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Hatchet: Vocabulary Strategy

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Want your class to use critical thinking when discussing vocabulary? Go beyond the dictionary with a vocabulary activity based on Gary Paulsen's Hatchet. Kids write the word in the center of a graphic organizer that also provides places for the definitions, characteristics, examples, and nonexamples.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

hatchet, Vocabulary, gary paulsen, context clues

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the graphic organizer in a language arts packet for any vocabulary list
  • Have kids find the words throughout the novel as they read
  • Assign sentences in a particular grammar form that you are addressing, to include each vocabulary word
  • See if kids can come up with pictures for one of the squares to help them remember the word

Pros

  • Comes with a list of 16 words from the novel, including the passages and page numbers in which you can find each word

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.4 RL.4.4 RL.5.4 L.3.4.a L.4.4.a L.5.4.a RL.6.4 L.6.4.a

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