Given a category and think of the word that will give the most points.
E.g. Plants - Venus fly trap
The amount of words a child knows on school entry predicts their long term reading achievement
A comprehensive vocab program
1. Building and foster word consciousness
2. Teach word learning strategies
3. Teach individual words
4. Plan for and encourage independent reading.
Word consciousness
Adopt a word
- Working in a small group with a word - adopt a word for a period of time - 3 weeks
- Could be a topic specific word or tier 2 words - long term use word (Tier 2 word list in resource)
- Sheena Cameron website - child friend academic word list
- Students choose a word
- Diorama to introduce the word
- presentation to explain their word
- make a advertisement using drama
- word jar
- Vocab charades with the word jar
- Fridge word - oral language book (home learning task)
Great website: wordplays.com
How many words you can make out of a given word - great spelling task for top kids
QR codes link to word play sites within the oral language book.
Words as an image - Ji Lee - not safe to show the class
Website that shows a whole bunch of different words as images
Students create an image using a give word for them.
Kinetic typography - inspire o.k to show a class
Playing with Words
Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards
Great book for idioms
Runny Babbit By shel silverstein
Wuzzles - wordsandnotesandcords.blogspot.co.nz
Finding unknown words
- Reading resource - 20 most common prefixes and suffixes
- oral language book - looking at Greek and latin orgin of words eg 'logy' zooology, arceology eg.
Stop the bus
Bored panda - dangerous journeys to school
Verb Adverb Adjective
Balancing Bravely
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Teach individual Words
Tier words are the most important to learn
1.Read the word within the text, emphasizing a new word
2. students say the word
3. provide student friend;y definition
4. explain the meaning to a partner
5. repeat the word
Explain the word don't get them to guess all the time.
Dictionary definitions 63% of sentences were judge to be odd. (Miller and Gildea 1985)
Visuwords website - visual dictionary
Word hippo - online dictionary
Planned and incidental word teaching
- Student friendly definition with words that we come across in the shared story
Planned
- Get students to identify tricky words
- Teacher identifies 4 words and complete table
- word match - match word with definition
- Define it from oral language book
- Partner idea - 'piercing' student reads out the meaning
- Students copy the word
- teacher explains meaning
- students take notes and draw a picture
- students make up a sentence using the new word
Incorporating new vocabulary into writing
Aim to regularly teach a new word in a writing lesson
Can you include 'menacing' in your moment in time
Tweet the meaning
- Can you write the definition using only 140 characters?
- Meet with a partner and combine the definition
- Meet as a 4 and come up with a combined definition
Word sorts
- Open word sorts - beginning of the unit, give the words and get the students to sort them into groups they think they go to.
- Closed word sorts 4 columns - 6 words in each columns
Brainstorm it - sort it - from oral language book
Three level thinking frame
- Understanding information
- Digging Deeper
- New Understanding
Highlight unknown words and where meaning breaks down for them. - Word Consciousness
Bring words to life 2nd edition - Isabel L Beck
Teaching Vocabulary in all Classes
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