Turn the pupil into the teacher to help your learners pick up and retain vocabulary from Ordinary People by Judith Guest. Each individual selects a word, studies it in depth, and then teaches their word to the rest of the class, one classmate at a time.

Concepts

Vocabulary, oral presentations, ordinary people, judith guest

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english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• While this is designed with words from the first six chapters of the book, you could easily do a second round with additional words (or with any other vocabulary list, for that matter)

Classroom Considerations

• Note that only one of the links to Greek and Latin root resources functions
• According to the directions, you will need to provide each learner with an index card
• You may wish to white out the one line meant for teachers that is present on the student handout

Pros

• A student instruction page and vocabulary word list are provided
• Provides a low pressure way for learners to orally share their vocabulary word with every other individual in class

Cons

• Keep an eye out for any spelling and/or usage errors