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Create Vocabulary Webs

Tags

ELA: Reading All Ages Strategy

Skills

Flexible Thinking Verbal Reasoning Verbal Memory

Create Vocabulary Webs

If your student needs help understanding and remembering key vocabulary and their verbal reasoning is stronger than their verbal memory

Instruction And Practice

  1. Objective: Students will create vocabulary webs to help them learn new words based on similarities and differences to known words and concepts.
  2. Model for the class how to create a web, starting with the word at the center and then connecting all the key information out from the word. Connecting information can include the word definition, part of speech, synonyms, antonyms, key related words, as well as alternate meanings.
  3. Teacher Notes: Vocabulary webs can be hand-drawn or there are plenty of visual organizers. Since webs take time to create, reserve vocabulary webs for the most important vocabulary words. Elementary students who are learning synonyms, antonyms and parts of speech might use webs for a variety of words. Older students might reserve webs for nonfiction vocabulary or the application of word roots.

*print* Student Activity: Create A Vocabulary Web

  1. Write the vocabulary word in the center of the paper
  2. Drawing a line out from the word, connect key pieces of information about that word: a) Word definition b) part of speech c) synonyms d) key related words e) other meanings

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

While creating vocabulary webs can be time consuming, they can enable students to connect new information to their existing knowledge, building on what they know and strengthening their retention. They also provide a structured way for students to think through an unfamiliar word and figure out the meaning.

Best-suited for students with weaker: Long-term Memory, Working Memory (Source: Digital Promise Learner Variability Project)