Teach vocabulary

What are your methods for teaching vocabulary? Drills? Flashcards? Yuck! Boring! While these can certainly be effective, they can be a quick way to lose your student’s attention if you spend too much…

Over the last few months I've discovered interactive notebooks and folding resources - and I've fallen hard for them! I love the ways you can combine folding, colouring, words and ideas to create an interactive resource which helps students to explore and engage with the topic they are learning.&

A Picture Dictionary is such an important vocabulary support for newcomer and beginning English Language Learners! This teaching blog post gives tips and ideas for how to use a picture dictionary with students and reasons why they are such a helpful resource for elementary and middle school ESL students. Use for reading and writing with ELLs.

Discover 10 creative ways to teach vocabulary with fun, hands-on, and effective strategies to help students connect with and retain new words.

Teach vocabulary with trading cards! Students write the vocabulary word and draw a picture on the front. On the back they write "stats" about the word like its definition or how to use it in a sentence.

Find 23 ready to use, effective vocabulary activities your students will love, by The Teacher Next Door!

Teaching vocabulary to your elementary students can be fun and engaging with these 5 ways to review vocabulary words! All of these vocabulary activities are great for collaborative purposes and geared towards 2nd graders through 5th graders. Use these vocabulary ideas for your word work, literacy centers, small group instruction, or even whole group activities. Try these out in your room today!

Trying to find a meaningful vocabulary teaching approach? Find fresh, powerful, and inspiring ideas to revolutionize the way you teach words!

Make word study fun and engaging for your students.

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Games are a great way to help with vocabulary development. Here are three classroom vocabulary games you can use with any word list. #classroomvocabularygames #vocabularygames #iheartteachingelementary

These fun games can be played with any vocabulary words. They are best played with academic words that have already been taught to students. They work well as review and enrichment activities. They help students build connections between the words (which research shows leads to better

Make vocabulary instruction and practice fun for students with these 10 Teaching Vocabulary Activities Ideas!

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Looking for an easy and fun teaching idea for your students to practice their vocabulary words? My students loved it and never realized they were learning! This strategy can work for any grade, from kindergarten to high school!

Teaching vocabulary to your gifted students is something you ay have pushed aside, but it is SO important for them! Read this second post in my series about how I teach vocabulary from start to finish!