Please bring 5 vocabulary words, your students will discover before June, to Friday's professional development opportunity. We will experience and apply various vocabulary strategies to these words. The goal will be to discuss strategies that lend themselves to the learning goal for the unit or daily lesson using those words.
"Students cannot read what they don't understand." Jim Burke, Reading Reminders: Tools Tips and Techniques
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'" Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
"Knowing what didn't work was easy. Finding and reading the research related to word knowledge was also not very difficult. Knowing how to implement that research in effective interesting ways turned out to be the hard part." Baumann and Kameenui. "Research on Vocabulary Instruction: Ode to Voltaire."
"According to some researchers (Baumann and Kameenui 1991) students in grades three totwelve acquire an average of threee thousand new words each year through osmosis or the context that their studies provides." Jim Burke, The English Teacher's Companion
Janet Allen's book, Words, Words, Words can be used in all content areas. It's a great resource and best of all it's free. In fact, my cousin Posterous, would chuckle if he knew I was including the link to the book. Check it out and give it a read if you are looking for strategies to strengthen vocabulary learning.
No comments:
Post a Comment