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Start-Up Activity
Ask for a volunteer to read page 405 aloud. Then discuss with students how reading helps build vocabulary.
Afterward, select one word to analyze, as in the example that follows:
- microcosm: Our little school is a microcosm of the entire country.
Have a volunteer define the word microcosm and explain the clues in the sentence that helped him or her define it. Then as a class explore its word parts:
- micro means “small”
- cosm means “world”
So a microcosm is a "small world." The sentence means that the school is a miniature version of the country.
Let students know that this chapter will teach them vocabulary strategies like these.
Think About It
“Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.”
—David Crystal
Start-Up Activity
Ask for a volunteer to read page 405 aloud. Then discuss with students how reading helps build vocabulary.
Afterward, select one word to analyze, as in the example that follows:
- microcosm: Our little school is a microcosm of the entire country.
Have a volunteer define the word microcosm and explain the clues in the sentence that helped him or her define it. Then as a class explore its word parts:
- micro means “small”
- cosm means “world”
So a microcosm is a "small world." The sentence means that the school is a miniature version of the country.
Let students know that this chapter will teach them vocabulary strategies like these.
Think About It
“Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.”
—David Crystal