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Excellent Vocabulary Tool
A teacher friend sent me a link to Quizlet. I’ve been using ever since. According to its website: Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 2.5 million FREE sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Flash Vocabulary Game
A quick, fun and engaging activity to have students learn and practice using vocabulary is a game called Flash Vocabulary. In this game students are paired up. Using a document camera or overhead projector, teacher places a vocabulary words down, … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Flash Vocabulary Game
A quick, fun and engaging activity to have students learn and practice using vocabulary is a game called Flash Vocabulary. In this game students are paired up. Using a document camera or overhead projector, teacher places a vocabulary words down, … Continue reading
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Tagged academic vocabulary, building student Vocabulary, building students’ vocabulary, characterictics of effective Vocabulary instruction, education games, Effective Vocabulary Instruction, effective Vocabulary instructional strategy, jeopardy, jeopardy for education, jeopardy teaching, jeopardy vocabulary, linguistic, marzano, Marzano Characteritics of Effective Direct Vocabulary, non-linguistic, self-awareness chart, students Vocabulary understanding, teaching academic vocabulary, teaching vocabulary, vocab, vocab crosswords, vocab war, Vocabulary, vocabulary crosswords, Vocabulary fun, Vocabulary games, Vocabulary graphic organizers, Vocabulary instructional strategies, Vocabulary intruction, Vocabulary learning, vocabulary self-awareness chart, Vocabulary strategies, vocabulary war, word meaning
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Jeopardy Game
Make vocabulary fun and the students will be more likely to learn it. A great way to deliver this fun is through Jeopardy. Please see the link below for grade-level and subject area Jeopardy games. If none of the listed … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Vocabulary Self-Awareness Chart
Allowing students to use descriptions composed of everyday language is important in effective vocabulary comprehension and retention. One way to do this is through a vocabulary self-awareness chart. Teachers then can revisit this chart throughout the unit of study, creating … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Students Develop Crossword Puzzles
Another way I have my students interact with vocabulary is creating crossword puzzles. This can be done by hand or computer-generated. Students write the definitions and construct their very own crossword puzzles. Typically, I ask students to include prior vocabulary … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Vocab War
Learning games can be another venue to increase students’ vocabulary comprehension. I have used this learning game with 5th graders and, currently, with seniors in high school. The benefits of this game are that it’s hands-on, engaging, and everyone is … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Strategy – Vocab War
Learning games can be another venue to increase students’ vocabulary comprehension. I have used this learning game with 5th graders and, currently, with seniors in high school. The benefits of this game are that it’s hands-on, engaging, and everyone is … Continue reading
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Tagged academic vocabulary, building student Vocabulary, building students' vocabulary, characterictics of effective Vocabulary instruction, Effective Vocabulary Instruction, effective Vocabulary instructional strategy, linguistic, marzano, Marzano Characteritics of Effective Direct Vocabulary I, non-linguistic, students Vocabulary understanding, teaching academic vocabulary, teaching vocabulary, vocab, vocab war, Vocabulary, Vocabulary fun, Vocabulary games, Vocabulary graphic organizers, Vocabulary instructional strategies, Vocabulary intruction, Vocabulary learning, Vocabulary strategies, vocabulary war, word meaning
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Effective Vocabulary Instruction – Quizlet
Quizlet is an EXCELLENT resource for teaching vocabulary. Students can play, interface with vocab in different ways, learn word parts, and much more… One more thing…not a strategy, but a tool for vocabulary. Have you discovered Quizlet yet? It’s a website … Continue reading
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Effective Vocabulary Instruction – Cartoon Vocabulary and Discussion
I’d like to add to what Teri said. I also like students to do what I call “cartoon vocabulary.” We discuss the word in context. Then the students fold their paper in half twice (once “hamburger bun” style and once “hotdog bun” style). … Continue reading
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