Sea inteligente con su vocabulario con Wordly Wise, séptimo grado, primera parte

In this small group learning setting, the students will greatly improve their reading comprehension by increasing their vocabulary base by learning the vocabulary words from Wordly Wise 3000 Grade seven, part one. This twenty-week course is the teaching of the first half of the grade seven book. EDITION FOUR   There are fifteen words in each of the twenty lessons in the book. Each week will cover the first of eaach lesson.  The words will be explained by the teacher, using colorful and interesting slides with an example sentence. Each word has a colorful slide to help students understand the meaning of the word.   A discussion of each word will be given, including the different parts of speech of each word.  Practice will be provided by using five approaches: finding the meaning using whatever part of speech, using context clues to find just the right word in the sentence, applying the meaning of the word, using the correct form of the word, then reading a narrative using the fifteen words in the lesson.  Each lesson includes a nonfiction narrative of high interest.  My learning style is informal with lots of student interaction. We end day two of the lesson with an exciting Kahoot quiz!  

Multi-day course: Weekly class routine: Two days per week

Day One of each week:
* Discuss each of the 15 vocabulary words using the colorful accompanying slide.  
* Practice saying the word together.  The teacher will show a picture of the word and discuss its part of speech and usage. 
* Modeling the word in several sentences so students can hear the word using in context.  
*Enrichment provided by higher-level questioning.
* Complete activities A and B  in the workbook together in class
* Outside of class before day two of the week, students will 
    1.  Complete activities C and D
    2.  Read the weekly story and complete the 15 comprehension questions by day two of the week.  

Day Two of the Lesson:
* The correct answers for activities A and B will be given, along with a discussion of the correct answers.
* The reading passage for the week will be read.  The topic for the weekly stories are listed below. Students are invited to read aloud or the teacher will read the passage.
* The comprehension questions will be discussed as a group activity each week.
* A Kahoot quiz will be given to check the students' understanding of the words.
*Every four lessons, the students enjoy a crossword puzzle using the words from those lessons.


Each week will follow the same schedule.  
There are 20 lessons in the book.  This multi-day course will cover the FIRST half of the book and last for twenty weeks.
The reading passages include the following subject matter for the twenty weeks:

Week one:  	The Trail of Tears
Week two:  	The Last Dodo
Week three: 	Pandora's Box
Week four: 	 Mount Vernon
Week five:  	Harvest of Shame:The story of immigrant farmworkers
Week six:  	Out of her League?: Pam Postema, major-league umpire
Week seven: 	The Midas Touch
Week eight: 	The Triangle Fire
Week nine:     The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Week ten: 	Danger: Manatees at Play