The Discovery Box

This daily activity will be sure to increase your students’ vocabulary in no time. For each student, create a blank book.

You can easily do this by stapling 26 blank pages of paper between two pieces of colorful cardstock. Instruct students to label each page in their booklet in alphabetical order.

a few times a week, have students search at home for a new or interesting word. Instruct students to cut this word out (it can be from a cereal box, the newspaper, an old magazine) and glue it to an index card.

Then, the following day, students bring in their cards and place it into the “Discovery Box.”

At some point in the day, randomly call upon a student to choose one card from the box and write the word and its definition on the board for his/her classmates to write into their booklets. Continue this process throughout the school year.