Expand Vocabulary

6 Ways to Practice Words to Expand Vocabulary

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Listen in and learn how these students are held accountable for expanding their vocabulary.

Launching CAFE Vocabulary Strategies

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Get resources and tips for boosting student vocabulary.

Hollie Gebhardt Models Tune In to Interesting Words

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Learn how to keep your lessons short and focused.

The Interactive CAFE Menu

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This is one of the most helpful resources on our website.

Expanding Vocabulary–Falling in Love with Words

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Chandra Reiners and her sixth-grade students are falling in love with their word wall words.

Expanding Vocabulary—Can We Talk About These Words?

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This simple technique keeps everyone ready to tune in to interesting words and helps promote the idea that it really is fun to expand our vocabularies.

Chunk Letters and Sounds Together and Use Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of a Word

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Breaking big words into smaller chunks is a great strategy for all our readers. Here's what it looked like in this classroom.

Expanding Vocabulary While Keeping the Teacher Informed

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Let's eavesdrop on this conference with a strong reader who is working to expand his vocabulary, using new words in his writing.

Expanding Vocabulary with a 5th Grader

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Gail and Rachel Stephens come up with a plan to help Sinclair continue expanding her vocabulary.

2 Strategies for Expanding Vocabulary in Writing and Speaking

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This video models supporting children as they make the leap from collecting words to using them in their every day talking and writing.

Four Strategies to Start The Year

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Though groups vary from year to year, we've found these four strategies carry a lot of valuable weight, so we not only begin with them, we continue to reinforce them throughout the year.

Ask Someone to Define the Word for You–A Last Resort Strategy

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Janet models the vocabulary strategy of asking someone to define the word' in this whole class lesson. Find out why she tells the class this is a last resort strategy.

Expanding Vocabulary While Using a High Level of Accountability with an ELL Student

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With so many of us encountering a greater variety of languages in our classroom and students just beginning to aquire english, we want to focus on vocabuarly through comprehension.

Introducing Use the Dictionary and Demonstrating the Secret for Success

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In this Vocabulary lesson, Christie introduces Using the Dictonary, some strategies to be successful, and connects their learning to their familiar Word Collector.