Vocabulary Development
When students receive intense instruction in phonological skills and in letter-sound recognition, the activity in the left temporal and parietal areas appear to normalize and reading development progresses.
Outline:
1.Begin lesson by asking students to explain how they go about learning new vocabulary.
2.Explain the concept of "short term" and "long term" learning and the importance of
contextual clues for effective "long term" memorization.
3.Present the idea of creating vocabulary charts to help students learn specific content
related vocabulary.
4.Distribute a copy of the example vocabulary chart.
5.Divide students into small groups asking them to create vocabulary charts based on a particular subject area. Example: airplane, sports, the museum, etc.
6.Students create vocabulary charts in small groups.
No comments:
Post a Comment