Math
Dictoglos. This is a strategy to help students learn vocabulary. It could also be used as a formative assessment. Below the explanation is a graphic organizer I used to teach a geometry unit in Strategies in Comprehension. The terms I was trying to teach my class were point, line, plan, parallel, perpendicular, and intersect. For this strategy, you will need the following:
Procedure
- a short text explaining vocabulary terms for a lesson or unit (no more than 175 words).
- a graphic organizer (a box split into four parts).
Procedure
- Give the students the graphic organizer and explain that you will be reading a text about their lesson twice. They are to write down all the information they hear you say as best they can in the top left corner.
- Then, have the students form groups. Have them compare what they wrote. Have students add words and phrases they get from their group members in the top right corner.
- Next, have the group work together to try to create the exact text they heard in the bottom left corner of the box. You could turn this into a competition if you wanted by awarding a prize to the group that has the text closest to what you said.
- Finally, let the class have copies of the original to compare to their group versions. Have students add anything they missed in the bottom right corner.
At any point in the process, you can open the class up to discussions about what they wrote down and why they thought those items were important, you could ask them about the differences between what they copied and the original and what they might need to spend more time on because they missed, etc.
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