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Vocabulary

What is Vocabulary?

The words that make up oral and written communication.

Why Is It Important?

It is important because vocabulary is a key part in comprehension and so students need to understand what the words mean in order to understand the reading.

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How Many?

If a student struggles in sight word vocabulary, this remediation would work for them. With this activity, students will be able to physically write down the words they are struggling with and then apply them by putting the word into the sentence. In doing so, they will practice pronouncing their sight words or high-frequency words. Also this game can be extremely personalized, because the students will be creating the cards themselves.

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Activity Directions:

  1. Have students write the words they need to practice on cards

  2. Each word should have at least four cards

  3. Students play “How Many?”

  4. The word cards are shuffled and the deck is placed face down

  5. Students take turns rolling a die to determine how many word cards are drawn from the deck

  6. Each word is pronounced, placed on the table, and used in a sentence. 

  7. Any words pronounced incorrectly are returned to the bottom of the deck.

  8. The student with the most words wins.

Envelope Alphabet

If a student struggles in the alphabet organization, this remediation would work for them. With this activity, students will be able to have separate envelopes with different words and students would have to put them in alphabetic order. The higher the list number, the harder the words. In doing so, they will practice their alphabetic order by organizing words into different areas.

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Activity Directions:

  1. Each envelope has 10 to 15 index cards to be arranged in ABC order.

  2. Each student takes an envelope, removes the cards, and places them in the correct alphabetical order.

  3. The answers could be in the envelope or on the back of each list

  4. Each list gets harder

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Reference

Johns, J. L. (2019). Chapter 3: Phonics, Decoding, and
           Word Recognition. In Improving Reading:     
           Strategies, Resources, and Common Core 
           Connections (p. 205). Dubuque, IA: Kendall
           Hunt Publishing Company.

Reference

Johns, J. L. (2019). Chapter 3: Phonics, Decoding, and
           Word Recognition. In Improving Reading:     
           Strategies, Resources, and Common Core 
           Connections (p. 214). Dubuque, IA: Kendall
           Hunt Publishing Company.

Things To Remember:

Advice #1

Encourage the use of vocabulary words that are listed on the word wall! Several times a day, refer to it. 

Advice #2

Encourage studennts to watch for how vocabulary sentences are used in classroom conversation through Vocabulary Bingo.

Advice #3

Select books that students have read or heard with vocabulary words that students have probably learned.

Advice #4

Use vocabulary words as sentence starts and leave the rest blank for students to complete.

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