Take a look at Nancy Akhavan's Accelerated Vocabulary. It is very sequential, involves students in the activities and actually provides the overhead transparencies in an envelope in the back of the book. Of all the vocabulary programs/books that I've looked at over the years, I believe this is the most practical and sound. Amazon gives a way better description of it than I can here. It goes month by month and builds.
The problem with vocabulary is you can spend a lot of time "teaching" words that some kids already know or that kids only understand a certain level. Akhavan's book works. On Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at 06:48 PM, Joy wrote: > http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html Hope this > helps. Reading the book is helpful, but I'd like to observe this in > action. Anyone teaching in a school near Raleigh, NC that uses this? > > Another hard part for me is the sheer volume of words listed in the > book that relate to our goals and objectives. Then there are words in > addition to those listed that we encounter everyday! Sometimes it > feels like we are drowning in vocabulary! > > > > Joy/NC/4 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and > content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're > surfing. > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
