Question

Students in an eighth-grade class are studying the Civil War in social studies. As part of this unit of study, they work together to create a semantic map of words associated with the Civil War, including words that they have recently learned (e. g., emancipation, habeas corpus). This activity is most likely to promote students' vocabulary development by :

a. showing them how context can be used to determine the meaning of new vocabulary.

b. helping them to categorize, visualize, and remember new vocabulary.

c. guiding them to discover the multiple meanings of new vocabulary.

d. providing them with fun experiences using the new vocabulary.

Answer 1

b. helping them to categorize, visualize, and remember new vocabulary.

Step-by-step explanation:

A semantic map is a map that helps visualizing words and their meaning. It is a fun way to group words that refers to a specific topic and by organizing them it helps you visualize it. This type of mapping has the strategy of categorizing words that are related to each other. It helps students promote their creativity, organization of thoughts and categorizing words. It also helps learning each word in a more visual way.

Answer 2

Answer is A.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this case the teacher is trying to hammer in the meaning of the new words. There is this belief that what you see , you can't actually forget. This means that, the students will quickly remember the place of the word on the map and eventually and promptly remembered the meaning of the particular word.

In this case, the semantic map will actually show them that context can be used for the meaning of words.