#7 Children's Literature Review
#3 Teaching Vocabulary
Fun Way to Teach Vocabulary! #1 Vocabulary Day! At first this might sound crazy; however, imagine a day where students could choose anything and be anything! That is vocabulary day at its finest. Each student will select a word, for my example I will use decadent. The student will then be asked to find the meaning of the word. On vocabulary day students will come to school dressed as their word or in a costume that allows us to guess their word. Students will also be asked to turn in their word with the definition and their interpretation for vocabulary day. If my word was decedent, I would come to school in a crazy costume like a pizza costume and allow students to guess before providing them my word and definition. #2 Game Show Learning vocabulary consists of so much more than simply sitting behind a dictionary. In order for students to truly learn a word, we must teach them how to use it. Students should be able to define the word, find a synonym or antonym, or
Love the presentation! How did you get it to copy like that?
ReplyDeleteI remember reading The Babe and I when I was a kid. Loved that book!
Honestly, I snipped each slide on my Powerpoint and just copied and pasted. It was kind of a pain, but I love the way it turned out!
DeleteI recently purchased "'The Water Princess." I loved the illustrations and the word imagery that was in the book. I have not read "This is the Rope" but I really like Jacqueline Woodson as an author and recently put two of her books on my book list for my classroom.
ReplyDeleteAlways forget to write my name ~Rebekah Hedgepath
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