Idea Completions
Have students complete sentence stems which
require them to draw on their knowledge of the word’s
meaning to explain a situation. To illustrate, for the
word virtuoso, students might be asked to complete the
sentence, “The audience asked the virtuoso to play
another piece of music because…”
Similarly, for the word alarmed, the following
prompt might be used: “The accountant was alarmed
when she opened the safe because…”