Hi! Rick Wormeli has a good article entitled "Teaching Vocabulary : Work Smarter, Not Harder" in the current issue of "Middle Ground" from NMSA. He lists and explains 10 principles: 1. Spend time reading 2. Teach words for their own sake, in addition to the terms associated with units of study 3. Build integration, repetition, and meaningful use into vocabulary instruction 4. Do not make the first night's vocabulary assignment looking up the definitions in the dictionary and using them properly in a sentence 5. Don't rely purely on defining the words or asking students to figure out a word using context cues 6. Help students relate words to their world 7. Start teaching students Latin and Greek prefixes and roots 8. Teach students a lexicon for studying vocabulary 9. Spend considerable time helping students with subtle difference analysis 10. Express great enthusiasm for words and their wise use
I know we've been talking vocabulary instruction lately, but I'm wondering what practices you have found successful which relate to these ten principles or if there are any questions you might have surrounding any of these principles. 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
