Plan how to teach the key vocabulary for a unit
Selects the academic vocabulary that matters most for a unit and plans explicit teaching, practice, and review.
The prompt
Help me plan vocabulary instruction for an upcoming unit.
Subject, grade, and unit: [e.g. "5th grade science, ecosystems"]
Texts and materials students will read: [LIST OR PASTE EXCERPTS]
Words I'm considering: [LIST, or ask you to pull candidates from the text]
Students' language needs: [e.g. "a third are English learners", "strong readers but weak academic writing"]
Time available per day for vocabulary: [MINUTES]
Do the following:
1. Sort the words into: general academic words used across subjects (e.g. "analyze", "evidence"), domain-specific terms for this unit, and words not worth direct teaching. Pick 8-12 to teach explicitly and explain the choices.
2. For each chosen word: a student-friendly definition, an example sentence connected to the unit, a non-example, a visual or gesture idea, and related word forms (e.g. "predict, prediction, predictable").
3. Plan a teaching routine for introducing words (under 5 minutes per word).
4. Plan 5 practice activities across the unit that get students using the words in speaking and writing, not just matching definitions.
5. Add sentence frames for discussion and writing.
6. Include a quick review schedule and a short end-of-unit check that asks students to use the words in context.
Keep definitions accurate for the subject; mark any term where a simplified definition might create a misconception.
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What to fill in
- e.g. "5th grade science, ecosystems"
- LIST OR PASTE EXCERPTS
- LIST, or ask you to pull candidates from the text
- MINUTES
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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