This activity provides a great opportunity to collaborate with an art teacher or media specialist. Costume design can be an elaborate affair or something put together within a class period. Gather resources for costume planning and making.Students’ vocabulary parade might be shared with other classes at the same grade level, with the entire school, with family members, or with local community members. Determine best method of sharing the project, depending upon your school, time of year, and expectations.The list can serve as a reference during the brainstorming activity in Session One. Based on that unit, prepare a list of vocabulary words students are likely to suggest. Choose a unit of study for students’ vocabulary study that is rich in challenging, complex vocabulary.Read Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster (Voyager Books, 2007) by Debra Frasier prior to sharing it with the class.Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information). Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.ġ2. Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.ġ1. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.Ĩ. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).Ħ. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.

Miss Alaineus by Debra Frasier