1. From the expository material, select eight to fifteen terms that relate to the topic and that can be associated with each other in different ways. You can use almost any words or phrases, including names of people and places, concrete objects or abstract concepts, and dates or other numbers. Include some terms you think students will have heard before, even if they don’t know how to relate them to the topic, so that they will be able to generate some hypotheses. You don’t need to include all the important concepts because this activity is used primarily for introducing the lesson. As an example. The following is a set of terms selected by one teacher from an article about kangaroos that the students were going to read.