Grade 2 New Vocabulary in Class Support

This past week the Grade 2 classroom teachers and I collaboratively continued to introduce our students to new vocabulary of our unit about the urban environment and ways of modifying it. We also worked on unpacking the central idea with our children and on paraphrasing the challenging lexical features.

One of the successful vocabulary engagements was when our students had to mind map all the targeted vocabulary (and also just the words that they knew about the city environment). After that, they had to sort all the words from their mind maps into six categories - Infrastructure, recreational, services, cultural, religious, transportation. In some classes, the students worked with their mind maps, and in others, cards with the words were on the carpet for them to pick up and write them out under the correct category heading.

Sorriaj is busy sorting out his words.

Kim Veng is consulting with one of his friends.