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Related: Vocabulary • Resources for Struggling Learners • VocabularyChoosing Words to Teach The teacher's edition for a fourth-grade anthology suggests teaching the following words before inviting students to read an excerpt from Charlotte's Web (White, 1952): comfort, cunning, endure, friendless, frolic, lonely, soaked, and stealthily. Why do you think these words were selected? One obvious reason for selecting words to teach is that students do not know the words. Although cunning, endure, frolic, and stealthily are probably unfamiliar to most fourth graders, comfort, friendless, lonely, and soaked are probably not.
Vocabulary Practice: Improv + Vocabulary = Kinesthetic Vocab Vim! I had grand aspirations of becoming an integral member of my college’s improv comedy troup[1] but I just cannot be funny so spontaneously and so continually. However, in the midst of tryouts, I learned a truly amazing warm-up that I adapted for vocabulary learning. Chaos and laughter will ensue if you try this kinesthetic exercise, and I guarantee that students will learn at least two vocabulary words fully –and upwards of 15 words in about 10-15 minutes of play. I hope you can get the last laugh! Steps: Assign each student in your class a different vocabulary word 1 min Have each student quickly learn the definition to his/her word 1 min Have students form one large circle so they are all side by side[2] 1 minStart with the first student and have him/her loudly say his/her vocabulary word along with a quick motion for the word (if the word is exhilarated, s/he could wave hands in the air while shouting “exhilarated!”)
Teaching Vocabulary Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and word meanings. As Steven Stahl (2005) puts it, "Vocabulary knowledge is knowledge; the knowledge of a word not only implies a definition, but also implies how that word fits into the world." Vocabulary knowledge is not something that can ever be fully mastered; it is something that expands and deepens over the course of a lifetime. Instruction in vocabulary involves far more than looking up words in a dictionary and using the words in a sentence. Vocabulary is acquired incidentally through indirect exposure to words and intentionally through explicit instruction in specific words and word-learning strategies.
Primary Ideas: 4 Pics 1 Word in Your Classroom On Saturday, I was sat near a child on a train who was playing 4 Pics 1 Word on his father's phone. Then, when I returned home, my other half was requesting help with a puzzle she was stuck on. In the way it often does, my mind struck up and started to ponder how this could be used in a classroom. Idea 1: Children create their own puzzles for others to try to solve. Possibly using homophones or where the same word (eg stamp or smoking) can fall into a number of different word types:
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom 60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom by Terry Heick Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, or the student credibility of a BYOD program. It may not be as forward-thinking as we’d like here at TeachThought, but Google Classroom excels in providing solutions for a broad swath of teachers who have a variety of expertise and comfort level with education technology. It also uses Google’s familiar template that many teachers have used for years. 8 Strategies for Teaching ELL Students Vocabulary Words Strategy 1: Label Objects As a classroom teacher, building leader or district administrator, you should first ensure that the spaces ELL students inhabit most frequently have many object labels. Whether these are classrooms or cafeterias, having signs that label each physical item in a room forces concrete connections through repeated exposure to the most basic of school concepts that native speakers often take for granted.
How to...plan for and teach tricky vocabulary Let’s start with a little activity. Please pick an article that you have read from any magazine (it could even be an old copy of TES!) First, do the unthinkable and deface the brain-bendingly good writing by blacking out about ten percent of the text. Now, read the article again. How does it feel to re-read this partial text?
teachthought Turning Mistakes Into Learning Opportunities by TeachThought Staff Today, if you asked me about my most memorable learning failures, I will tell you I am glad they happened. My errors have made me a better teacher and learner. I can now relate to students who have a difficult time understanding a concept. Teaching Strategies: 5 Ideas for Instructing Vocabulary Undoubtedly, you remember the teaching strategies your instructors used for vocabulary: You would copy down definitions into our notebooks, and then for homework, rewrite each word for what seemed like a million times. We can probably all agree that passive learning is not an effective teaching strategy to instruct vocabulary. Studies are now showing that students need multiple exposures to a word before they can fully understand it. They also need to learn new words in context, by reading.
Spending more time teaching vocab doesn't always work, study finds The new study, conducted by Ann Arthur and Dawn Davis, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in the US, found that there was no link between how much time pupils spent learning vocabulary and how much new vocabulary they learn. The academics observed 278 pupils, between the ages of 4 and 9, in 56 classrooms in four US states. They provided four, 30-minute vocabulary-booster sessions to a third of the children.
15 Rules of Netiquette for Online Discussion Boards [INFOGRAPHIC] “Netiquette” refers to rules of etiquette that apply to online communication. Follow these 15 rules of netiquette to make sure you sound respectful, polite, and knowledgeable when you post to your class’s online discussion boards. Before posting your question to a discussion board, check if anyone has asked it already and received a reply. Just as you wouldn’t repeat a topic of discussion right after it happened in real life, don’t do that in discussion boards either.Stay on topic – Don’t post irrelevant links, comments, thoughts, or pictures.Don’t type in ALL CAPS! If you do, it will look like you’re screaming.Don’t write anything that sounds angry or sarcastic, even as a joke, because without hearing your tone of voice, your peers might not realize you’re joking.Always remember to say “Please” and “Thank you” when soliciting help from your classmates.Respect the opinions of your classmates. RULE OF THUMB: If you wouldn’t do or say something in real life, don’t do it online either.
Strategies 1-3 - Vocabulary 1) Concept of definition map What is it? The combination of words with visual images. 'A generation of boys is being failed': Study finds gender divide in language skills when children start school Boys are almost twice as likely as girls to be falling behind in their language skills by the time they start school, putting their chances of being successful in life at risk, according to a report from the charity Save the Children. The study finds that in the past academic year alone, around 80,000 boys in England were behind in language and communication when they started school – equivalent to four boys in every Reception class. They often struggled to follow simple instructions or to speak a full sentence, it adds. Unless action is taken to ensure all children have access to good quality early years education, almost a million more young boys could be left behind in the next 10 years, the report warns. "The gender gap is well-documented," it says. "It has hardly changed for five-year-olds over the past decade, despite a dramatic improvement in overall results.
There are 15 strategies on the Learning Tasks website that can be used in classrooms. Frayer Model (which was used in our class on index cards) and Graffiti Vocabulary are strategies that I would like to use in my classroom. by lisabishop Jul 24
This site has 15 strategies for assisting students in their vocabulary acquisition. However, most relative to this study were two models that would assist in teaching emergent readers. The Frayer Model and Graffiti Vocabulary strategies incorporate constructive and visual aides for vocabulary acquisition. by cameronbourg Jul 24
There are a variety of strategies on this site. I like that there a lot of visual activities for visual learners. by msilvadun10 Jul 20
This site has a list of great vocab activities and there are also free downloads of the worksheets. by britto Jun 14
This is a great site for vocabulary activities, most of which only take about 15 minutes. by jortega Mar 13
This site has 15 strategies for teaching vocabulary. Number 6 is great- vocabulary cartoons - used to help visualize new words. by kjames15 Mar 11
On this particular website strategy 2, is graffiti vocabulary. Where the students create posters of words with 3 images, and a definaition in their own words, and together create a word wall. I think this would be great for grades1-3. by tgil Mar 9