Stretching Students' Vocabulary

by Bromley, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780439288392
• ISBN10: 0439288398
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

Research shows that a large vocabulary is vital for students' success with reading comprehension, standardized tests, and communication skills. Here, Karen Bromley offers a wealth of teacher-tested activities designed to help all learners master words for all subject areas. She devotes chapters to using context, using structure, and investigating words. The result? The most complete, useful guide to teaching vocabulary available. For use with Grades 3-8.

Author Biography

Karen Bromley is a member of the School of Education and Human Development at Binghamton University, where she teaches courses in literacy, children's literature, and language arts

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(1)
How Words Are Learned	6	(23)
Benefits of Word Learning	7	(1)
There Is No ``Best Method''	7	(2)
A Model for Word Learning	9	(2)
Guidelines for Teaching Vocabulary	11	(18)
Vocabulary Anchors	11	(1)
Picture Walk Words	12	(1)
Fix-Up Strategies	13	(1)
Think Aloud	13	(1)
Vo-back-ulary	14	(1)
Start Friday With a Song	15	(2)
Word Detectives	17	(2)
Characters from A-Z	19	(2)
Newspaper Know-How	21	(1)
ABC Books	22	(2)
SCUBA-D	24	(1)
Find & Photograph	24	(5)
Getting Started With Word Learning	29	(21)
Aaron's Word Knowledge	29	(2)
Pitfalls of Current Vocabulary Practice	31	(5)
Sound Vocabulary Teaching in Grades 3 to 8	36	(14)
S2-D2: Spell, Say, Define, Draw	37	(1)
Word Webs	38	(3)
Concept Definition Maps	41	(1)
Zooming In and Zooming Out	42	(1)
English Language Factoids	42	(2)
TPRS: Total Physical Response Storytelling	44	(2)
3-D Words	46	(1)
I Have...Who Has?	46	(1)
Interview a Word	47	(1)
TNT	48	(2)
Using Context to Learn Words	50	(20)
Making Meaning With Context	51	(1)
When Context Doesn't Help	52	(2)
Using Context Effectively	54	(16)
Pictures	54	(1)
Word Pictures	54	(1)
Key Symbols	55	(2)
Context Within Text	57	(1)
Excerpt Errors	57	(1)
Clue Words	58	(2)
Guessed Meanings	60	(1)
Guess and Check	61	(1)
Reciprocal Teaching	62	(1)
Word Hunt	63	(1)
Super Word Web	64	(1)
Context Beyond Text	65	(1)
Think Aloud	65	(1)
Jeopardy	65	(1)
Word Theater	66	(1)
Picture Dictionaries	67	(1)
Lift-the-Flap Words	68	(2)
Using Structure to Learn Words	70	(23)
Concepts About Words	71	(2)
Box-It	71	(1)
Graph and Guess	72	(1)
Letter Sounds and Clusters	73	(1)
Stretch-a-Word	73	(1)
Sound Boxes	73	(1)
Letter ``Chunks''	74	(9)
Flip Books	75	(1)
Clap-It	75	(1)
Spelling Cheerleading	76	(1)
Making Words	77	(1)
Making BIG Words	78	(3)
Word Sorts	81	(2)
Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes	83	(10)
Vocabulary Squares	85	(1)
A Root a Week	86	(2)
Hit or Miss	88	(1)
Rivet	89	(2)
Property Posters	91	(2)
Investigating Words	93	(25)
Wordplay	94	(3)
Wordplay Books	94	(1)
Grandiloquence	94	(2)
Fingerspelling	96	(1)
Using the Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Glossary	97	(12)
Pictionary-Dictionary	99	(1)
Word Books	100	(1)
College Words	100	(1)
Snapshot Alphabet	101	(1)
Web-a-Word	102	(5)
A Book Walk	107	(1)
A Glossary of Terms	108	(1)
Writing Poetry	109	(4)
Words That ``Sizzle''	109	(1)
Acrostic Poems	110	(1)
Synonym Poems	111	(1)
Opposite Poems	111	(1)
Operation Opposites	112	(1)
Using Literature	113	(3)
Vocabulary Connections	113	(1)
Said Is Dead!	114	(2)
Appendix
References	116	(2)
Reproducible Forms	118