Koprowski - Ten Good Games for Recycling Vocabulary The Internet TESL Journal Mark Koprowskimarkkoprowski [at] yahoo.com Introduction Learning is remembering. If we respect this axiom, the review and recycling of new language items will be critical if they stand a chance of becoming readily accessible in long-term memory. Experts these days concur that learners actually need as many as 5 to 16 'meetings' with a new language item in a variety of contexts before it can be truly learned and activated for genuine use. 1. Divide the class into Teams A and B. Variation: To ensure a slightly quieter and less chaotic game, the teams can take it in turns. 2. Put the students into pairs or small groups. Variation: To add a spelling accuracy component, teams can also earn an extra point for each correctly spelt item. 3. Give the class a topic (e.g. food, clothes, animals, things in a kitchen) and ask them to stand up, in a circle if possible. 4. Divide the class into Teams A and B. 5. 6. Divide the class into Teams A and B. 7. 8. 10. Bibliography
Teachers Corner | Classroom Solutions | Vocabulary Activities Skits This is a good culminating activity, before a test, to bring together all the grammar, vocabulary, and cultural concepts in a lesson. Goal: To create and present a cohesive skit on a particular topic. Preparation: Create a rubric and a clear set of directions for the students. What's My Line? Goal: To react appropriately and creatively to unexpected statements and behaviors of a partner. Riddles This is a good activity to extend a reading assignment, to review vocabulary, or to practice a particular style of writing. Goal: To write a riddle in a particular writing style, using a specified set of vocabulary. Newspaper Kid's Page A long term project that explores a variety of topics. Goal: To create a children's newspaper page, published on a regular basis, each edition about a particular topic with a variety of activities to explain the topic. Graffiti This is a good activity for self-expression. Goal: To creatively express oneself verbally in a public forum.
6 Fun Ways to Teach Vocabulary Words in Your Classroom | Concordia University - Portland online Learning vocabulary may not be the most exciting thing students do school, but by using interesting and fun ways to teach vocabulary words, educators can increase student interest and help with both memorization and retention. Below are several techniques teachers should consider when teaching vocabulary. Drawing When it comes to teaching vocabulary words to younger students, there are plenty of easy options. Teachers who want to up the creativity level and really ingrain vocabulary into student’s minds might want to kick it up a notch by having students draw an image of each vocabulary word. Online Videos Another visual way to teach vocabulary is to find videos that showcase the words used in lesson. Brainstorm Vocabulary builds upon itself, and association with words that are already familiar to students is one of the most effective means of teaching students unfamiliar words. One method of associating vocabulary words with familiar words is to brainstorm with students. Act it Out
100 Words for Facial Expressions By Mark Nichol Face it — sometimes you must give your readers a countenance-based clue about what a character or a subject is feeling. First try conveying emotions indirectly or through dialogue, but if you must fall back on a descriptive term, try for precision: 1. Absent: preoccupied 2. Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 12 Responses to “100 Words for Facial Expressions” Lucia Hello!
Common Core Connections: Unpacking Academic Vocabulary Are you wondering where to begin to adopt the Common Core Vocabulary Standards? While there are many specific vocabulary standards clearly listed in the K-12 Language strand, it's helpful and important to look at Academic Vocabulary from the big picture view known as Shift 6. Let's unpack it. Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary Overview: Three Tiers of Vocabulary Tier 1:Words acquired through every day speech, usually learned in the early gradesTier 2:Academic words that appear across all types of text. Digital Tools to Help Identify Tier 2 Words Wordle Included in the collection of Common Core resources from EngageNY is a high school level exemplor lesson that devotes three days of instruction to carefully examining and interacting with the first three paragraphs of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The Find Tool Taking this one step further, I returned to the original text and used the Find Tool (control + f) to find occurances of the word, dedicated.
