Teacher Help

[DisneyFan06]

Does anyone have any good ideas for a vocabulary lesson for second graders after reading Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel?

I need a lesson for ESOL students and one for non-ESOL students.

Any Ideas?

 

[sha_lyn]

I did a search for Frog and Toad are Friends vocabulary and came up with several hits


http://www.lexile.com/PowerV/Frog and Toad are Friends_AS.pdf ... this links seems to be the answers to the work sheets. The worksheets are probably somewhere on the same site

I love this site
http://www.edhelper.com/books/Frog_and_Toad_Are_Friends.htm

 

[sha_lyn]

I forgot that second link is a paid site
heres another site you can check
http://www.abcteach.com/
I found work sheets for the Magic Tree House book we are reading

 

[paigevz]

I don't remember what words are in that book, but here are some general vocabulary activities:

Fold a large manila paper in half, fourths, eighths, sixteenths (as many words as you need)........in each square write a vocabulary word and draw a picture for it.

Freyer model: We do this with index cards, but you'll want a larger paper probably...........we fold the index card (hamburger) in half, then again, then fold down the corner that "doesn't have many pieces".......in other words, is where all the folds are, not the edges. It leaves a diamond in the middle. You may rather have them just draw a diamond in the middle of a paper with a stencil or something. You could call them "diamond" words! Anyway, the word goes in the middle, a simple definition or sentence in the top left quadrant, a picture in the top right, an example in the bottom left and a non-example in the bottom right. For example, we did this today for rural.......in the diamond "rural", top left "in the country", top right a picture of a farm, bottom left "farm", bottom right, "city".

Flip model. Fold each edge of a paper in towards the middle to make a center opening. Cut a slit horizontally in each edge piece to make flaps. You make a lift-the-flap vocabulary page. Write the word on each flap, then underneath the flap you can cut and paste an example. If you find clip art for each word, you can copy them off for each kid to do this, even have the flap books done with the words written ahead of time and make it a matching activity.

Will any of those work for you?

 

[paigevz]

I need a lesson for ESOL students and one for non-ESOL students.

As far as that goes, I use the same strategies with my non-ESLs as with my ESLs..........since more than half my class is ESL!

 

[#1hockeymom]

Paige, I love your ideas! I will be using them with our new reading curriculum.

 

[paigevz]

Thanks.......we're actually trying to come up with a few more so we have a good variety so the kids don't get bored. Vocabulary and language are the biggest challenges our kids tend to have academically. We are working on developing a way of using a bubble map..............I am supposed to brainstorm this "in the fire" as it were, next week.

 

[LadyyRedd]

Maybe you could do something on why "Frog" and "Toad" are capitalized in the book when you would not normally capitalize the words frog and toad. (yes, I know that's really more grammar/punctuation than vocab)

Kimya