One my colleagues e-mailed me a link to a site called "Weboword - Vocabulary Visually!" today. Essentially, this site is updated with adorable pictures that visually describe a word through a stick-figure cartoon. (What a great companion to Salinger's Book entitled Well-Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme!) There are also puzzles that accompany each week's worth of… Continue reading Visual Vocab.
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Well-Defined
Salinger's book Well Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme provides me with a way to teach my students vocabulary and poetry simultaneously. I'm passionate about both, which is why I was so excited to get my hands on this book yesterday. Each poem contains a title (the word) and a definition at the bottom of each page,… Continue reading Well-Defined
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Vocabulary
Michael F. Graves's Book The Vocabulary Book: Learning & Instruction asserts that increasing a child's vocabulary makes him/her a stronger writer (43). He states: The goal is to get students to realize that the words they use in their writing are very important, that the words they use will affect both clarity of what they… Continue reading Vocabulary
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Spelling Sites
I tend not to focus much on spelling when I write about the teaching of writing. However, I'm well-aware that using conventions properly is extremely important. Each week, my students have eight personal words, which are drawn from their own writing and/or high-frequency words they misspell on assessments I give. [These are in addition to… Continue reading Spelling Sites
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Sketchcast
My mother-in-law, who is a Literacy Coach, emailed me this evening to inform me about a resource called Sketchcast. I went online and checked it out tonight to start thinking of ways I could use it in my classroom. I thought of vocabulary instruction immediately, which is how I came up with this. Have you… Continue reading Sketchcast
