Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Learning vocabulary
- How do students learn vocabulary?
- Most importantly: READING
- Wide-range of texts
- Book chosen by child
- Sustained silent reading
- What do teachers do?
- Highlight key new words before reading
- Read aloud/ think aloud
- Word study activities
- Word posters
- Word maps
Anmerkungen:
- Possible sentences
Anmerkungen:
- Students write possible sentences using vocabulary words and share with the class. After reading the text the students revise those that weren't accurate.
- Dramatising words
Anmerkungen:
- Word sorts
- Word chains
- Semantic feature analysis
Anmerkungen:
- examine features of the word according to distinguishing characteristics
- Word-learning strategies
- Context clues
- Analysing word parts
- Checking dictionary/ asking for help
- Four levels of word knowledge
Anmerkungen:
- Unknown word
Initial recognition
Partial word knowledge
Full word knowledge
- Struggling readers:
- word walls
- Explicit teaching
- Develop ability to figure out meaning of unfamiliar
words
- Word consciousness
Anmerkungen:
- Essential for vocabulary growth.
Students have these characteristics:
use words skilfully, understand meaning
aware of difference w=between social and academic language
understand the power of word choice
motivated to learn the meaning fo unfamiliar words
- Model interest and precise use
- Gather words from places they are being met
- Wordplay
Anmerkungen:
- riddles
jokes
puns
songs
poems
experimenting
- Word-study concepts
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Homonyms
- Figurative meanings