Classroom Resource

Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

2, 3, 4, 5

Overview

The goal of this lesson is to introduce the academic vocabulary of economics and financial literacy through children's books. In Babymouse: Cupcake Tycoon, there are a variety of economics and financial literacy vocabulary words embedded in the text, which involve a school fundraiser. Through a think-aloud read-aloud, the lesson will illustrate how to introduce key economic concepts/vocabulary through the story. Students use puppets to conduct interviews about economics vocabulary in the story and then create vocabulary cards. As a final project, they create video posters, using either PowerPoint or Glogster.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.6

Use visual aids and technology in oral presentations to present key ideas and details about a text or conversation, and add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Visual aids
  • Technology
  • Key ideas
  • Key details
  • Visual displays
  • Recount of experiences
  • Clarify
  • Oral presentations

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Visual aids or technology can help others better understand the key ideas and details of an oral presentation.
  • Drawings and visual displays can help clarify thoughts, feelings, and ideas when presenting orally.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Orally describe key ideas and details about a text, conversation, or personal experience.
  • Use visual aids and technology in oral presentations to present key ideas and details about a text or conversation.
  • Add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences to clarify thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Visual aids and technology can help others understand the key ideas and details of their oral presentations.
  • They can clarify their thoughts, feelings, and ideas by including drawings or other visual displays in their oral presentations.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.18

Use dictionary definitions and information found within the text to help determine meaning of unfamiliar or multi-meaning words.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Dictionary definitions
  • Unfamiliar
  • Multi-meaning words

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Words can have more than one meaning.
  • Dictionaries are reference books that can be used to find the meaning of unknown or multi-meaning words.
  • Context clues can help determine the meaning of unknown or multi-meaning words.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use dictionaries (or glossaries in the back of their books) to locate the meanings of unfamiliar or multi-meaning words.
  • Use words within a text to help them determine the meaning of an unfamiliar or multi-meaning words.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • The text around a word can provide clues about the meaning of an unfamiliar or multi-meaning word.
  • They can use reference books, such as a dictionary, to help them determine the meaning of an unknown or multi-meaning word.
  • To comprehend a text, they must use strategies to understand the meaning of vocabulary words.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.19

Identify new vocabulary and the use of word meanings in text to establish real-life connections.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Vocabulary
  • Establish
  • Real-life connections

Knowledge

Students know:
  • New vocabulary they encounter in text can be used in their real life.
  • Real life means situations that they have experienced or will experience.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify vocabulary words learned through reading text and connect them to something they have personally experienced.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Making real-life connections to new vocabulary words, helps them move the new words to their long-term memory, becoming part of their "ready to use" vocabulary.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.3.R3

Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, reading, and writing will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.13

Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary to make connections to previously learned words and relate new words to background knowledge.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Utilize
  • Academic vocabulary
  • Content-specific vocabulary
  • Grade-level vocabulary
  • Connections
  • Relating
  • Background knowledge

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary words.
  • Content-specific vocabulary refers to words used in different subjects learned in school such as reading, math, social studies, science.
  • New vocabulary words can be learned by relating them to previously learned words and background knowledge.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use new academic, content-specific vocabulary by making connections to previously learned words.
  • Use new academic, content-specific vocabulary by relating new words to background knowledge.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Academic, content-specific vocabulary words are used in different school subjects, like reading, math, social studies, and science.
  • They can learn new vocabulary words by making connections to previously learned words or their background knowledge.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.R2

Use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar spoken or written words.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Context clues
  • Determine
  • Unfamiliar spoken words
  • Unfamiliar written words

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Context clues in speech or text can provide the meaning of unfamiliar words.
  • There are different types of context clues, including: inference/general clues, definition/explanation clues, restatement/synonym clues, and contrast/antonym clues.
  • Context clues in text are often indicated by punctuation marks.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in speech.
  • Use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • An author or a speaker use context clues to explain the meaning of unusual words or academic, domain-specific vocabulary.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.9

Accurately interpret general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

Unpacked Content

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Vocabulary

  • Interpret
  • General academic vocabulary
  • Domain-specific vocabulary

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Academic vocabulary is language that is more formal than spoken language.
  • Domain-specific vocabulary refers to words that are used specifically in school subject areas, like math, science, and social studies.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Correctly identify the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are multiple strategies they can use to interpret the meaning of academic and domain-specific vocabulary, including using context clues in the text, their background knowledge, the morphological structure of the word, and outside resources.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 5

ELA21.5.R2

Use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar spoken or written words.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.5.R2

Vocabulary

  • Context clues
  • Determine
  • Unfamiliar spoken words
  • Unfamiliar written words

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Context clues in speech or text can provide the meaning of unfamiliar words.
  • There are different types of context clues, including: inference/general clues, definition/explanation clues, restatement/synonym clues, and contrast/antonym clues.
  • Context clues in text are often indicated by punctuation marks.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in speech.
  • Use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words in text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • An author or a speaker use context clues to explain the meaning of unusual words or academic, domain-specific vocabulary.
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