Samples: rBook Vocab Routine

Denice Rodaniche

Scholastic Implementation Manager

Tips• This routine is DIFFERENT from how you may have taught vocabulary in

the past. It begins with heavy teacher modeling, or “I Do”. This includes providing several examples and the meaning before asking for student examples. It NEVER includes asking for a student to guess or supply the meaning, nor does it have students look up the word in the glossary. (See the Red Routines tab in the back of the TG for complete details.)

• Remember that this routine should have lots of student interaction, including “whole group response”, meaning that students will respond chorally when prompted. That might mean, for example, repeating something after the teacher, or waiting for a signal to say something all together.

• Before the lesson begins, assign students in pairs (one and two). Frequently give those pairs a quick assignment, like generating at least 2 ideas that might fit in a sentence starter blank, or read the sentence starter to each other, completing the blank with something that they think fits. (It is always good to make these very open-ended, when possible, so that many answers could fit.)

• Remember to use an electronic timer! Tell them they have 30 seconds, for example, to share sentences with their partner, or one minute (or two) to write and complete the sentence. This easily raises accountability, as long as they know you stick to it, and don’t keep giving them more time.

• anguish (noun) • Rate: 1 2 3 4• Example: When someone loses a loved one they might feel

terrible anguish.• Meaning: feeling of extreme sadness• Example: My family felt anguish over the loss of our treasured family

photo albums and heirlooms due to the flood.

Discuss with your partner and be ready to share out:1. What might cause a teenager to feel anguish? Why?• ______ might cause a teenager to feel anguish because _______.

Choose sentence #1 above, #2 below, or an example of your choice:2. Describe something that caused you to experience anguish when you

were a child.• When I was a child, I experienced anguish when ____________.

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• abandon (verb) • Rate: 1 2 3 4• Example: When we couldn’t fix our flat tire, we had to abandon our

car to go find help in the next town.• Meaning: To leave behind• Example: I didn’t really want to abandon the box of my favorite comics

when we moved, but we couldn’t fit it in the trunk of our car!

Discuss with your partner and be ready to share out:1. What might cause people to abandon their homes? Explain.• _______ might cause people to abandon their homes because

__________.

Choose sentence #1 above, #2 below, or an example of your choice:2. Why might someone have to abandon a pet?• Someone might have to abandon their pet because ____________.

Target Word border (noun) 1 2 3

Mrs. Rodaniche’s son Andrew lives in San Diego, which is near the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Target Word border (noun) 1 2 3

Meaning: The line that divides two countries or places

Target Word border (noun) Meaning: The line that divides two countries or places Examples:

1. Sometimes a river will be the ______ between two countries.

2. When there are not enough jobs, sometimes citizens will cross over the ___________ into another country to find work.

Target Word border (noun) Meaning: The line that divides two countries or places Examples:

Choose either of the last two for example in rBook

I would know if I crossed a border into another country because ________________.

The river that lies on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania is the _________ River.