Word+Links

 **Your Name:** Amy Lacio #15 **Strategy name**: Word Links


 * Grade Level**: 5,6,7,8


 * Tags**: 5, 6, 7, 8, vocabulary, during reading, after reading.


 * Content Areas**: Social Studies, Science, Math, Technology, English, Reading, Art, Drama, Music.


 * Type of Strategy**: During reading, after reading, vocabulary


 * Types of Students**: general, ESL, high-achievers, low-achievers

Teacher or students select vocabulary words that are important in the text. The teacher writes each word that is chosen on a large index car or 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper- one for each student in he class. Make sure there is one word per student. Distribute the word cards randomly between the students, but if need be, less complex words can be given to certain students that would suit them. Give the students a few minutes to review in their notes or in the text what their word means. Next, have the student walk around the room and find a partner whose word can be linked to theirs in some way. Each student may only have one partner, but if there are an odd number of students in the class, there can be a group of three. After pairs shave been found, the teacher will ask the students to prepare an explanation for the class that will answer these questions: What do the words mean? What do they have to do with each other? How do they go together? The students then make a circle and each pair displays their cards, say their words, and explain the words' meanings and relationship. When everyone has shared, the teacher asks the students to make a new link with someone else.
 * Strategy Description**:

A Science teacher teaching a unit on cells can use this list of words: //cell, tissue, organ, organism, ecosystem, prokaryotic, eukaryotic//. A student with the word //Tissue// might link up with a student that has the word //Organ//. The students may say, "A //Tissue// is a group of cells that work together, and an //organ// is made up of tissues working together. These words go together because organs wouldn't exist without tissues."
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