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Type of Literacy Strategy:
Reading Comprehension (during reading and post-reading)
Reading Level:
All Secondary Reading Levels; Based on how the vocab triangle is used in the class, students at lower reading levels or ELs might need more teacher attention or a differentiated sheet with different vocab terms or a definition bank that they would need to match words with definitions instead of knowing all definitions.
Prep Time:
Depends on depth of use. 5-10minutes for prep of vocab words to use
Vocab Triangles in Use -
- Create a hand out (or have done this activity before so that students would know how to create their own chart) and give to all students
- Have students work individually or in pairs to come up with definitions for each vocab word.
- Then have students write a full sentence that links each vocab word with another
- Then have a final sentence created in a pair of students that uses all three terms.
- Have students share final sentences out loud.
How to Fit into a Social Studies Classroom:
This strategy helps link words and their significance together. Can use this as an activity to gauge knowledge and understanding of terms as well as a precursor to a final assessment. On a summative assessment, the teacher could give three word banks (each with five vocab words or concepts), and ask students to write a paragraph that is factual and uses all but one of the words. So the triangle would helps students learn to not just memorize vocab but comprehend the definition and critically think to connect multiple terms together.
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