Vocabulary Development
ComicLife.com
These Comic Life sheets were created by Bradley Webster from Southwestern Alaska. This looks like a fun way to include students in learning vocabulary by letting them act out the words.
How I will use this activity:
- Allow students to create these pages for weekly vocabulary words
- Hang in the classroom to share with visitors and reinforce their learning
- Create actions to help with retention
- Allow students to fill in blank bubbles as a review
How I will use this activity:
- Allow students to create these pages for weekly vocabulary words
- Hang in the classroom to share with visitors and reinforce their learning
- Create actions to help with retention
- Allow students to fill in blank bubbles as a review
Total Physical Response
Research shows that adding actions and movement to learning helps to trigger recollection of the information and facilitates quicker learning. This is an older video, but it demonstrates ways to engage students in learning.
How I will use this activity:
- introducing new vocabulary
- teaching spatial words eg. "Sit on your chair. Stand behind your chair. Move between the chairs..."
- bring objects that associate with new vocabulary for students to hold
How I will use this activity:
- introducing new vocabulary
- teaching spatial words eg. "Sit on your chair. Stand behind your chair. Move between the chairs..."
- bring objects that associate with new vocabulary for students to hold
Students K through adulthood are able to make great gains by listening to large quantities of books being read aloud. This aids fluency in reading, vocabulary growth, and improved writing skills.
How I will use this activity:
- Build background knowledge for vocabulary
- Build vocabulary by hearing words in context
- Predict what the story will be about
- Create story webs
- Identify characters, setting, main idea
- Create graphic organizers from nonfiction texts
How I will use this activity:
- Build background knowledge for vocabulary
- Build vocabulary by hearing words in context
- Predict what the story will be about
- Create story webs
- Identify characters, setting, main idea
- Create graphic organizers from nonfiction texts
With limited time in school, it makes sense to spend time learning the words used most often in English. These lists identify the most common words used in English and they are listed in order beginning with the most frequently used word. Word lists are listed in appropriate grade levels for parents and teachers to help their students to stay on track.
How I will use this activity:
- Reading flashcards
- Word Walls
- Spelling words
- Use in creating pattern books
- Students use words they do not know in personal dictionaries
- Journal writing
How I will use this activity:
- Reading flashcards
- Word Walls
- Spelling words
- Use in creating pattern books
- Students use words they do not know in personal dictionaries
- Journal writing