Interdisciplinary+Strategy

Your Name: Ashley Larson

Strategy name: Prevailing Approach to Interdisciplinary Instruction (Frayer Model)

Student appropriate grade levels: Grades 4,5,6,7,8

Tags: Interdisciplinary Strategy, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Reading, Literacy, Eighth, Fourth, Frayer Model, Graphic Organizer, Pre-reading Strategy, Vocabulary, eight, Science, Math, History, Language Arts

Content areas: Language Arts, Science, History, Math

Type of Strategy: This is a graphic organizer that can be used as a pre-reading strategy and vocabulary.

Types of Students: General, High Achiever, Low Achiever, Behavior Disorder

Strategy Description: The Frayer Model can be used for vocabulary development and can be completed in class. You can also decide to pair or group your students to increase learning. This model has four boxes, which branch off of one main box. The four boxes are the ones that need to be completed. They can be labeled with different jobs or contents. For example, you can label them with words like: examples, non-examples, essential characteristics, and non-essential characteristics. The center box has the vocabulary words contained within it. This vocabulary word(s) can be derived from context of your lesson.

This model can be used as a pre-reading strategy to see how much students know or background knowledge of the vocabulary word(s). The vocabulary word(s) will be word(s) that the students will come across during this lesson. This model also helps the students to compare and contrast what the vocabulary word(s) is defined as. The useful part about this model/strategy is that it can be applied to nearly any content area. The vocabulary words that you choose can be from history, math, language arts, or even science class. You can tie them all in to make it more unified.

Strategy implementation example: //Tangerine// by Edward Bloor


 * This is an example of the Frayer Model.

Example vocabulary words that you can insert in the vocabulary word box could be: If we chose to put the vocabulary word- Blackjack in the center box In the fact box I would put - Hard, heavy, round In the fiction box I would put light, small, square In the example box I would put words like to hit someone with, a card game In the non-examples box I would put- a lawnmower, bowling.
 * Frenzied (Language Arts)
 * Quonset (History)
 * Pantomiming (Language Arts)
 * Calisthenics (Language Arts)
 * Blackjack (History)
 * Muck Fires (Science & Math)