A fresh look at teaching vocabulary

1. A Fresh Look at Teaching Vocabulary

2. PRESENT THE NEW WORDS
Using visual images
Using gestures
and actions
Showing lexical relations
Words in context
Predicting
Other techniques

3. Use Comics to Teach Context Clues
MAKE BELIEFS COMICS
MARVEL COMICS
COMICS HEAD
COMICS & CARTOONS
BITSTRIPS

4. HELP STUDENTS REMEMBER
THE NEW WORDS
Independent word-learning
strategies
Word-consciousness & word play
activities to motivate & enrich learning
Learning with friends
Reading & Writing
Activities

5. Let’s give an example!
To Procrastinate
1-Give examples, ask questions, use visuals to elicit the
meaning from the students.
2- Elicit a student-friendly definition (so, what does it
mean? How can you describe a procrastinator?)

6. 3- Engage actively with the word (Questions,
choices, example-non example, act-outs,
synonyms-antonyms, prefixes, suffixes )
4- Say the word again (What is the word that
decsribes a student who hasn’t started doing
the project that was assigned 2 weeks ago and is
due for tomorrow?)

7. 5-Ask students to construct a picture, graphic,
symbol representing the term.

8. Using Memorizing Games and
Activities
• giving directions
• picture dictation
• labeling words
• searching words
• sequencing words
• guessing words
• eliminating words
• classifying words
• matching words

9. Using Review Games
• Word Search Games
• Picture Labeling
• Bingo
• Dominoes
• Puzzles
• Charts or Surveys
for their peers
• Crosswords

10. Vocabulary Spinner
http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com.tr/2012/05/word-wheel.html

11. Flyswatter Vocabulary
http://tinyurl.com/hrcwdua
http://tinyurl.com/q5kasxt

12. Word Clouds
WORDLE
TAGXEDO
IMAGE CHEF
TAGUL
WORD CLOUDS
WORD CLOUD GENERATOR
http://tinyurl.com/q9aqxsj
http://tinyurl.com/note6f7

13. LEARNING WITH FRIENDS
Students can:
• practice words with a classmate or in a group
• teach a word to a member of the family or peer
• make and play word games with friends
• peer test

14. MAKE SURE STUDENTS MAKE THE NEW WORDS
THEIR OWN
Vocabulary record system
Personalizing the new words

15. VOCABULARY WORD CARDS

16. Graphic Organizers
Word clusters, mindmaps, and other organizers
are used to make connections between the new
word and other words and situations to recall
the word.

17. By: Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D. Source: Learning Unlimited

18. CREATIVE WRITING USING TARGET
VOCABULARY
https://www.pinterest.com/shine58/creative-
writing-ideas/

19. http://fhsdvocabulary.pbworks.com/w/page/44174640/Francis%20Howell%20Vocabulary%
20Instruction