Curated OER
Column notes - math vocabulary
In this math vocabulary activity, students fill in a column notes sheet with the definition and example of math vocabulary words. Students complete this for 26 words.
Other
Interacting Texts Directed Activities Related to Texts (Darts)
Want to improve your students' reading skills? This is a good place to find the types of directed activities, using a definition text, reconstruction/analysis activities, and advantages of using DARTs.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Examples
This lesson focuses on using examples to increase audience understanding of your speech including three types of examples: brief, extended, and hypothetical and how to use examples to help your audience understand the message.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Definitions
This handout focuses on writing definitions including the three parts: term, class, and differentiating characteristics. It also explains when you need to use definitions and some additional tips for writing definitions.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Mentor Sentences
This strategy helps students read complex, grade-level texts and improve their language skills, including understanding and using grade-level vocabulary and syntax.
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Concept of Definition Map
Sometimes teaching students about creating definitions is difficult because they do not understand about multiple meanings or depth in meaning. This is a chance to teach students, using the concept map included, how to create definitions...