It is helpful to preview and review vocabulary students see in non-fiction text. Students can create a visual vocabulary spider map to highlight key terms relating to COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu.
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PANDEMIC
VACCINE
SOCIAL DISTANCING
6 FEET
(adj.): (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
(n) a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
(n): The practice of encouraging people to minimize contact by banning large groups or maintaining a minimum distance of 6 feet between people.