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The Affix Garden
Students manipulate shapes (flower=prefix, stem=root word, suffix=leaf) to learn about affixes and create words.
Leveled Standards: l4a Workforce Readiness Skills: Reading and Writing
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Context Clues: Opening Night
Students read a short passage and use context clues to determine word meanings.
Leveled Standards: l4b Workforce Readiness Skills: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing
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Categorizing Activity
Teacher models identifying key words in a nonfiction reading and sorting them into categories; students read another short passage and apply their categorization skills.
Leveled Standards: l5a Workforce Readiness Skills: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Time, Task, and Resource Management
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Figurative Language: Tractors Take Over
Students analyze the figurative language in a short passage from Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
Leveled Standards: l5c Workforce Readiness Skills: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Time, Task, and Resource Management
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America’s Skilled Workers: Vocabulary
Students read opens in a new window “Filling America’s Need for Skilled Workers” Newsela article at an appropriate Lexile level and underline unknown words or new vocabulary, transitional words, and specific vocabulary words related to jobs and economics. Students then use opens in a new window Quizlet to create online vocabulary cards. Finally, students create individual resumés for Virginia job/job markets that they are interested in.
Leveled Standards: l6abcd Workforce Readiness Skills: Integrity, Self-representation, Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing, Lifelong Learning, Job Acquisition and Advancement, Internet Use and Security
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Job Search Vocabulary
Students research specific jobs and markets using opens in a new window Virginia Workforce Connection; they identify and define unknown words and use them in resumé building, cover letter writing, and mock interviewing.
Leveled Standards: l6e Workforce Readiness Skills: Integrity, Teamwork, Self-representation, Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing, Lifelong Learning, Job Acquisition and Advancement, Internet Use and Security