Developing Vocabulary: Word Banks for Written Essays

1.  Go through your own clean drafts and circle the key words (subject matter, particularly nouns, I'm guessing) the essay is based upon.

2. In your book club, you are going to read...each other's essays to help each other come up with word banks.  The author will want to use these words banks for revising his or her essays this months, with the portfolio coming up.

• Use a dictionary (get a free app on your phone!)