What, in your opinion, are the five most effective techniques for teaching vocabulary? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each technique?
What will be an ideal response?
Possible techniques include the following:
• Brainstorming: Activates prior knowledge and helps students organize new concepts. Teacher can evaluate background knowledge and provide clarification.
• Graphic organizers: Show relationships and make connections among words
• Images: Translating words into images involves cognitive processing and careful consideration of the word's meaning.
• Possible Sentences & Predict-O-Grams: Considers how words might function in a text and how they might be related.
• Simulation: Builds concrete, hands-on, conceptual understanding.
• Word Sorts: Fosters seeing likenesses and differences and categorizing words.
• Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy: Encourages word consciousness, use of context, and dictionary. Good technique for acquiring vocabulary.
Wide Reading: Provides opportunities to use context and meet words in multiple contexts. Best approach for acquiring vocabulary. Children's periodicals can be especially effective for building vocabulary.
• Reading Aloud: Good way to introduce students to words that they might not encounter in their own reading. Discussing new words can be a natural part of the read-aloud.
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