Vocabulary Strategy

Vocabulary is a huge piece to learning.  I pulled a few ideas from here and there, and below is something you might utilize in your classroom as a way to teach vocabulary or incorporate it into Daily 5.

Word Work Ideas

 

Students will make notecards to keep track of their vocabulary words. On one side, they write the word and on the back, they do a Word Storm. They keep all their notecards on a ring and add as they learn more information about the words. They can use their notecards to practice their words both reading and knowing what it means.

 

Word Storm

1. What is the word?

2. What does the word mean? (kid friendly, not dictionary copied)

3. What other words do you think of when you hear this word?

4. Name two people who would use this word.

5. What are other ways of saying the same thing?

6. Make up a sentence using the word. Your sentence should tell what the word means without

saying it directly.

 

Where you might see this going…

 

 Keep notecards also with morphographs they learn. The morphograph will go on the front of the card, the meaning will go on the back and then they can create a list of words that contain that morphograph and can continue to add as they read. Ex. Un would be on the front of the card…. Not would be on the back and then I would list words like unaware, unclean, unrest, unavailable. As students find words around the room and in books they are reading, they can add to their morphograph cards.  

 

As always, let me know if you have any questions and/or if you found this useful. Have a great day.

Jenna