I want to focus today on Developing Word Meaning Through
- Student Friendly Explanations
- Teacher-Created Contexts
- Active Engagement With Words
Using your text is a great way to introduce targeted words. After introducing each word you want students to:
- repeat the word after you
- give them a student-friendly explanation of the word
- actively engage students in the word through:
a. questions
b. making choices
c. finishing the idea- sentence starters
d. choose an example and non- example of the word
- repeat the word again
Here (above) is an example of how I introduced the word "bulge" to my students. You can download this document by clicking on either picture above. (d. is an example of "Finish the idea")
I found with my struggling readers and ESL students that making vocabulary word cards was helpful for them to have more in-depth word knowledge. Here are 2 examples below which are also included in the document with instructions.
Hopefully they will begin to see, hear, and use these words not just during reading time but beyond the classroom as well.
I hope you found some useful information and something new to try when teaching vocabulary.
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Thanks for all you do to make a difference for your students.
What is something you may try in your vocabulary instruction that I wrote about today?
Arlene, thanks so much for the useful information on vocabulary. This is definitely a post to pin!
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