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Conference.
Yet sadly, many teachers continue this practice. After you read this post,
please promise me that you will shift to new thinking
and banish the practice of
looking up words and writing sentences with them in future lessons. Deal? Instead, let
me share techniques you can choose as an alternative.
Learners’ vocabulary development happens with indirect exposure through
conversation, listening to adults read to them, daily experiences, and from reading on
their own. However, explicit vocabulary instruction
leads to greater word learning,
increased reading comprehension, and increased word usage
in conversation and in
print. The more often a learner sees, hears, and works with the vocabulary words, the
better he/she understands the words' meanings.
Making visual aids to demonstrate meaning
When you share
new words with your students, demonstrate the meaning with a
piece of clip art or photo that explains the context of the word. This is especially
important with words the learner will be encountering often and those that we want
students to utilize in their speaking and writing. (Tier 2 words). Here's an example
of what it would look like:
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Then, have your students make their own drawing of the word. If you do these on
index cards, you might punch a hole in the corner
and put them on a ring for
categorizing, vocabulary games, and other usage activities. Remember...repeated
exposures to the words are necessary for the words to be fully understood.
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