My Librarian is a Camel Vocabulary

Activity Overview

In this activity, students demonstrate their understanding of vocabulary words using a Frayer Model. After choosing a word, students provide a definition, characteristics, examples (synonyms), and non-examples (antonyms) of the word. Students may be provided the vocabulary words, or they can use words that they have discovered through their reading of the text.

This example uses the word “nomad”.

• Definition: a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode, but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route
• Characteristics: "For centuries, people in Mongolia have led a nomadic lifestyle, moving across the steppe, a vast grass-covered plain, with their herds."
• Examples: wanderer, vagabond, migrant, pilgrim
• Non-Examples: homebody, dweller, inhabitant, resident, settler

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