A Fresh Look at Teaching Vocabulary
PRESENT THE NEW WORDS
Using visual images
Using gestures and actions
Showing lexical relations
Words in context
Predicting
Other techniques
Use Comics to Teach Context CluesMAKE BELIEFS COMICSMARVEL COMICSCOMICS HEAD COMICS & CARTOONS BITSTRIPS
HELP STUDENTS REMEMBER THE
NEW WORDS
Independent word-learning strategies
Word-consciousness & word play activities to motivate & enrich learning
Learning with friends
Reading & Writing Activities
Let’s give an example!To Procrastinate1-Give examples, ask questions, use visuals to elicit the meaning from the students.
2- Elicit a student-friendly definition (so, what does it mean? How can you describe a procrastinator?)
3- Engage actively with the word (Questions, choices, example-non example, act-outs, synonyms-antonyms, prefixes, suffixes )
4- Say the word again (What is the word that decsribes a student who hasn’t started doing the project that was assigned 2 weeks ago and is due for tomorrow?)
5-Ask students to construct a picture, graphic, symbol representing the term.
Using Memorizing Games and Activities
• giving directions• picture dictation• labeling words• searching words• sequencing words• guessing words• eliminating words• classifying words• matching words
Using Review Games• Word Search Games • Picture Labeling • Bingo• Dominoes • Puzzles• Charts or Surveys for their peers• Crosswords
Vocabulary Spinner
http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com.tr/2012/05/word-wheel.html
Flyswatter Vocabulary
http://tinyurl.com/hrcwdua
http://tinyurl.com/q5kasxt
Word CloudsWORDLE TAGXEDOIMAGE CHEF TAGULWORD CLOUDSWORD CLOUD GENERATOR
http://tinyurl.com/q9aqxsjhttp://tinyurl.com/note6f7
LEARNING WITH FRIENDS
Students can: • practice words with a classmate or in a group• teach a word to a member of the family or peer• make and play word games with friends• peer test
MAKE SURE STUDENTS MAKE THE NEW WORDS
THEIR OWN
Vocabulary record system
Personalizing the new words
VOCABULARY WORD CARDS
Graphic OrganizersWord clusters, mindmaps, and other organizers are used to make connections between the new word and other words and situations to recall the word.
By: Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D. Source: Learning Unlimited
CREATIVE WRITING USING TARGET VOCABULARY
https://www.pinterest.com/shine58/creative-writing-ideas/
http://fhsdvocabulary.pbworks.com/w/page/44174640/Francis%20Howell%20Vocabulary%20Instruction