Strategy 3: Frayer Model
What is the instructional strategy?
The instructional strategy I am using is a Frayer Model. This will assist students as they are comprehending a specific vocabulary word. The Frayer Model helps students to categorize words in order to develop their comprehension of the topic. This guide will help my students understand the words segregation or freedom before and after reading pages 813-815 in their Creating America textbook. (Doty, Cameron & Barton, 2003).
Why does the strategy work?
My student’s particularly struggle with vocabulary words in the content area. Therefore using a Frayer model will help them to zoom in on the word segregation or the word freedom. This will give my students the opportunity to not only know the meaning of these important words, but to understand how it is related to their own lives and gives them an opportunity to really understand the meaning of the word, not just copying down the definition.
How does it work?
1. Students will choose to use the word segregation or the word freedom.
2. They will then find the definition of the word they chose and begin to fill in their Frayer Model.
3. Next students will read the text passage for the opportunity to see the word in context.
4. After they will fill in the characteristics of their word, examples of the word to their own life and non-examples to their own life.
5. Lastly students will share their Frayer Model with other classmates.
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