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Using the vocabulary pyramid

Using the vocabulary pyramid. The aim of the vocabulary triangle is to: Ensure spelling of keywords is correct; Ensure that students understand the meaning of keywords; Ensure that students use keywords effectively in lessons.

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Using the vocabulary pyramid

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  1. Using the vocabulary pyramid • The aim of the vocabulary triangle is to: • Ensure spelling of keywords is correct; • Ensure that students understand the meaning of keywords; • Ensure that students use keywords effectively in lessons. Evidence of VCOP must be demonstrated in every lesson and the vocabulary pyramid is the easiest to embed. So, how can we do it?

  2. Students add keywords to their pyramid throughout the lessons… Vocabulary Pyramid

  3. …or we provide a triangle for specific topics…

  4. …and then can be inserted onto your worksheets…

  5. 8. Pact 12. Stalin 11. Rigged 16. War on two fronts 6. Depression 9. Polish Corridor 15. Treaty of Versailles 2. Aggressive 7. Non-aggression 10. Rearmament 14. Territory …or can be linked to definitions… 1. Abyssinia 3. Anschluss 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Demilitarised 13. Sudetenland Causes of World War 2 Vocabulary Pyramid

  6. Using the vocabulary pyramid Once the process of completing the triangle is in place, they should then have tasks which can be used to use the vocabulary (and any other elements of the other triangles).

  7. Recap What defensive features do you remember from last lesson? 1. Can you describe the castle using three words from the toprow of the vocabulary triangle? 2. Can you explain how well the castle could have defended itself using three words from the middle row of the vocabulary triangle? 3. Can you judge how well this castle would have defended itself using three words from the bottom row of the vocabulary triangle using a dictionary to help you find definitions of any words that you do not know? EXT: Can you use a thesaurus to find synonyms of some of the words that you have used?

  8. V- Weapons C - because O – Having decided P - ? Was it easy to attack a castle? Yes No

  9. Plenary Summarise what you have learnt in this lesson using at least one word from each row of the vocabulary triangle.

  10. VCOP Dictionary race roll- call barracks sanitation Who can find the definitions first? quarantine contagious concentration camp selection process condemned registration accommodation

  11. Write down the definitions of the 5 hardest words. rain Level 4 liquid drops What are these words describing? land snow gas water cycle sea air condensation Level 5 sleet vapour rivers hail Students use these words to establish what they think the learning objectives and outcomes are. evaporation droplets hydrological cycle Level 6 stores transpiration percolates flows surface water transfer groundwater precipitation

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