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Vocabulary in Context: Wilderness Survival Lesson PlanVocabulary in Context: Wilderness Survival Lesson Plan
Publisher
Prestwick House
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Grade
7th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
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Guided Practice
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Year
2016
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Vocabulary in Context: Wilderness Survival

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Do you have what it takes to survive in the wilderness? A high-interest reading passage offers practical advice while incorporating vocabulary practice. Follow-up worksheets focus on skills such as defining words, making inferences, and breaking up words into roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

academic vocabulary, context clues, reading comprehension

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Read the passage twice, defining the words in bold the second time
  • Rewrite the passage as a class by replacing vocabulary words with relevant synonyms

Classroom Considerations

  • Save paper by having students read passage digitally

Pros

  • Offers opportunities for guided and independent practice
  • Teaches vocabulary words in the context of a larger passage

Cons

  • Heavy on traditional vocabulary worksheets

Common Core

L.7.4.a L.7.4.d L.8.4.a L.8.4.d

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