Definition+Web+(think,+pair,+share+variation)

Title: Definition Web

I learned about this strategy at the Literacy Training on 10/20/2009

Steps:
 * 1) Students get a sheet of paper and fold it about 3 inches from the bottom, creating a little flap.
 * 2) On the larger section of the paper, students write the thing to be defined in the middle.
 * 3) Each student then adds to the web, offering definitions or examples to begin creating the web.
 * 4) Then students meet with one other person, someone outside of their group, to share items from their definition web. The goal is that students will share their ideas with each other and create more detailed definition webs.
 * 5) After meeting with another person, students go back to their seats and on the flap they write a definition of the item in the middle of the web--using the information/ideas they gathered on the web.
 * 6) Students share their definitions with the class.
 * 7) Possible follow-up: Homework Assignment [[file:Vocabulary Word Map.pdf]]