Vocabulary and Concept Development Worksheet.
Imagine that you teach diverse students, including students from five different cultural groups and students who speak three different languages. A third of your class reads well above grade level and a third of your class reads well below grade level. Some students love sports. Another group loves music. Other students are very familiar with art and fashion. One group excels at science and math. Several students support animal rights and environmental conservation efforts. Very few express an interest in the topic that you are currently teaching. The district requires you to align lessons to state standards, but it allows you great flexibility in your selection of text and materials.
Fill in the boxes below with the following information to support learning in this classroom:
• Choose a learning objective from a subject you currently teach.
• Identify state and national standards related to the learning objective you chose.
• Consider strategies for teaching this learning objective to the group of students described:
o Print strategies
o Vocabulary strategies
o Concept strategies
o Graphic organizers
• Identify tradebooks for the students to read that are related to the learning objective you chose.
• Identify additional types of print for the students to read related to the learning objective you chose.
• Analyze the most effective vocabulary, concept strategies, and graphic organizers to pair with the learning objective you chose and print you have selected for the students.
• Identify two different vocabulary or concept-development strategies to use with your diverse students, the print you identified, and the learning objective you have chosen.
• Describe two different graphic organizers to use with your diverse students, the print you identified, and the learning objective you have chosen.
Learning objective
State standards associated with this objective
National standards associated with this objective
Tradebooks associated with this objective
Additional types of print associated with this objective
Vocabulary or concept-development strategies you will use to teach this material
Description of graphic organizers you will use to teach this material
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