Bill I wonder if we could adapt Atwell's personal spelling words technique for vocabulary. I needed to revisit this for my students as well and wonder if we can brainstorm this. For Atwell, Kids generate a list from their writing in which they have misspelled a word. She suggests five words per week that they focus on learning. For vocab our students could cross content areas and bring in the vocab they need from math, science, SS and ELA! There is a buddy system assessment piece in which students give and correct each others words moving them to a list that shows they have demonstrated how to spell ( in our case they show the understand the word meanings) This may prove to be the tricky part. I have a context organizer created by Randi Allen that I adapted for taking words from a text and learning what it means. I'll email you a copy if you like. But with Atwell every few weeks she has the kids revisit the "learned list" and they may have to move a word back for re-learning... On Jan 20, 2008 8:48 PM, Bill IVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >
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