CH. 9 WK

Vocabulary


Vocabulary is very important in learning, but I don't think that is it taught very well in the classroom. Too many times I have found teachers giving the students a list of words on monday and then giving them a test on friday. I was victim of this method throughout my educational career. I can say from personal experience that, if I studied at all, I would memorize them and then forget them over the weekend. I think that an effective way of teaching vocabulary is having a word wall in your classroom. This way they are constantly seeing the word and the meaning, but to ensure that the students really are learning I would give out a ticket to a student who uses the word during the week in the correct way. At the end of the week I would have the students turn in their tickets that they received and then I would have a drawing for a prize. These prizes could be a bag of chips, free bathroom pass, or something else, but I think students would actually be able to learn the true meaning of the words. Throughout the week I would be using some of the stratgies in the book such as, teaching students to use context clues, to ensure that everyone is learning!