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How to build children's vocabulary

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building students' vocabulary

How old are the kids? What kinds of ideas are suggested?

This article tells about 10 free internet tools that can be used to build vocabulary skills. These tools can be used in a variety of classrooms for any grade level.

I absolutely love the "combine vocabulary learning and social service" part of this article. The website, freerice.com, is an amazing way to motivate the student to practice their vocabulary. Every time the user gets a vocabulary definition correct the website donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Programme! I remember using this years ago when someone posted it to a social media site, and I stayed on it until I'd gotten 600 pieces of rice donated. I definitely want to do this as a fun activity with my student. Thanks for posting this!

Excellent choice. Hoping folks use these tips and try them out when they are applicable.

This article is about word study and different techniques that a teacher can use with a student who need help in this particular area.

This article gave great examples of sorting the different types of words into categories. For example, when two words that sound the same have different meanings (their and there). It also expresses different spelling patterns that the children will encounter. Words that end in "or," "er," and "ar." This article explains that studying words of more than one syllable offers opportunities to build awareness of how language is used in narrative writing.

This article focuses on the different levels of vocabulary and what they mean. Also, the article talks about what effective vocabulary instruction is and how it should be used. It gives many different ideas for strategies that could be used to help teach vocabulary to students such as graphic organizers, academic vocabulary journals and quick writes. The article gives examples for both elementary and secondary students.

You might include the title to pique other students' interests...hard to make a decision about it if the link is all we see. Your description is very helpful.

"How to Act Out a Story" Strategies dealing with the benefits of action out a story

I like this idea of acting out the story. It would be fun for students while also getting them to think about details from the story. I think it would be a great activity to work on comprehension.

I really like this idea! I think it would be a good way to get kids moving around and excited about reading! Also a good alternative to assessing comprehension.

There are an estimated 88,500 word families in printed school English. So how do we, as literacy teachers, determine the most valuable, appropriate vocabulary for each student?

Seems impossible, doesn't it? This is often why folks who argue for a holistic or sociocultural approach to teaching and learning start with what the child knows and build from there.

This is an article on a literature review about Reading Recovery and how the theories behind the program can inform classroom instruction.