Procedure Guide: PERIODICAL SEARCH

Purpose: To help students recognize and use appropriately a variety of words with similar meanings.

Preparation

• Using magazines and newspapers available in the school library, record all the words found that denote “saying” on a transparency, chalkboard, or chart paper; for example, decried, misspoke, ranted, avowed.
• Have the periodicals available to show the students.
• Determine a word for the students to research, possibly seeing would be a good place to start.

Before

• Explain the purpose for the activity.
• Demonstrate the activity, showing' students the list of words and the magazines and newspapers from which the words came. Ensure that all students know what is expected of them.

During

• Have students read periodicals to locate words that fall under the focus word category, “seeing”, or another word selected.

After

• After student pairs have compared the found words, have them compile a T-Chart of positive and negative words. ??????

Assessment

Number and accuracy of found words

Accuracy of T-Chart