Re: Teaching vocabulary By teach & learn

Isabel Beck also says students need repeated exposure and gives varied ways to provide exposure depending on the grade level in her book Building Robust Vocabularies. She concentrates on Tier II words which

are meatier words. Two other things that are important are building a word conscious environment and making connections. What a difference I have seen in classrooms where teachers hook kids onto learning new words rather than skipping over them as they read or are heard. We did a building initiative as well where each class collected awesome words in a box (or jar) all

week and then submitted a special one to be posted on an all school bulletin board. We had kids finding words in their reading, on TV, etc.

Research also shows that words are easier to learn when they are connected to a concept. It gives something for them to hook the word onto rather than isolated words. I guess that's why thematic teaching is so important.

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