Hi, Have you read the book Bringing Words to Life by isabel Beck? It changed how I view vocab instruction. Isabel really stresses active engagement of learners and deep processing of vocab. She offers many strategies that are easy to adopt and that help students really think about words, rather than just regurgitate meanings. For example, if 2 of the words for the week were fraudulent and mundane, the students might be asked: Would you rather participate in a mundane or a fraudulent activity? Please explain your reasons. Hope this helps, Linda On Jan 20, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Bill IVEY wrote:
> Hi! > > I'm going to bring this up with my class tomorrow, but thought I'd > share > the question with you as well. My students told me on Friday that they > were getting tired of the same old vocabulary quiz format. This was a > welcome wake-up call in that I knew these quizzes were not the > strongest > part of my teaching, but it has been too easy to focus on improving > other > areas of my work I enjoy more than teaching vocabulary. So - time > to work > on this! > > I am committed to: > - weekly ten-word individual vocabulary lists generated by the kids > - taking approximately four days from the time the list is turned > in to > the date of the assessment > - the idea that the assessment must show recall of the meaning of > vocabulary words, not simply recognition > > What ideas do you all have?! > > Take care, > Bill Ivey > Stoneleigh-Burnham School > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http:// > literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
