word before” to “I can tell you everything about this word.” The students relay their rating by showing a certain number of fingers. To quickly assess your students' depth of vocabulary knowledge about a set of words, we've added our take on the Fist-to-Five activity. By 1966, the one-room country school had become a thing of the past.We're back with a bundle of vocabulary resources to help you advance the lexicons of your burgeoning wordophiles! Although some of these pieces were designed to be used in connection with our Jargon Journal program, they can easily be adapted for other vocabulary activities. School districts consolidated, pooling their resources to provide more teachers, broader curriculum, and opportunity for extracurricular activities. Equipped with little more than a blackboard and a few textbooks, teachers passed on to their pupils cultural values along with a sound knowledge of the three Rs.īy the turn of the century, the population began to shift to the cities and country schools began to lose students and tax support. She had to be a nurse, janitor, musician, philosopher, peacemaker, wrangler, fire stoker, baseball player, professor, and poet for less than $50 a month. The school teacher, sometimes slightly older than her pupils, was a renaissance individual. When they arrived on their first day of school they may have only known how to speak a foreign language but they soon learned how to speak, read, spell, and write English. They got to school on foot, on horseback, or in a wagon. The children who attended ranged in age from five to 21 and endured dust storms, prairie fires, and cattle drives swirling past the school house in order to get an eighth grade education. They were called names like Prairie Flower, Buzzard Roost, and Good Intent. For a hundred years, white frame or native stone one-room schoolhouses dotted the section corners across Kansas. ![]()
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