Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip

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 Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

This unit is designed to help students learn new vocabulary by taking them on virtual adventures that replicate field trips. Students begin by accessing prior knowledge through an initial writing activity. Ensuing discussions, read-alouds, and the creation of a picture dictionary "take students to the moon," while further building their vocabulary. Students use an online Alphabet Organizer to complete a final writing activity, which they compare to the writing they did during the first session. Although this lesson focuses on the moon, its activities can be used with any content area topic.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
2. Actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge needed to be successful as they learn to read and, later, read to learn.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
21. Use new and previously-taught vocabulary to produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.

a. Use previously-taught vocabulary words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives, in speaking and writing.

b. Use new words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to text.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
22. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds of informational texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through drawing or writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
2. Actively participate in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions to build background knowledge and learn how oral reading should sound.

Examples: read-alouds, oral dramatic activities
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
11. Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, make connections to previously learned words, and relate new words to background knowledge.

a. Make connections to a word's structure using knowledge of phonology, morphology, and orthography of the word to aid learning.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
17. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through drawing and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
15. Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, making connections to previously learned words and relating new words to background knowledge.

a. Make connections to a word's structure using knowledge of phonology, morphology, and orthography of the word to aid learning.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
22. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds and independent reading of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through writing.
Tags: adventures, Alphabet organizer, collaboration, dictionary, discussions, moon, read alouds, space, virtual field trips, vocabulary, writing
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