Illustration of Uses a variety of strategies to understand unfamiliar vocabulary found in narrative text, technical reading, and literary text in the ICLE's Rigor and Relevance Framework
Quadrant C

Students develop Frayer-like models of chosen vocabulary words (word definition, characteristics, synonyms, antonyms). Students keep vocabulary journal to record learned words.

 Quadrant D

Students select a number of instant messaging (IM) conversation from their files. After studying these files, they identify often-used abbreviations for words and phrases. Students create a dictionary of IM lingo and share it with someone who is new to IMing.
Quadrant A

Students review and practice vocabulary decoding skills:

  • Prefix/suffix identification and definitions
  • Root word identification and definitions
  • Defining words from context of sentence

 Quadrant B

Students bring in passages from textbooks of other classes (science, math, social studies, art, etc.) and identify difficult vocabulary words. Students use decoding skills described in Quadrant A activity to attempt to understand words' meanings.