Q4 Week 3

Welcome to Week 3!  This week we will focus on an important reading skill that will support our review push in the coming weeks.  

Why is teaching context clues important?  
Teaching context clues can increase a student's vocabulary & reading comprehension. Studies show that a strong vocabulary correlates with strong reading comprehension.  

Use the resources below to enhance your present teaching of context clues.  Flip your classroom and allow students to view the videos before a mini-lesson or as a review.  

Context Clues:

Check out these ideas to use in your classroom to support context clues from The Classroom Nook!

The Five Types of Context Clues: 

Here is a video to use with your students when explaining different types of context clues.

I love this video for practicing context clues.  It would work perfectly in the younger grades.  

Be sure to visit my last post on Vocabulary Acquisition to see more ideas on building vocabulary!
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Q4 Week 2

Welcome to Q4 Week 2!  This week let's talk vocabulary acquisition! The process of learning & understanding new vocabulary to help support both oral and written comprehension. 

 Students ages 5-10 learn approximately 8 new words a day!

What are the key features of VA?

• Identifying keywords and their meanings using text features 
• Focusing on understanding & using vocabulary rather than simply defining words 
• Emphasizing connections to prior knowledge, other vocabulary words, and concepts
• Differentiating between scientific meanings and everyday use
• Facilitating differentiated instruction

Help your students understand the 3 Tiers of Vocabulary Acquisition! 

Tier 1: Everyday Words

Tier 2: Words that they are only exposed to a few times

Tier 3: Subject and content-specific words 

Simple Ways to support VA in the classroom!

Find some simple ways to support vocabulary instruction in the classroom from Edutopia!  I love the idea of embedding them into our morning message. 

How to support VA in Google Slides?
Students can create digital word collages to demonstrate their vocabulary acquisition.  Click the image below to see some examples from Literacy World Wide!

What to practice oral language to reinforce vocabulary?  

Try Chat Stations: Cult of Pedagogy!

Can someone please do a VOCABULARY PARADE?