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6 Ways to Practice Words to Expand Vocabulary
Listen in and learn how these students are held accountable for expanding their vocabulary.
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Launching CAFE Vocabulary Strategies
Get resources and tips for boosting student vocabulary.
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Hollie Gebhardt Models Tune In to Interesting Words
Learn how to keep your lessons short and focused.
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Expanding Vocabulary–Falling in Love with Words
Chandra Reiners and her sixth-grade students are falling in love with their word wall words.
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Expanding Vocabulary—Can We Talk About These Words?
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.
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Chunk Letters and Sounds Together and Use Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of a Word
Breaking big words into smaller chunks is a great strategy for all our readers. Here's what it looked like in this classroom.
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Expanding Vocabulary While Keeping the Teacher Informed
Let's eavesdrop on this conference with a strong reader who is working to expand his vocabulary, using new words in his writing.
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Expanding Vocabulary with a 5th Grader
Gail and Rachel Stephens come up with a plan to help Sinclair continue expanding her vocabulary.
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2 Strategies for Expanding Vocabulary in Writing and Speaking
This video models supporting children as they make the leap from collecting words to using them in their every day talking and writing.
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Four Strategies to Start The Year
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.
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Ask Someone to Define the Word for You–A Last Resort Strategy
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.
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Expanding Vocabulary While Using a High Level of Accountability with an ELL Student
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.
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Introducing Use the Dictionary and Demonstrating the Secret for Success
In this Vocabulary lesson, Christie introduces Using the Dictonary, some strategies to be successful, and connects their learning to their familiar Word Collector.
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Library Lion By Michelle Knudsen
We are always looking for a book that models what we are teaching students. Thank you Trish, for introducing us to this voracious lion.
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Expanding Vocabulary Together—Collecting Words
This chart is easy to make and a wonderful way to build new vocabulary together.
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Tune In to Interesting Words During Read Alouds
We are never too young or too old to expand our vocabularies. This strategy works for everyone.
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