Creating a Vocabulary Notebook

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Creating a Vocabulary Notebook

• For Successful College Readers

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Vocabulary Notebook
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Step 1

• Student reads selected text, focusing on
  difficult words.
• Students mark their text by circling unknown or
  difficult words.

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Vocabulary Notebook for Martin Luther King, Jr.s
Letter from Birmingham
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Step 2

• Using semantic clues and context clues, students
  write down their own definition for each word.

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Vocabulary Notebook for Martin Luther King, Jr.s
Letter from Birmingham
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Step 3

• Students look up dictionary definitions and
  record them.
• Select the meaning that is being used in text.

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Vocabulary Notebook for Martin Luther King, Jr.s
Letter from Birmingham
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Step 3

• Students compare their own definition with the
  dictionarys definition by identifying
  similarities and differences between the
  definitions.

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Last Step 4

• Students complete processing activities to help
  them express and deepen their understanding of
  the words.
• To make meanings memorable, students classify
  words, create an analogy and a visual
  representation, and find synonyms for each word.

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Example Processing Activity for unjust
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Letter from Birmingham Jailby Martin Luther
King, Jr.

• http//www.wfu.edu/7Ezulick/341/birmingham.html