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By kali

how you introduce the vocabulary, as its very meaningful by being part of the read aloud. Something cool I have seen someone do is they have a bean jar. Everytime a student finds one of their vocabulary words.on tv, in a
magazine, bullentin board, newspaper, etc they share it with the teacher and class and get to put a bean in the jar! When the jar is full they have a bean party. You can make the jar bigger each time.

Another cool research project your kids can do is Listening to vocabulary in other places. Say you have a cafeteria team, a bus team, a recess team. Each team writes down some interesting

vocab they hear in those places. Then you share and talk about it. Its a neat way to get kids to notice words and how we use them and if the words we use seem different in various locations.

There is lots of really great books about vocabulary right now, its a pretty hot topic!