Week 5: Vocabulary Instruction. What strategies are being used to build student vocabulary?
My cooperating teacher does most of her vocabulary teaching during the middle of the week so I haven't directly seen it. However, I did ask her about teaching vocabulary and she said it is kind of up in the air because of the Common Core changes. She said that there are some words that they are supposed to teach the students but much of it is left up to teacher discretion.
When she does directly teach vocabulary, she will introduce the word, usually with an accompanying visual, and talk about it with the class until they come up with a definition together. Then they will write the word down along with the definition in their notebooks. From there they will draw about it to add a visual near the word.
Indirectly, some students gain more vocabulary skills during weekly spelling tests and practice and word work activities during Daily Five time.
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