Vocabulary Parade

           This lesson plan is based on the picture book Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier. In the book, the main character, Sage, redeems herself after a hilarious vocabulary snafu with an award-winning costume in her school’s vocabulary parade. The lesson gives you step by step directions on how to plan a vocabulary parade in your class.

        I love this lesson it seems like such a fun way to teach vocabulary. The lesson is also a creative way to help ELL students relate in a real world way with the meaning of words. The lesson could also be used as an Alternative Assessment. You could differentiate the lesson for different levels of learners by how hard or easy the word is that you give the student. One important thing to think about is to try and give less financially impactful to create word costumes to families that may struggle financially. The alterative to this lesson that you could use with older students is instead of costumes do hats. I really loved the idea of the lesson and will defiantly be using it in my classroom someday.

 

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