Essential strategies for teaching vocabulary

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

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Word CloudsWORDLE TAGXEDOIMAGE CHEF TAGULWORD CLOUDSWORD CLOUD GENERATOR

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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

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