AUGUSTA COUNTY SCHOOLS
CURRICULUM MAP
READING
Submitted by Stump Elementary
CONTENT 4.4 The student will expand vocabulary when reading.
TOPIC: Reading 4.4. a- Students will use context to clarify meanings of unfamiliar words.
CONTENT
What do your students need to
KNOW?
DEMONSTRATORS
What do your students need to be able to
DO?
ASSESSMENT
How will you assess what your students
ALREADY KNOW, and assess WHAT
THEY’VE LEARNED?
ACTIVITIES
HOW will you teach it?
All students should use the
Use context to clarify meanings of
content and structure of a
unfamiliar words.
sentence, paragraph, or reading
Use knowledge of roots, affixes,
selection to help determine the
synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.
meaning of an unfamiliar word.
Use word-reference materials, including
Assessment for expanding vocabulary
ongoing throughout the year. It can
be done informally through reading
conferences and conversations with
students.
The teacher will read Lewis Carroll's
non-sense poem, "Jabberwocky" to the
students without illustrations. After the
poem is read several times, the teacher
will pass out a copy of the poem with
flagged nonsense words to clarify the
meaning. Students will also be given a
chart divided into 3 columns. The first
column will have the nonsense word
listed. The second column will be their
guess as to what the non sense word
means, and the third column will be used
to record the text they used to clarify the
meaning of the nonsense word.
the glossary, dictionary and thesaurus.
All students should use a
Develop vocabulary by listening to and
variety of strategies and word
reading a variety of texts.
recognition skills to support
Use vocabulary from other content
comprehension.
areas.
All students should know the type
** See Curriculum Framework Pg.7.**
of information found in word
reference materials.
DIFFERENTIATION
How will you meet the needs of all
students?
*Model this lesson with
another poem that doesn't
use non-sense words.
*Provide a different poem that
doesn't use nonsense
words
but just unfamiliar words.
RESOURCES
*Copies of Lewis Carroll's poem
"Jabberwocky."
*Context Clue Chart
TEACHER NOTES:
This is a challenging lesson on many levels. The greatest challenge is not only
the nature of the writing, but the fact that most unfamiliar words in this poem
are non-sense words that have been created by the author. This is a lesson that
should be done, mostly, as a whole group activity. It requires classroom
discussion to be led by the teacher, as well as modeling the strategy for the first
word or two.
Once this lesson is mastered, it can be used as a writing prompt as well. Students
can write their own non-sense words with the challenge of providing
appropriate context clues to give their readers clues to what their made up
words mean.
It is also fun to not only discuss the meaning of the unknown words, but discuss
meaning of the poem, and how the main idea of the poem is understood despite
the nonsense words.
JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought -So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
What I think this word means…
toves
gimble
frumious
vorpal
The clues I used to help me….
What I think the word means….
uffish
tulgey
frabjous
The clues I used to help me….
Callay