Roll of Thunder Vocab Task

If I did a vocabulary lesson on this first chapter, I would break students up into small groups and have them pick out ten words throughout the chapter that they did not know. I would then have the students look up in a dictionary the meaning of those words. After that, I would have them write ten new sentences using each of the ten new words that they found. Then, we would popcorn around the room until we learned every word from every group and what it meant. After that, I would collect all of the student’s papers and type up a list of the new words that they did not know and hand them out to the students. If I felt it necessary, I would have the students learn the words for a vocabulary test that we would take and keep adding to throughout the book. This would only be necessary if they were choosing common words that they should know or would need to know later in life. Vocabulary is always good to learn!