This particular article describes a model that one teacher uses in her third grade classroom to explicitly teach vocabulary. There was some discussion on whether it would be better to allow students to incidentally learn new words or whether it should be through focused vocabulary instruction. Several of the activities described in the article are things that I have used myself or can adapt and use such as the tic-tac-toe activity using new and previous vocabulary words and illustrating vocabulary words. I like the idea of having the word box that students can contribute to, allowing students to help pick out the words they will learn about. This particular model seems easy to set up, maintain, and use in a classroom. I can see it being beneficial to student learning and vocabulary development.
References:
Feezell, G. (2012). Robust Vocabulary Instruction In A Readers' Workshop. The Reading Teacher 66
(3), 233-237.
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