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Million Dollar
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Who wants to be a million dollar
winner?
Vocabulary instruction with built in
motivation.
Why new words in a new way?
Vocabulary instruction has been around for
a long time but if students are to make
meaning
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Questions, reasons, &
Have you
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Making Choices
examples
Prefixes &
Suffixes
Making
Inferences
Million Dollar Words
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Instructional
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9Introduce
Introduce three new words each week
9Provide the students with a dictionary
definition
9Create a student friendly definition (first
connection)
9Discuss the words in a meaningful way
* Making Choices
* Have you Ever…
*Q
Questions,
estions Reasons and E
Examples
amples
admire
ad●mire~To approve of or
respectt
Derivatives~admires,
admiring admired
admiring,
admired, admirer
admirer,
admirable
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Making Choices
Directions: I’ll sayy some things.
g If yyou could
admire them, say “admire”; if not, say “dislike”.
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_____the winners of the relay race
_____fixing a pipe under the sink
_____a poor sport
_____a criminal
_____your teacher
h
“Questions, Reasons, and Examples”
admire
Directions:
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Reasons
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and
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.Write responses to Reasons & Examples.
Question:
Who do you admire as a hero?
Reason:
Why you admire this person?
Examples:
What are some examples of things you admire
about this person?
Have You Ever . . .
Directions:
.Select one of the new vocabulary words.
.Think about a time that you:
met someone that you admired
offered advice
had to manage your money better
had to be responsible for your actions
.Turn
Turn and talk to a partner about your experience.
experience
.Write a description of your experience in your
notebook.
.Share your experience with the whole group.
Prefixes and Suffixes
My
y mother g
generally
y offers g
good
advices/advice.
I am learning to manage/manager my time.
My actions/actors tell a lot about me as a
p
person.
My
y coach is an admirable/admire p
person.
Who do you admire?
My mother is a person whom I really admire! I
can go to her whenever I need advice. She is teaching
me how to manage my allowance and to save some
money I would like to be able to buy a new action
money.
movie. If I learn to manage my spending, I should be
able
bl tto save more money. Then
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bl tto bbuy th
thatt
new action movie when it is released.
Making Inferences
My friend really likes the action in the new movie
Transformers Why do you think he likes it?
Transformers.
The boy ran to get the ball player
player’ss autograph.
Why do you think he admired the player?
The man ignored the doctor’s advice and ended up
in the hospital. What do you think the doctor’s
advice
d i
was?
?
The lioness crouched in the bushes,
bushes watching the
deer graze. How do you think the deer will manage
to get away?
How are the students motivated
to earn millions?
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?
Each student is given the opportunity to
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earn checks by…
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Reading a word
Writing a word (in sentence or paragraph)
Hearing a word spoken by teacher
Speaking
p
g the word correctly
y in context
Sample Student Check
Writing
Pay
t the
to
th order
d off
Listening/Speaking
Reading
$10,000.00
Ten Thousand and 00/100 …….…………………...…...…..dollars
For _____________
Signed_____________________
0631002 8 0098
063100278:
009876004352:
60043 2 1233
Extension Activities
•Game Show
•Games
Games
•Pictionary
•Guess
G
the
th word
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(Password
d Pl
Plus style)
t l )
•Jenga
•Matching word to definition
•Battleship
•Technology
•Close
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Pro b
by C
Crick
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Software
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•Classroom Performance System by e-Instruction
Thanks, Dad!
"Save your money!" That was good ______
my father gave me. I ______ him for helping me to
remember
b tto save my money. I hope
h
I can ______ to
t
save enough to buy the new Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtle ______ figures
g
for my
y nephews
p
for
Christmas. I would also like to have enough to
purchase my mother an _________ necklace I found
at Macy
Macy'ss.
exquisite
manage
admire
advice
action
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