Teaching Vocabulary- Week #3

TEACHING VOCABULARY

I think like all things in teaching , we must make lessons meaningful and engaging for students and teaching vocabulary isn't the exception! Learning vocabulary is important and teachers need to make sure students have different ways of learning.  There are many ideas online for teaching students vocabulary. I was particularly interested in teaching vocabulary to elementary aged students, as this is my area of certification. Some ideas that I liked were...

• Guess My Word-      students give clues and the definition of words and other students can guess                                   the word

• Act It Out-                students take turns acting out a word and the other students guess the                                             definition 

• Vocabulary Roll-      students roll a dice and the dice has instructions on each side, for example,                                     define the word, give a synonym for the word, etc.

• Word Scramble-       students unscramble words to match the definition

• Memory Game-        make cards with the vocabulary word and the definitions and play like you                                   would play memory