Sunday, October 23, 2011
Ten Important Words
My favorite article this week was Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge. The article gave some great ideas to use in the classroom to support students word knowledge. I really enjoyed the idea of students identifying 10, 5, or 3 important words in the text as they read and writing them on a post it to create a class graph. It's a great way for students to learn the words they choose as well as other words they might not have choose. I also enjoyed the idea of giving groups of students a particular target word and using colored card that read prompts that ask them to think about and use in various ways the words that are on the class bar graph. Students get great feedback through this activity as they learn through other students and gives the teacher an idea if they understand the word or not. If the student misuses the word, it enables the teacher to clarify the word's meaning and appropriate use immediately. This activity is something I would definitely want to implement into my classroom! It's an engaging activity that encourages group collaboration as well as promotes students word knowledge and in turn comprehension! Has anyone seen a similar strategy/activity used in a classroom?
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I talked to Kelsey in our class and she said when she observed in a classroom, the teacher used "popcorn words" and had a list of words for the children to look out for when they read a story and to pick them out when they found them. This might be a great way to implement the 10 words strategy if the teacher already knows of 10 difficult words in the text that she wants to make sure and call attention to!
ReplyDeleteOne strategy I have seen used is giving students stickies/postit notes to place on pages where difficult or new words have been identified. Instead of focusing on making a list while reading, marking the page with a sticky and then going back after reading and as a group compile a list of these new words.
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