Expanding Vocabulary, One Schools Creative Idea (ARTICLE) Expanding Vocabulary, One School's Creative Idea (ARTICLE) We are always looking for clever and creative ideas for supporting children as they work on expanding their vocabulary. We received permission from Darlene, a literacy coach from Canandigua, New York, to share with you her school-wide vocabulary initiative call "Big Dog Words." The initiative is grounded in the research by Isabell Beck, PhD and her work with 'tier two' words. (you can read more about these types of vocabulary words in her book: Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction by Isabel L. Darlene writes, "Our "Big Dog" vocabulary words were taken school wide last year as I created 2 Big Dog words lists (one for primary and one for intermediate). This summer we even had a Big Dog Vocabulary Reading Challenge for students where they looked for their big dog words in the books they read. We do lots of other exciting things with our schoolwide Big Dog words. Darlene also gave us files to share with you:
Vocabulary Instructional Strategies: Marzano's 6-Step Process by Kimberly Tyson, Ph. D. Vocabulary and its strong relationship to comprehension has been verified over and over again. Effective vocabulary instruction is a key foundation to helping students acquire a wide and diverse vocabulary. Additionally, active engagement helps students take part in the learning process and begin to “own” the words and understand word meaning in multiple contexts. Teachers need a variety of instructional strategies for teaching vocabulary. Vocabulary Instructional Strategies: Marzano’s 6-Step Process The six-step process includes the following steps: For several years, I’ve been teaching this process to teachers and helping them implement it in their classrooms. Lessons Learned As a teacher, you can’t teach every word which is why students also need to be engaged in independent reading to build their vocabulary. The process works best when you don’t skip any steps. I find that teachers like to use this summary as they’re learning the six-steps process.
Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary Every Monday my seventh grade English teacher would have us copy a list of 25 words she'd written on the board. We'd then look up the dictionary definitions and copy those down. For homework, we'd re-write each word seven times. Good, now you know it. Copying definitions from the dictionary we would probably all agree is not an effective way to learn vocabulary. The truth is, and the research shows, students need multiple and various exposures to a word before they fully understand that word and can apply it. Selecting Words Ah, so many words, so little time. My first year teaching, before my tenth graders began reading Lord of the Flies, I went through every chapter and made lists of all the vocabulary words I thought they'd have trouble with, so that I could pre-teach them. When I looked at those long lists, I began to freak out. Then, here's what to do after the students pick their own words: Read through them all and use the results as a formative assessment. Ranking Words The Rationale
Commonly misspelled English words Commonly misspelled English words[1] (UK: misspelt words) are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. A selected list of common words is presented below, under Documented list of common misspellings. Although the word common is subjective depending on the situation, the focus is on general writing, rather than in a specific field. Within a particular field of study, such as computer graphics, other words might be more common for misspelling, such as "pixel" misspelled as "pixle" (or variants "cesium" and "caesium"). In general writing, some words are frequently misspelled, such as the incorrect spelling "concensus"[4] for "consensus"[5] found in numerous webpages.[4] Other common misspellings include "equiptment" (for "equipment"),[4][6] "independant" (for "independent"),[4][7] "readible" (for readable),[3][8] or "usible" (for usable or useable).[3][4][9][10] Unlimited misspellings[edit] Documented list of common misspellings[edit] A–B[edit] C–D[edit] E–H[edit]
15 Common College Grammar and Spelling Mistakes As midterms approach, many students are preparing for their first essays of the semester. By college, you should be able to write an effective essay, but we often make the same grammatical and spelling mistakes over and over again. I have no doubt you can use two/too/to and there/they’re/their correctly by now, but here are some more advanced common grammatical and spelling errors that make you look silly, both in your writing and speaking. Master them, and you are that much closer to an A+! Note: All of these definitions are my re-wordings of dictionaries and grammars. Then/Than: Although a common error in writing, this is a very grammar problem to solve. As midterms approach, many students are preparing for their first essays of the semester. Note: All of these definitions are my re-wordings of dictionaries and grammars. Then/Than: Although a common error in writing, this is a very grammar problem to solve.