While reading a text (story, novel, textbook, article, etc.), students record unfamiliar words and the sentence including the word. Then, students look up and write the unfamilar words' defintions.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
