Lesson Plan
Dictionaries & Definitions
In this lesson, students will practice defining words by making their own vocabulary cards. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Mini Dictionaries lesson plan.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to define vocabulary words.
Language
Students will be able to define vocabulary in a sentence level context using sentence frames and visual support.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Hold up the dictionary.
- Randomly read a word and its definition. Choose a word familiar to students to read aloud with its definition.
- Ask students to turn to a partner and share what they think a dictionary is.